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135:, in Chicago. Dummer's wide-ranging interests included biology, psychiatry, anthropology, and economics. She married William Francis Dummer (1851–1928), a prominent Chicago banker, in 1888. The couple had four daughters—Marion, Ethel, Katharine, and Frances—and a son who died in infancy.
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Eliot, Thomas D. (May 1937). "'Why I Think So: The
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