Women / Persons ~ P15475
Lillian D. Wald
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 10 March 1867 – 1 September 1940
Types:
- Medicine, nurse
- Reformer, nursing
- Reformer, political
Note: graduated from New York Hospital Training School for Nurses; founded Henry Street Settlement to treat poor immigrants on the east side of New York; advocated for nursing in public schools and was the first president of National Organization for Public Health Nursing; founding member of NAACP