20 Facts About Lilian Welsh

Lilian Welsh was an American physician, educator, suffragist, and advocate for women's health.

Lilian Welsh was on the faculty at Woman's College of Baltimore and an active member of National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Lilian Welsh was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, on March 6,1858, to Annie Eunice of Wrightsville and Thomas Lilian Welsh of Columbia.

Lilian Welsh was the fourth child and daughter in her family.

Lilian Welsh later rejoined the United States Army after the Battle of Fort Sumter to serve in the American Civil War.

Lilian Welsh eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general in 1863 before dying later that year of an illness during the Siege of Vicksburg.

Lilian Welsh graduated from Millersville State Normal School in 1875.

Lilian Welsh originally intended to become a physiological chemistry teacher, and attended University of Zurich from 1889 to 1890 to prepare for this.

Lilian Welsh never found a teaching position, and later became a physician at Norristown State Hospital in 1890.

Two years later, Lilian Welsh joined Sherwood, to establish a private practice in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1894, Lilian Welsh joined the faculty at Woman's College of Baltimore, later known as Goucher College, and served as the physician to students and as a professor of physiology and hygiene.

Lilian Welsh taught courses to women in personal and public health and physical exercise.

Lilian Welsh was known at the college as an outspoken advocate of women's health and hygiene.

In 1897, Lilian Welsh became the secretary of the Baltimore Association for the Promotion of the University Education of Women which advocated for women be accepted into the graduate school at Johns Hopkins University.

Around the turn of the century, Lilian Welsh was on a commission to fight tuberculosis was "at the forefront" of the Children's Welfare Movement.

Lilian Welsh was an active member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, participating in many street parades and she helped prepare the 1906 convention.

Lilian Welsh collaborated with Mary Garrett, Mary Sherwood, and Susan B Anthony on the "College Evening" event.

Lilian Welsh facilitated 100 Goucher students and suffragists to attend the Woman suffrage parade of 1913.

Lilian Welsh was a member of the Arundell Club and the Arundell Good Government Club.

Lilian Welsh was posthumously inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2017.