Ragan was a member of the American Society of Authors, of New York City, the National Press League, the Woman's Press Guild, and the Triennial Council of Women. She was also one of those by whose efforts the First Universalist Church was established in Washington, and for seventeen years, she was secretary of the Woman's National Missionary Society. During the Spanish–American War, she was actively engaged in the work of the soldiers' rest rooms at 1204 Pennsylvania Avenue and was one of the charter members of the Mary A. Babcock Auxiliary, No. 1. She was associated and actively engaged in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Federation of Women's Clubs, and for twenty years, was president of the woman's clinic. On September 10, 1901, she married William Henry Ragan, of the Agricultural Department, widely known as an authority on pomology; he died August 6, 1909.
