Background
She was born Marcella O"Grady in Boston, the daughter of Irish immigrants.
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Marcella Boveri
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Education
She attended Girls" High School in Boston. After she completed her post-graduate studies in Harvard University O"Grady worked as an assistant to the zoologist Edmund Beecher Wilson at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
Career
Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900–1975) became one of the best-known post-war German journalists. She was the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1889 she transferred as associate professor to Vassar College, and became full professor there in 1893.
During this time O"Grady was very much in favour of encouraging women to study and advance themselves in higher education.
She started a fresh course of studies there, the only woman at the university at that time, working together with Theodor Boveri. Her daughter Margret was born on 14 August 1900.
Her husband died in 1915, from tuberculosis, which Marcella was convinced was aggravated by stress due to the First World War. She returned to the United States in 1925, where she worked at Albertus Magnus College until 1942.
She died in 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey.
