[1][2] Her father was a Protestant minister; her mother was a writer and editor, and an expert beekeeper.
[2] Margaret Tupper taught school in Colorado Springs as a young woman.
[8] She presented at the Mothers' Congress of Utah in 1898, as president of the Educational Alliance of Denver, on "Sister Professions: The Home and School".
[9] She was the elected president of the Denver School Board from 1906 to 1908,[10] and was head of the district's truancy department.
"For the first time in a city of the first class a woman has been elected president of the school board," announced the Journal of Education.