[3] During her marriage to Charles Fremont Dight, she was a supporter of the human eugenics movement.

[1] Mary (nickname, "Minnie")[4]Alice Glidden Crawford was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, on November 7, 1860.

Dight's mother supported the higher education of women and encouraged her daughter to pursue the profession of her choice.

She was graduated from the Department of Regular Medicine and Surgery of the University of Michigan Medical School, one of the youngest of the class of 1884.

[1] She wed Benjamin C. Trago, on May 9, 1885, but unhappy in the marriage,[4] she went abroad in 1886 and continued her studies in Paris and Vienna for two years.