Josephine White deLacour

Josephine Margaret Rebecca White was born on October 4, 1849, to Mary (née Beyer) and Alexander White at Beyerbrook Farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] Her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in the 1850s.[1] She graduated from Wesleyan Female College in Wilmington in 1875 and received her medical degree from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1878.[2][3]

She began her practice in Wilmington, Delaware in 1879 and in 1880 became the first woman elected a member of the Delaware Medical Society.[4] She was also active in the women's suffrage movement, serving as president of the Wilmington Equal Suffrage Association from 1914 to 1916.[1][5] She was one of the founders of the Physicians' and Surgeons' Hospital (later Wilmington General Hospital).[3]

In June 1895, she ran for Wilmington's Board of Education, but was defeated.[1]

Josephine White deLacour practiced medicine in Wilmington for 50 years, until her death.[6]

In 1900, she married Edward deLacour (1855–1928), a judge of the Appeal Tax Court of Baltimore.[1][2] They lived at 706 West Street in Wilmington, Delaware, where she also had her office.

She died on March 16, 1929, from angina at her home in Wilmington.[7] She is buried at the Old Swedes Cemetery in Wilmington.[1]