Background
Wade, Mary L. Hill was born on August 9, 1855 in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Sylvester Gardner and Martha J. (Dyer) Hill.
Wade, Mary L. Hill was born on August 9, 1855 in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Sylvester Gardner and Martha J. (Dyer) Hill.
Graduate Muscatine High School, 1872, Boston Cooking School, 1892.
Teacher of cooking, Quincy (Massachusetts) High School, 1892-1908, Milton (Massachusetts) schools, 1893-1910, Quincy Mansion School, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1899-1911. Dietitian to Brockton (Massachusetts) City Hospital, 1903-1911. Introduced teaching of dietetics in Eastern State Hospital, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, 1895, Eastern State Hospital, Independence, Iowa, 1896.
Charter member National Home Economics Association.
Clubs: Women's City, Cordon (Chicago), Woman’s (Quincy, Massachusetts).
Married Edmund Richmond Wade, of Brockton, Massachusetts, September 15, 1875. Children: Arthur Hill (deceased), Howard Gardner, Edmund Church (deceased), Vernon Richmond, Helen Marjorie.