Dillon, Mary Earhart, 1898-1992
Americans,
English,
Biographical notes:
Mary Earhart Dillon was born Ferburary 5, 1898. While an assistant professor of political science, Mary Earhart Dillon wrote Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (published under the name Mary Earhart by University of Chicago Press in 1944). Due to the difficulty of finding primary source material, Dillon contacted various women in the Midwest (especially the Chicago lawyer and suffragist, Catharine Waugh McCulloch) who had been active in temperance, woman's suffrage, and related movements and activities. These women gave her books and papers they had created or accumulated during their work for these causes. Dillon, as a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, arranged with the university library that she would deposit the materials there when she had completed her research.
When the time came, she was told that the library had no space for the collection, nor funds to process it and make it available to other researchers, and she was asked to remove it as soon as possible from the basement of the building in which her office had been. Dillon was unable to find a taker until, in June 1948, she wrote to the Women's Archives (later the Schlesinger Library) at Radcliffe College, and received a positive and enthusiastic response.
In September, 1948, joined the Department of Government at Queen's College in New York. She later published a biography of Wendell Willkie, and was for many years a National Consultant for the Schlesinger Library. She moved in Memphis, Tenn. upon her retirement and died there on February 5, 1992.
Links to collections
Stewart, Ella Jane Seass, 1871-. Series XII of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1895-1939 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945. Papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1869-1945
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947. Series I of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1904-1946 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Dillon, Mary Earhart,. Series XIII (Suffrage Miscellany) of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1879-1920 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Johnson, Carrie Ashton, 1863-. Series V of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1889-1941 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Dillon, Mary Earhart. The influence of Frances Willard on the woman's movement of the nineteenth century, 1939.
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Dillon, Mary Earhart,. Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1863-1955 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Reilly, Caroline I. Series VIII of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1907-1941 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Stantial, Edna Lamprey. Series XI of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1893-1944 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Suffrage Miscellany, 1879-1920
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Hefferan, Helen Maley, 1870-. Series IV of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1902-1941 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Robinson, Lelia Josephine, 1850-1891. Series IX of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1887-1892 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1863-1955
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Papers of Anna Howard Shaw in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1863-1961
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Harte, Grace H. Series III of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1890-1945 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, b. 1845. Series II of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1870-1939 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Papers of Harriett Reid in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1920-1942
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin. Papers, 1878-1989 (inclusive).
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin, 1879-1959. Papers, 1860s-1993
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Related names in SNAC
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Allender, Nina E. (Nina Evans), 1873-1957
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Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin
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Anthony, Lucy Elmina.
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Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909.
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Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.
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Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, b. 1845.
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Harte, Grace H.
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Hefferan, Helen Maley, 1870-
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Johnson, Carrie Ashton, 1863-
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McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, b. 1862.
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Reid, Harriett.
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Reilly, Caroline I.
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Robinson, Lelia Josephine, 1850-1891.
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Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919.
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Stantial, Edna Lamprey.
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Stewart, Ella Jane Seass, 1871-
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898.
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Allender, Nina
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Allender, Nina.
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Grace (Gallatin) Seton, 1872-1959
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Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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Subjects:
- Anti-feminism
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women's rights
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
- Women
Occupations:
- Professor
- Writer
- Collector
Places:
- NY, US
- TN, US
- IL, US
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
Variant Names
Dillon, Mary Earhart
Mary Earhart Dillon
Mary (Earhart) Dillon
Earhart, Mary
