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Maud Nathan (born Oct. 20, 1862, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 15, 1946, New York City) was an American social welfare leader who helped to found the National Consumers League. Nathan was an elder sister of writer and antisuffragist Annie Nathan (Meyer). In April 1880 she married her cousin Frederick Nathan. Early in her married life she involved herself in such community service organizations as the New York Exchange for Women’s Work and the Women’s...