[1] Her sister Lucy Minnigerode was head of the United States Public Health Service Nursing Corps.
She was of German descent, being the granddaughter of Charles Minnigerode, a revolutionary who fled to the United States in the 1830s due to his radical sentiments.
She also studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase, with Luigi Chialiva [de] of Paris,[1] and Ernest Lieberman in Munich.
[citation needed] She produced designs for the stained glass windows of St. Paul's Church in Steubenville, Ohio.
She published several books which she illustrated herself, including My Studio Window (1928); Scraps of Paper (1929); and George Washington's Country (1930); and also created silhouettes.