She assumed the position of Dean in 1914, served as part of the Council of National Defense during the First World War, and then practiced as a GP in Brooklyn from 1918 to 1939.

They ran a school for young ladies with a liberal philosophy, being friends with Susan B. Anthony and Dr Clemence Lozier, who were pioneers of women's rights.

[6] But "she had a beau" – lawyer Henry Livingston Brant – and married him on November 26, 1885 in Newark, and then focussed on bringing up her family of three children: Clifford, Hazel and Helen.

[6] Henry Brant was the heir to his father's lumber business but studied law at Princeton and then started a successful legal career, with an office on Park Row for over fifty years.

She commuted on the el train to the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women where she studied hard, graduating first in her class in 1903 with honors.

[8] She spoke against the eugenic ideas of Dr Haiselden, "In my opinion it is impossible for any physician to say absolutely that any human condition is beyond cure or at least improvement.