Wing, Marie Remington, 1885-1982
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Cleveland lawyer who served on city council (1923-1927), as Solicitor for the Village of Mentor (1929-1936), and as Regional Attorney for the Social Security Board (1936-1953). She was also involved in numerous professional, civic, and health organizations in Cleveland and in Mentor.
From the description of Papers, 1890-1982. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17938218
Marie Remington Wing was a Cleveland, Ohio lawyer who served on the Cleveland City Council (1923-1927), as Solicitor for the Village of Mentor, Ohio (1929-1936), and as Regional Attorney for the Social Security Board (1936-1953). She was also involved in numerous professional, civic, and health organizations in Cleveland and in Mentor. Wing came from a distinguished Cleveland family, which included her uncle, George Clary Wing, an author and attorney who served in several United States government departments. Marie's father, Francis Joseph Wing, was a judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and in the United States District Court for Northern Ohio. Her older sister, Virginia Remington Wing, was, like Marie, a social activist, working for the Red Cross, the Cleveland Anti-Tuberculosis League, and the Cleveland Health Council's Health Education Department. She was also the secretary of both the Brush Foundation and the Sight Saving Council. Marie's longtime companion, Dorothy Smith, worked with the YWCA, founded an insurance business, and was an executive for the East End Neighborhood House. Marie Wing's niece, Stephanie Ralph, was a school psychologist, and her husband, Paul Ralph, was also prominent in the academic world.
From the description of Marie Remington Wing family papers, 1849-1980. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 43252428
Lawyer, feminist, and reformer; b. in Cleveland, Ohio; later moved to Mentor, Ohio.
From the description of Papers, 1885-[ca. 1939]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70970671
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Subjects:
- Lawyers. Correspondence, reminiscences, etc
- Practice of law
- Social service
- Tuberculosis
- Unemployed
- Women
- Women
- Women lawyers
- Women lawyers
- Women volunteers in social service
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- Feminists
- Women lawyers
- Women social reformers
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- Ohio (as recorded)
- Lake County (Ohio) (as recorded)
- Ohio--Cleveland (as recorded)
- Cleveland (Ohio) (as recorded)
- Ohio--Mentor (as recorded)
- Ohio (as recorded)
- Cleveland (Ohio) (as recorded)
- Ohio (as recorded)
- Ohio--Cleveland (as recorded)
- Mentor (Ohio) (as recorded)
