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Margaret Abbott
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American golfer (1878–1955)
Key facts
- Full name
- Margaret Ives Abbott
- Born
- ( 1878-06-15 ) June 15, 1878, Calcutta , British Raj
- Died
- June 10, 1955 (1955-06-10) (aged 76), Greenwich, Connecticut , U.S.
- Height
- 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
- Sporting nationality
- United States
- Spouse
- Finley Peter Dunne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 1902</span>"}]]}'>1902 ; died April 24, 1936</span>"}]]}'>1936 )
- Children
- 4, including Philip
- Status
- Amateur
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Abbott
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kolkata
- Place of death
- Greenwich
- Spouse
- Finley Peter Dunne
- Child
- Philip Dunne
- Mother
- Mary Abbott
- Occupation
- golfer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics – women's individual
- Sport
- golf
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- Margaret Abbott Charles Dana Gibson (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 180
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- date of birth
- 1878-06-15
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- 1955-06-10
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Encyclopedic overview
Margaret Ives Abbott (June 15, 1878 – June 10, 1955) was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), British Raj, in 1878, Abbott moved with her family to Chicago in 1884. She joined the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, where she received coaching from Charles B. Macdonald and H. J. Whigham. In 1899, she traveled with her mother to Paris to study art. The following year, along with her mother, she signed up for a women's golf tournament without realizing that it was the second modern Olympics. Abbott won the tournament with a score of 47 strokes; her mother tied for seventh place. Abbott received a porcelain bowl as a prize.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Abbott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.