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Margaret Chanler Aldrich
Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich (1870-1963) was an American philanthropist, poet, nurse, and woman’s suffrage advocate.
Born in New York City, October 1870, one of eleven children of John Wint...view moreMargaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich (1870-1963) was an American philanthropist, poet, nurse, and woman’s suffrage advocate.
Born in New York City, October 1870, one of eleven children of John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward, she served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, travelling to the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, where she organized the care and treatment of wounded soldiers. She was the awarded the Congressional Medal by President Roosevelt in 1939 for her services. Aldrich was instrumental in passing a 1901 bill establishing the Women’s Army Nursing Corps. She later served as an advocate for rural nursing, encouraging community members to support nurses.
A daughter of the New York politician John Winthrop Chanler, and wife of the New York Times music critic Richard Aldrich, she was a member of the prominent Astor family, and later in life wrote of the family in her memoirs, Family Vista (1958).
Aldrich served as President of the Woman’s Municipal League; Founder of the Churchwoman’s club, a suffrage club. She also served as Head of the Law Enforcement League and treasurer for the Woman’s Suffrage Party in New York. In 1917, she was elected president of the Protestant Episcopal Women’s Suffrage Association. She was a past president of the Protestant Episcopal Woman’s Suffrage Association.
Aldrich died in 1963 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York.view less