Helen Tufts Bailie Papers 1886-1959

Luscomb, Florence, 1887-1985

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Florence Hope Luscomb, social and political activist, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on February 6, 1887, the daughter of Otis and Hannah Skinner (Knox) Luscomb. With an S.B. in architecture (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909), she worked as an architect until 1917, when she became executive secretary for the Boston Equal Suffrage Association. She held positions in the Massachusetts Civic League and other organizations and agencies until 1933, when she became a full-ti...

Marks, Jeannette Augustus, 1875-1964

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Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. Born on August 16, 1875 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, her parents were Jeannette Holmes (née Colwell) and William Dennis Marks, who was the president of the Philadelphia Edison Company, after working at University of Pennsylvania, where he taught engineering. As her parents were estranged, Marks grew up mainly in the company of her mother and younger sister, Mabel, alternating homes be...

Daughters of the American Revolution.

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D. A. R. chapters from Washington, DC and surrounding areas. From the description of Papers, 1948-1949. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36009706 ...

Shearer, William B. (William Baldwin), 1874-1958

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Eastman, Elaine Goodale, 1863-1953

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Bailie, Helen Tufts, 1874-1962

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Helen Matilda Tufts was born in Newark, New Jersey, January 9, 1874. The family moved to Massachusetts in 1875 and Helen graduated from Cotting High School in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1892. She worked in a printing office where she learned to set type, as a proofreader at the Riverside Press, and did secretarial work at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. In April 1895 Helen met labor organizer, anarchist and writer Helena Born, who became a close and influential fri...

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...

Born, Helena, 1860-1901

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Helena Born, a labor organizer, anarchist, and writer, grew up in England in a prosperous family, and turned to socialism early in life. By the time she emigrated to America in 1890 with a close friend, Miriam Daniell, she had rejected socialism for anarchism. She settled in Cambridge (Mass.), and worked as a typesetter and proofreader. She had a deep appreciation of nature, joined the Walt Whitman Fellowship, and wrote "Whitman's ideal democracy, and other writings" (1902). From the...

Milner, Lucille Bernheimer, 1888-

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Brosseau, Grace Lincoln Hall, 1872-

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