Dewson, Mary (Molly) WIlliams, 1874-1962
Mary ("Molly") Williams Dewson (1874-1962) was born in Quincy, Mass., earned an A.B. from Wellesley College (1897), and was then secretary of the Domestic Reform Committee of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston. She left this position in 1900 to become the superintendent of parole at the Massachusetts State Industrial School for Girls, Lancaster, where she remained until 1912. There she met Mary ("Polly") Porter (1884-1972), an intern and then a volunteer at the school. By 1910, MWD and MGP had formed a "partnership" that lasted until MWD's death.
After running a small dairy farm with MGP(1913-1917), MWD returned to reform work, especially the woman's suffrage movement and the National Consumers' League campaign for minimum wage laws for women and children. During World War I MWD and MGP spent 15 months with the American Red Cross's Bureau of Refugees in France.
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