Bradley, Frances Sage, 1862-1949

Frances Sage Bradley, physician and author, was born 28 August 1862 in Fort Gaines, Georgia, and died 12 February 1949, in Washington, D.C. She married artist and editor, Horace James Bradley (c1862-1896) in 1885 and moved to New York City, were he was art editor of HARPER'S MONTHLY and HARPER'S WEEKLY. After his death (1896), Frances Bradley studied at the Woman's Medical College of New York and was one of the first two women graduates of Cornell's School of Medicine (1899). She practiced in Atlanta, Georgia, until 1914, then became associated with the United States Children's Bureau, worked with the American Red Cross in France (1918), directed the Arkansas Bureau of Child Hygiene (1924-1925) and the Montana Division of Child Welfare (1926), and retired (1928) to Washington, D.C.

From the description of Frances Sage Bradley papers, 1893-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123380326