Margaret Towner

Margaret Ellen Towner is an American religious leader who was the first woman to be ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. , the northern branch of the American Presbyterian Church.

Margaret Ellen Towner was born March 19, 1925, in Columbia, Missouri, to Milton Carsley Towner and Dorothy Marie Towner. She majored in premedical studies at Carleton College, receiving her B.A. in 1948. Afterwards, she worked as a medical photographer for the Mayo Clinic. She left the clinic and enrolled at Syracuse University in New York to study Christian audiovisual education around the same time, she began volunteering at local churches in Syracuse and East Genesee.

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