Lillian Wald: Founder of Public Health Nursing
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Childhood


"In coming back to Rochester, I inevitably compare the physical advantages of the children who are brought to manhood and womanhood in this environment with those of the children with whom my lot in life has been cast these many years."


Speech from Lillian Wald for the New York State Suffrage Convention, October 15, 1914

Lillian Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Max Wald and Minnie Schwarz. Her family had emigrated from Europe after 1848 to create a better life for themselves. 
In 1878 the family moved to Rochester, New York, a place that she would eventually consider her hometown. 
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Max Wald, Lillian Wald's father
Source: R.L. Duffus, 1938
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Minnie Schwarz, Lillian Wald's mother
Source: R.L. Duffus, 1938

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Nursing
Kimberly Rae, Sirui Chen
Lillian Wald
Junior Division
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