Margarita returned home to Vienna and in 1898, with the help of Count Louis K. Stoeffel of the Arbon Castle at Lake Maggiore at Ticino, she regained custody of her son.

She later married "Count" Stoeffel, and it was in Switzerland in 1900 that her son, Heinrich Carl Fischer, was abducted by his father's family.

[1][2] Mrs. Wood was the first woman in Europe to attain a degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Vienna and permitted to practice abroad.

Edsel Ford made a stop at Mrs. Wood's Wigwam Ranch on July 1, 1915, as part of his Transcontinental Tour.

[5] In 1917 she had a Colorado Delegation address Congress in an attempt to get the Defense Department to make an exception and allow her to work as a physician for the United States Military in support of the war effort.