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Personal life
Abby Crawford Milton was born in Milledgeville, Georgia to newspaper publisher Charles Peter Crawford and Anna Ripley Orme.

In 1904, Abby, married George Fort Milton Sr., an editor of the Pro-Suffrage Chattanooga News, this was George's second marriage. While George was busy with the newspaper, Abby went to school. She attended Chattanooga College of law where she received her law degree but never practiced it. Together, George and Abby had three daughters; Corine, Sarah Ann, and Frances. When George's first wife, Caroline Mounger McCall died in 1897, she left a son behind, George Fort Milton Jr. He became Abby's stepson when she married George. When George F. Milton Sr. died in 1924, Abby and stepson George took over the Chattanooga News until it was sold in the 1930s.

Later, Abby Crawford Milton moved to Clearwater, Florida where she began to write. She published "A Report of the Tennessee League of Women Voters," "The Magic Switch," poetry for children; "Caesar's Wife and Other Poems"; "Lookout Mountain"; "Flower Lore"; and "Grandma Says".

Career
Margaret, her two sisters, Anna and Mary Bateson, and their mother Anna Aitkin were involved with the Women's suffrage movement. Margaret was interested in journalism which she began pursuing in 1886. She then began working for 'queen' magazine where she stayed for the majority of her career. In 1888, she organized a campaign of meetings for the Women's Suffrage Society and on 1895 she published 'Professional Women upon their Professions'. In 1913 she became the president of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association, a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Executive committee and vice president of the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women. In 1912, as a member of the National Union of women's suffrage Societies, she wrote a letter to Maud Arncliffe Sennett stating that both men and women should have the opportunity to live in better conditions than they did. In 1920, she was a member of the standing committee of the Cambridge Branch of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship still in hopes of political equality.