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Margaret Irving Handy (1889 – 1977) was a pioneering doctor who was one of the first to specialize in pediatric medicine. In 1945 she established the first mothers’ milk bank at Delaware Hospital (now Wilmington Hospital) in Wilmington Delaware.Handy was born in Smyrna Delaware and was the daughter of L. Irving Handy a U.S. Representative. She attended Goucher College and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from which she graduated in 1916.