Josephine White deLacour

Josephine M. R. White deLacour (October 4, 1849 – March 16, 1929) was an American physician and suffragist and one of the first woman physicians in Delaware.

Early life Josephine Margaret Rebecca White was born on October 4, 1849, to Mary (née Beyer) and Alexander White at Beyerbrook Farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in the 1850s. She was also active in the women's suffrage movement, serving as president of the Wilmington Equal Suffrage Association from 1914 to 1916. She was one of the founders of the Physicians' and Surgeons' Hospital (later Wilmington General Hospital).

Personal life In 1900, she married Edward deLacour (1855–1928), a judge of the Appeal Tax Court of Baltimore. She is buried at the Old Swedes Cemetery in Wilmington.