Margaret Stanley-Brown

Margaret Stanley-Brown Sellers (October 2, 1895 – June 12, 1958) was an American surgeon and medical school professor, based in New York City. She was the granddaughter of President James A. Garfield.

Early life and education Stanley-Brown was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest child of Joseph Stanley-Brown and Mary (Mollie) Garfield Stanley-Brown. Her mother was the only daughter of President James A. Garfield. Her father was President Garfield's private secretary; he also worked with John Wesley Powell. Her brother Rudolph Stanley-Brown was a noted architect and writer. Her sister Ruth, also a writer, married historian Herbert Feis.

Stanley-Brown attended the Hartridge School in New Jersey, and graduated from Vassar College in 1919. She graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1923.

Career Stanley-Brown served her residency and internship at Bellevue Hospital. She was on the surgical staff of Fifth Avenue Hospital and assistant director of surgery at City Hospital. She taught at the Columbia University medical school. She moved to Connecticut in 1953, and was a surgeon on staff at New Milford Hospital. Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Journal of Biological Chemistry. "Evaluation of blood clotting factors in surgical diseases" (1929, with Frederic W. Bancroft and I. Newton Kugelmass) "The determination and regulation of blood clotting function in childhood" (1930, with Frederic W. Bancroft and I. Newton Kugelmass) "Postoperative thrombosis and embolism" (1935, with Frederic W. Bancroft and Armand J. Quick) "A study of the coagulation defect in hemophilia and in jaundice" (1935, with Frederic W. Bancroft and Armand J. Quick) "Studies on the chemistry of blood coagulation" (1936, with Erwin Chargaff and Frederic W. Bancroft) She died in 1958, at the age of 64, at a hospital in New Milford, Connecticut.