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Maud Nathan

American social activist
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Born:
Oct. 20, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.
Died:
Dec. 15, 1946, New York City (aged 84)
Founder:
National Consumers League
Notable Family Members:
sister Annie Florance Nathan Meyer
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Maud Nathan (born Oct. 20, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 15, 1946, New York City) was an American social welfare leader who helped to found the National Consumers League. Nathan was an elder sister of writer and antisuffragist Annie Nathan (Meyer). In April 1880 she married her cousin Frederick Nathan. Early in her married life she involved herself in such community service organizations as the New York Exchange for Women’s Work and the Women’s Auxiliary of the Civil Service Reform Association, and she served also as a director of the nursing school of Mount Sinai Hospital. In 1890 Nathan ...(100 of 299 words)

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