Dillon, Mary Earhart, 1898-1992

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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.

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Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
referencedIn Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin. Papers, 1878-1989 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
creatorOf Dillon, Mary Earhart,. Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1863-1955 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
creatorOf Suffrage Miscellany, 1879-1920 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
referencedIn Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin, 1879-1959. Papers, 1860s-1993 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1863-1955 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
creatorOf 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
creatorOf Papers of Harriett Reid in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1920-1942 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
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associatedWith Allender, Nina E. (Nina Evans), 1873-1957 person
associatedWith Anthony, Lucy Elmina. person
associatedWith Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909. person
associatedWith Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947. person
associatedWith Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, b. 1845. person
associatedWith Harte, Grace H. person
associatedWith Hefferan, Helen Maley, 1870- person
associatedWith Johnson, Carrie Ashton, 1863- person
associatedWith McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, b. 1862. person
associatedWith National American Woman Suffrage Association. corporateBody
associatedWith Reid, Harriett. person
associatedWith Reilly, Caroline I. person
associatedWith Robinson, Lelia Josephine, 1850-1891. person
associatedWith Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin person
associatedWith Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919. person
associatedWith Stantial, Edna Lamprey. person
associatedWith Stewart, Ella Jane Seass, 1871- person
associatedWith Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898. person
associatedWith Woman's Christian Temperance Union. corporateBody
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New York City NY US
Memphis TN US
Chicago IL US
United States
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Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women's rights
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Professor
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Birth 1898-02-05

Death 1992-02-05

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English

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