Lucile (Wolf) Heming Koshland, 1898-1978

Lucile Wolf Heming Koshland, political and civic volunteer, was born in New York City in 1898. She attended private schools in New York and spent a year at Vassar College before entering Barnard College, from which she graduated in 1919. She married Charles E. Heming, who died in 1929. In 1959 she married Daniel Koshland, Sr., former president of Levi-Strauss, and moved to California, where she lived until her death in 1978.

LWHK was president of the League of Women Voters of New York State; she was also the first president (1947-1953) of the Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund (later the Overseas Education Fund), member of its Board of Directors, and trustee until 1966.

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