Lila Meade Valentine née Hardaway Meade (February 4, 1865 – July 14, 1921) was a Virginia education reformer, health-care advocate, and one of the main leaders of her state's participation in the woman's suffrage movement in the United States. She worked to improve public education through her co-founding and leadership of the Richmond Education Association, and advocated for public health by founding the Instructive Visiting Nurses Association, through which she helped eradicate tuberculosis from the Richmond area.
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1865 Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
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1921 (aged 55) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
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