Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961

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Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on December 17, 1874, and died in Wilberforce, Ohio, on April 4, 1961. Kitchelt's activities included work as a social worker, settlement house worker, and suffragette organizer in New York, and as a peace activist in Connecticut.

From the description of Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1909-1947 (inclusive), 1924-1941 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165663

Social worker, suffragist, and socialist (Wells College, B.A., 1897) Kitchelt worked in settlement houses in Rochester, NY, N.Y.C., and New Haven, Ct., was Citizenship Director of the Connecticut League of Women Voters, executive director of the Connecticut League of Nations Association (1924-1944), chairman of the Connecticut Committee for the Equal Rights Amendment (1943-1956), and a published author.

From the description of Papers, 1885-1961 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122576356

Journal kept at The College Settlement, 95 Rivington St., New York City, 1900

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on 17 December 1874. She graduated from Wells College in 1897. For two years after college, she worked at the George Junior Republic, a self-governing community for troubled youth. From 1900-04, she worked at the New York College Settlement at 95 Rivington Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side and its summer location in Mt. Ivy, New York. In 1904, she returned to reform work as a volunteer probation officer for women with New York City's Essex Market Court. From 1904 to 1905, she worked at the Lowell House settlement in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the head worker in the Little Italy House in Brooklyn (1903) and another Italian American settlement, the "Housekeeping Center," in Rochester (1907-10). She married Richard Kitchelt in 1911. After her marriage, she was active in several civic and political causes. She volunteered and wrote articles for suffrage, trade union, socialist, and pacifist organizations in New York and Connecticut. She died in Wilberforce, Ohio on 4 April 1961.

From the guide to the Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers MS 86., 1900-1959, (Sophia Smith Collection)

Settlement house worker; Social worker.

Born Rochester, N.Y., 1874; graduated from Wells College, 1897; summer course at NY School of Philanthropy, 1900. Worked for two years as social worker at George Junior Republic, a community for troubled youth. Resident at College Settlement Association House in New York City, (also known as 95 Rivington Street), 1900-1904, and at its summer location in Mt. Ivy, N.Y.; and at Little Italy House, Brooklyn, circa 1903. Volunteer probation officer for women with New York City's Essex Market Court, 1904; worked at Lowell House, New Haven, 1904-05; and head resident of Italian settlement house, Rochester, NY, 1907-10. Married Richard Kitchelt, 1911. Was active in New York suffrage movement and peace movement in Connecticut, and served on several boards of social reform/public service organizations including the Consumers' League and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.

From the description of Papers, 1900-1959. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 49517318

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on December 17, 1874, and died in Wilberforce, Ohio, on April 4, 1961. Kitchelt's activities included work as a social worker, settlement house worker, reform volunteer, and suffragette organizer in New York, and as a peace activist in Connecticut.

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on December 17, 1874 to Frederick Holland and Jennie Ledyard (Wilcox) Cross. She attended Wells College in Aurora, New York, graduating in 1897 with an A.B. Throughout her early career Kitchelt was a social reform worker at a number of settlement houses in New York City and state. Immediately after college Kitchelt was a resident and volunteer worker caring for dependent and delinquent youth at the George Junior Republic in Freeville New York. She spent the next four years working for the College Settlement on the lower east side of Manhattan and its summer location in Mount Ivy, New York. In 1903 she was the head worker of an Italian American settlement called the "Little Italy House" in Brooklyn, New York. For a short time in 1904 she was a voluntary probation officer for women at the reformist Essex Market Court. From 1904 to 1905 Kitchelt worked at the Lowell House in New Haven, Connecticut.

After spending several months in Italy learning about the conditions from which her many immigrant cases came, Kitchelt returned to her hometown of Rochester, New York. In 1907 she opened "The Housekeeping Center" in an Italian neighborhood there, and the center operated under her supervision until1910. In June 1911, she married New York socialist agitator Richard Kitchelt.

By 1915 Florence Kitchelt had become a suffragette, continuing her work when she moved to New Haven, Connecticut three years later. There she became the Citizenship Director of the Connecticut League of Women Voters in 1920, and served as the Executive Director of the Connecticut branch of the League of Nations Association (CLNA) for twenty years beginning in 1924. During 1943 she was Chairman of the Connecticut Committee for the Equal Rights Amendment, a group she supported until 1956 when she and her husband moved to Ohio to live with Florence's sister Dorothy Zeiger.

Kitchelt was also a dedicated peace activist and worked with a variety of organizations to pursue pacifist goals, including thethe Connecticut Council on International Relations, the National Council for the Prevention of War, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Throughout her lifetime, Kitchelt was an active socialist, pacifist, member of the Unitarian society, and author of several books of poetry, a prose work called The World's Work , and editor for the Rochester magazine The Common Good . She died in Wilberforce, Ohio, on April 4, 1961.

From the guide to the Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1920-1947, (Manuscripts and Archives)

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referencedIn Papers of Grace A. Johnson in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1840-1952 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Oswald Garrison Villard papers Houghton Library
referencedIn Papers of Alice Hamilton, 1909-1987 (inclusive), 1909-1965 (bulk) Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960) Houghton Library
referencedIn Chase Kimball papers, 1906-1971 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
creatorOf Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1920-1947 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
creatorOf Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Papers, 1885-1961 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. Papers, 1846-1961 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Papers of of Alma Lutz,1921-1961 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1896-1954, 1898-1910 (bulk). Cornell University Library
referencedIn Grant, Jane, 1892-1972. Papers, 1911-1972 University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Scrapbook / [Florence Cross]. Rochester Public Library, Central Library of Rochester and Monore County
referencedIn Kimball, Chase, 1902-. Chase Kimball papers, 1906-1971 (inclusive). Yale University Library
creatorOf Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1909-1947 (inclusive), 1924-1941 (bulk). Yale University Library
creatorOf League of Nations Association (Conn.). Connecticut League of Nations Association records, 1928-1949. Connecticut Historical Society
referencedIn Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, 1775-1943 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Papers, (inclusive), (bulk), 1914-1998, 1937-1978 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Barrows family papers, 1861-1931. Houghton Library
referencedIn Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958. Papers, 1935-1958 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Papers of Ishbel Ross, 1948-1959 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf League of Nations Association (U.S.). League of Nations Association (U.S.) collected records, 1916, 1922-1945. Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
referencedIn Papers, 1846-1961 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Papers of Grace A. Johnson in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1840-1952: Subseries A-E, 1840-1952 (inclusive) Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Papers, 1900-1959. Smith College, Neilson Library
creatorOf Grant, Jane C., 1892-1972. Jane C. Grant papers, 1911-1972. University of Oregon Libraries
creatorOf Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers MS 86., 1900-1959 Sophia Smith Collection
referencedIn Papers of Alice Hamilton, 1909-1987 (inclusive), 1909-1965 (bulk) Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Collection, 1921-1961 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1896-1954, 1898-1910 (bulk) Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
creatorOf Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Journals, 1905-1947. [Microform] San Diego State University Library, SDSU Library and Information Access
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United States
United States
New York (State)--Rochester
Rochester (N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State)
Connecticut--New Haven
New York (State)--New York
New York (N.Y.)
Connecticut
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Connecticut
New Haven (Conn.)
Subject
Advertising cards
Emigration and immigration
Equal rights amendments
International organization
International relations
Italian Americans
Literature
Literature
Peace
Peaceful change (International relations)
Poor women
Social settlements
Social settlements
Social settlements
Social settlements
Social service
Social work with immigrants
Social work with immigrants
Voyages and travels
Women
Women
Women
Women and peace
Women social reformers
Women social reformers
Women's rights
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Death 1961

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