Complex sentence: Her father, John Bascom, was a professor at Williams College, and later President of University of Wisconsin-Madison and her mother, Emma Curtiss Bascom, was a women's rights activist involved in the suffrage movement.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father, John Bascom, was a professor at Williams College, and later President of University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her mother, Emma Curtiss Bascom, was a women's rights activist involved in the suffrage movement.