Margaret Ives Abbott was born June 15, 1876 in Calcutta, Bengal, India to father Charles Patterson Abbott and mother Mary Perkins.[1]
Margaret traveled to Paris with her mother to study art in 1899 under Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin.
Margaret Ives Abbott was the first American woman to take first place in an Olympic event; she won the women's golf tournament, consisting of nine holes, with a score of 47 at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Her mother, Mary Perkins Ives Abbot (a novelist and Chicago Tribune book reviewer), also competed in the event, finishing tied for seventh, making it the first (and still only) Olympic event in which a mother and daughter competed at the same time.[2][3][4]
In 1902, Abbott married writer Finley Peter Dunne.
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