Physician and social activist/philanthropist.
Margaret Crumpton grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey. After training as an allopath at the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, she joined her elder sisters in the Pittsburgh area and set up practice as a physician in Allegheny (now Pittsburgh's North Side). She was the first woman elected as a delegate to the Pennsylvania Medical Society and, presumably because of her work in the community, she received a bequest of $5000 from the late multimillionaire railroad magnate William Thaw. In October 1889 she married Pittsburgh real estate developer F.F. Nicola and gave up her medical practice; but as a society wife, she became active in the women's anti-pollution movement as a member of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Ladies' Health Protective Association. She was also active in the Twentieth Century Club and as a public lecturer on women's health. She served as a member of the committee that planned the establishment of the Civic Club of Pittsburgh, a key force in Pittsburgh progressive political reform. Margaret edited and published her late sister Nataline's final book, Leaflets from Italy (1912), a collection of Italian historical sketches. (--Ron Schuler)
Physician and social activist/philanthropist.
Margaret Crumpton grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey. After training as an allopath at the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, she joined her elder sisters in the Pittsburgh area and set up practice as a physician in Allegheny (now Pittsburgh's North Side). She was the first woman elected as a delegate to the Pennsylvania Medical Society and, presumably because of her work in the community, she received a bequest of $5000 from the late multimillionaire railroad magnate William Thaw. In October 1889 she married Pittsburgh real estate developer F.F. Nicola and gave up her medical practice; but as a society wife, she became active in the women's anti-pollution movement as a member of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Ladies' Health Protective Association. She was also active in the Twentieth Century Club and as a public lecturer on women's health. She served as a member of the committee that planned the establishment of the Civic Club of Pittsburgh, a key force in Pittsburgh progressive political reform. Margaret edited and published her late sister Nataline's final book, Leaflets from Italy (1912), a collection of Italian historical sketches. (--Ron Schuler)
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