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Margaret Livingston <I>Chanler</I> Aldrich

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Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich

Birth
New York County, New York, USA
Death
19 Mar 1963 (aged 92)
Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, USA
Burial
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Margaret Livingston (Chanler) Aldrich was a daughter of John Winthrop Chanler, a prominent attorney and U.S. Representative from New York, and his wife, Margaret Astor "Maddie" (Ward) Chanler, an Astor heiress whose parents were Samuel Cutler Ward and Emily Astor, a daughter of William Backhouse Astor. As an adult, she purchased from her siblings their interest in Rokeby, the family estate where she was raised, which had been inherited by her mother from her grandfather, William Backhouse Astor.

She was married to Richard Aldrich, an American music critic who served as the music critic for The New York Times from 1902–23.

She served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, travelling to the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico and helped to pass a 1901 bill establishing the Women's Army Nursing Corps. She was awarded a Congressional medal on December 19, 1939 for her significant contributions.

She supported women's suffrage and served as the president of the Protestant Episcopal Woman's Suffrage Association.

Her memoir, Family Vista: The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich, was published in 1958.
Margaret Livingston (Chanler) Aldrich was a daughter of John Winthrop Chanler, a prominent attorney and U.S. Representative from New York, and his wife, Margaret Astor "Maddie" (Ward) Chanler, an Astor heiress whose parents were Samuel Cutler Ward and Emily Astor, a daughter of William Backhouse Astor. As an adult, she purchased from her siblings their interest in Rokeby, the family estate where she was raised, which had been inherited by her mother from her grandfather, William Backhouse Astor.

She was married to Richard Aldrich, an American music critic who served as the music critic for The New York Times from 1902–23.

She served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, travelling to the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico and helped to pass a 1901 bill establishing the Women's Army Nursing Corps. She was awarded a Congressional medal on December 19, 1939 for her significant contributions.

She supported women's suffrage and served as the president of the Protestant Episcopal Woman's Suffrage Association.

Her memoir, Family Vista: The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich, was published in 1958.

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