[3][4] Lathrop taught physiology and anatomy courses at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia.

[5] She was one of several faculty who resigned in protest in 1923, when colleague Alice Weld Tallant's appointment was not renewed.

[8] She and her mother were charter members of the Independence Hall chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

[9] She was also active in the Philadelphia Wellesley Club,[10] and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.

[11] Lathrop lived in Philadelphia with a fellow physician, Annie Bartram Hall.