{{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} thumb|Photo from ''Women of the West'' (1928) thumb|signature [[File:Maude Wilde (General Federation, 1917).png|thumb|Wilde at work at Mothers' Educational Center (1917)]] '''Maud Wilde''' ({{nee}}, '''Shaw'''; 1880–1965) was an American pediatrician and author. She founded the Mothers' Educational Center in Los Angeles, California.
==Early life and education== Lulu Maud (or Maude) Shaw was born in Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, 1880.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" /> Her parents were Sylvester Irving Shaw and Roza (Neely) Shaw. At the age of six months, the family relocated to Durango, Colorado.<ref name="sfgenealogy">{{cite book |title=California of the South |volume=IV |first=John Steven |last=McGroarty |pages=133–135 |publisher=Clarke Publ. |year=1933 |via=goldennuggetlibrary.sfgenealogy.org |url=https://goldennuggetlibrary.sfgenealogy.org/lawilde.htm |access-date=25 August 2024 |chapter=V. Gerald Iaquinta (transcriber)}}</ref>
She attended the schools of Durango, and then studied medicine and oral surgery at the University of Denver.<ref name="sfgenealogy" />
==Career== She moved to Mercur, Utah after graduation, where she married Thomas Bancroft Wilde (1865–1925), mayor of the city. Their children were Dorothy and Thomas B.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" /> After relocating to Philadelphia for five years, she studied psychology, obstetrics. and pediatrics.<ref name="sfgenealogy" />
In approximately 1912, she came to California.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" /> The following year, she became the chair of the Public Health department for the Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs.<ref name="sfgenealogy" /> In 1916, she founded Mothers' Educational Center in Los Angeles, California. She was the author of ''The Business of Being a Mother'' and ''The Story of Life''. Wilde was a member of the Woman's City Club and the University Book Club.<ref name="BinheimElvin1928">{{cite book |last1=Binheim |first1=Max |last2=Elvin |first2=Charles A. |title=Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America |date=1928 |publisher=Publishers Press |page=96 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women_of_the_West/California |access-date=25 August 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
==Death== Maud Wilde made her home in Los Angeles,<ref name="BinheimElvin1928" /> where she died on November 12, 1965.<ref name="familysearch">{{cite web |title=Lulu Maud Shaw 1880–1965 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2H2M-P8D |website=familysearch.org |access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref>
==Selected works== * ''The Story of Life'', 1924 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=FyhIAAAAIAAJ text]) * ''The Business of Being a Mother'', 1926 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=A89IAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 text])
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