White, Eva Whiting, 1885-1974
Eva Whiting was born in Webster, Mass., in 1880, daughter of Frederick Herbert and Marie Emma (Le Roy) Whiting. In 1902 she married Wesley Dunn Allen White. Having earned the first B.S. in social work from Simmons College in 1907, she pursued graduate studies in social work at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.
Whiting was Headworker at Elizabeth Peabody House (EPH), 1909-1944; professor of social economy at Simmons College, 1922-1950; non-resident lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, 1917- 29; member of the Boston Board of Public Welfare, 1925-1947; director of the Americanization and Immigration Division of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1927-1950; and president of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1929-1952. She was also active in other city, state, and federal government agencies concerned with health, education, and immigration.
From the guide to the Papers, 1900-1965, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
---|---|---|---|
referencedIn | Additional records of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.), 1877-2004 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Additional records, 1877-1974 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Additional records, 1877-1977 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Records of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 1942-2003 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-1980. | Andover-Harvard Theological Library | |
referencedIn | Cohen, Ethel, 1892-1977. Transcript of oral history, 1976. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Consumers' League of Massachusetts. Records, 1891-1955 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Massachusetts Society for Social Health. Records, 1915-1965 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
referencedIn | Papers of Ethel Cohen, 1918-1977 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
creatorOf | Papers of Eva Whiting White, 1900-1965 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America |
Filters:
Relation | Name |
---|---|
associatedWith | Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. |
associatedWith | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. |
associatedWith | Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 |
associatedWith | Boston (Mass.). Board of Public Welfare. |
associatedWith | Boston Committee for Displaced Persons. |
associatedWith | Boston School for Social Workers. |
associatedWith | Boston Social Union |
associatedWith | Brackett, Jeffrey Richardson, 1860-1949. |
associatedWith | Cabot, Henry B. (Henry Bromfield), b. 1894. |
associatedWith | Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939. |
Person
Birth 1885
Death 1974
Female
Americans
English
Variant Names
Shared Related Resources
White, Eva Whiting, 1885-1974
White, Eva Whiting, 1885-1974 | Title |
---|