Margaret A. Tullidge

Tullidge taught domestic science in the Philadelphia public schools. During World War I she gave public demonstrations of canning,^[5] telling her audiences that "every woman, man and child can join the food army, even if they are not eligible to join the army in the battlefield".^[6] She also encouraged her audiences to serve nutritionally balanced meals.^[7]

Tullidge used the pen-name "Jane Tyler" as editor and columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer.^[7] Her weekly column was called "What to Eat and How to Cook It". She was a member of the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women.^[8] In 1922 she was one of the judges at a fudge contest at the Philadelphia Commercial Museum.^[9]

Tullidge married physician Robert Porch Sturr in 1922; at their wedding, she chose as her maid of honor Abigail Harding, sister of president Warren G. Harding;^[10][11] when Abigail Harding was unwell, another Harding sister, Mrs. H. H. Votaw, took her place.^[12] The Sturrs lived in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, and had two sons, Robert^[13] and George.^[14] She was separated from her husband^[15] when he died in 1950;^[16][17] her older son died in 1980.^[18] She died in Los Angeles in 1986, at the age of 93.^[19]