Pauline "Polly" Whittier (December 9, 1876 – March 3, 1946) was an American

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

er who competed in the

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on behalf of Switzerland. She was born in

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. Whittier won the silver medal in the women's competition. She was a daughter of Col. Charles A. Whittier, and in 1904 she married Ernest Iselin, son of Adrian Iselin Jr.

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* * * American female golfers Amateur golfers Golfers at the 1900 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics Golfers from Boston 1876 births 1946 deaths Iselin family 19th-century American sportswomen {{US-golf-bio-stub