Ida C. Nahm

Ida Catherine Mettler Nahm (November 1865 – November 1, 1922) was an American medical doctor and clubwoman.

Ida C. Nahm
Ida C. Nahm, from a 1910 publication.
BornNovember 1865
German Valley, New Jersey
DiedNovember 1, 1922
NationalityAmerican
OccupationDoctor
Known forProfessional Woman's League

Early life and education

Ida C. Mettler was born in the German Valley, New Jersey section of Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey,[1] the daughter of Augustus Mettler and Christianna B. Bryant Mettler.[2] She earned a medical degree at the Hering Medical College in Chicago in 1896.[3][4]

Career

Nahm sang in the chorus at the Metropolitan Opera and worked as a nurse, before attending medical school. In 1899, she and her husband were running a sanitarium in New York City.[5] She gave health and beauty advice – about makeup, shoes, corsets, exercise, relationships, and skincare — in syndicated newspaper articles in the 1910s.[6][7][8]

Nahm was Corresponding Secretary of the Professional Woman's League[9] in 1904,[10] and later became one of the league's vice presidents, supporting Amelia Bingham as president.[11] She was also an executive of the Stage Children's Fund.[3] In the 1910s, she was manager of the women's department[12] of the annual Actors' Fund Fair, a major fundraising event.[13][14][15][16]

Personal life

Ida Catherine Mettler married theatrical manager Simon Nahm in 1892. She was widowed in 1909,[17] and she died from diabetes in 1922, aged 56 years, at her home in New York City.[3]

References
  1. "Ida C. Nahm Dies" New York Herald (November 3, 1922): 11.
  2. Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book (1915): 190.
  3. "Dr. Ida C. Nahm" The New York Times (November 3, 1922): 16. via Newspapers.com
  4. "The Commencement Exercises" The Medical Counselor (May 1896): 120.
  5. "Woman Leaps from Window" New York Times (August 24, 1899): 3. via Newspapers.com
  6. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, "How the American Woman Cheats Herself of Youth" Quad-City Times (March 30, 1915): 7. via Newspapers.com
  7. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, "Bad Corsets May be a Cause of Divorce; Good Ones are Not, says a Woman Doctor" The Evening World (March 2, 1914): 3. via Newspapers.com
  8. "Thinks Woman Should Put Man in his Proper Place" El Paso Herald (July 13, 1911): 3. via Newspapers.com
  9. "Professional Woman's League Fair" New York Times (December 13, 1913): 24. via ProQuest
  10. "Two Notable American Women in the Public Eye" Broadway Weekly (October 26, 1904): 17.
  11. Club Women of New York (Mail & Express Company 1906): 46.
  12. "Amelia Bingham Returning" New York Dramatic Mirror (February 26, 1910): 16.
  13. "Stage Women Meet" New York Dramatic Mirror (February 12, 1910): 11.
  14. "Fund Fair Activities" New York Dramatic Mirror (February 26, 1910): 7.
  15. "The Actors' Fund Fair" New York Dramatic Mirror (May 21, 1910): 9.
  16. "Actors' Fund Fair Opens in N. Y. Saturday Night" Billboard (May 12, 1917): 36.
  17. Untitled news item, Courier-News (March 24, 1909): 2. via Newspapers.com
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