Margaret (Cook) Thomson, born in 1889, the daughter of Robert A. Cook and Margaret (McIntosh) Seabury, was brought up by her aunts and attended Smith College, A.B. 1911. She married James Claude Thomson in 1917, a chemist and nutrition expert. In 1917 they went to the University of Nanking, where JCT was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and remained there (except for furloughs home) until the communist takeover in 1949. During the Japanese occupation of China, the university was moved to the City of Chengtu on the Tibetan border. MCT was herself a teacher and missionary for the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. In the 1950s, JCT taught at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and travelled in Iran, Turkey and Pakistan as nutrition consultant to the World Health Organization.
From the guide to the Papers, 1850 (1904-1978), (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
