Margaret Chung
Margaret Chung was born in 1889 in Santa Barbara. Chung was the daughter of immigrants and the oldest of eleven children. She grew up in a 24,000 acre ranch located in Ventura County. Chung decided that she wanted to be a doctor at a young age. She needed money to go to school. Chung sold newspapers to make money. Her newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, gave her a scholarship to go to school. Chung was rejected from all hospitals (as a doctor) after she graduated from medical school. She was forced to take a spot at the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital as a surgical nurse. Chung worked at the Mary Thompson Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Chicago. She worked as a state resident at the State Hospital for Criminally Insane in Illinois. Chung moved back to Los Angeles and built a small practice for those that could not pay when she heard about her father’s death.