Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944

Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932

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Florence Kelley (A.B., Cornell, 1882) was born in Philadelphia. In 1884 she married Lazare Wischnewetzky; they had three children. In 1891 Kelley divorced him, reclaimed her maiden name, and became a resident of Chicago's Hull-House. In 1892 the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics hired her to investigate the "sweating" system in the garment industry and the federal commissioner of labor asked her to participate in a survey of city slums. Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld later...

Atlantic Monthly

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Storrow, Helen Osborne, 1864-1944

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

Putnam family

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Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1856-1937

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Social reformer Elizabeth Glendower Evans was involved in prison reform, support of striking workers, the Massachusetts campaign for the first minimum wage act for women, the movement for women's suffrage, and peace. She was a contributing editor and financial supporter of La Follette's Magazine and the Progressive, and national director of the American Civil Liberties Union (1920-1937). From the description of Papers, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk). (Harvard University...

Unwin family

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Huntington, Catharine, 1887-1987

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Actress, director, and producer Catharine Sargent Huntington was born in Ashfield, Mass. on December 29, 1886. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1911 and taught English and theater at Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., 1915-1918. She was active in New England's Little Theatre movement from the early 1920s and was president and member of the board of directors of the Provincetown Playhouse in Provincetown, Mass. (1960-?). From the description of [Poetry reading...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Chafee, Zechariah, 1885-1957

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Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, in 1907. Later, he received a law degree from Harvard University, completing his LL.B. in 1913. He was influenced by the theories of sociological Jurisprudence presented by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard. He met Harold J. Laski, a political scientist and later a leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, who became a lifelong friend, there. He practiced at the law fir...

Codman, Katharine Putnam (Bowditch)

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Cabot, Philip, 1872-1941

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Philip Cabot began lecturing in public utility management in 1924 and became Professor of Utility Management in 1927. In 1935 he changed focus and became Professor of Business Administration. Reflecting his concern with the social contract between workers and employers, he organized the Business Executive Discussion Group in 1935. In 1941, this forum became the New England Conference on National Defense, with membership restricted to leaders of small New England businesses. Cabot organized and r...

Raushenbush, Elizabeth (Brandeis), 1896-

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Baug, Eleonore

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Greene, Rosalind Huidekoper, 1885-

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Bondfield, Margaret G.

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Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970

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A physician who was the first woman professor at Harvard University, Hamilton also worked as a resident researcher at Hull House, a researcher of industrial poisons for the U.S. Department of Labor, and was a member of the League of Nations Health Organization and of President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. For further information, see Notable American Women, The Modern Period (1980); Hamilton's autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades (1942); and Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A ...

Gardiner, Robert Hallowell

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La Follette, Belle Case, 1859-1931

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Belle Case La Follette (April 21, 1859 – August 18, 1931) was a women's suffrage, peace, and Civil Rights activist in Wisconsin, United States. La Follette worked with the women's peace party during World War I. At the time of her death in 1931, The New York Times called her "probably the least known yet most influential of all American women who have had to do with public affairs in this country." A native of Summit, Wisconsin, Belle Case attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison from ...

Jackson, James, 1777-1867

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U.S. surgeon, physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. From the description of Notes from lectures delivered by James Jackson, MD, professor of theory and practice of physic, and John C. Warren, MD, professor of anatomy and surgery, at Harvard University, 1827-28 / taken by Stephen Bates. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31931557 Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1809) was Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1812 to 1836 ...

Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936

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Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and Harvard Divinity School in 1872. Ordained in 1874, Peabody served the First Parish (Unitarian) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1879. Peabody then joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School teaching theological students Christian ethics, specializing in pioneer applications of religion to social problems. He was the Parkman Professor of Theology from 1881 to 1885 and then the Plummer Professor of Christian Mora...

Industrial Aid Society.

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Skinner, Clarence Russell, 1881-1949

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Clarence Russell Skinner ( 1881-1949 ) was a graduate of St. Lawrence University and was ordained in 1906 . He served parishes in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mt. Vernon, New York . In 1914, he became Professor of Applied Christianity at the Crane Theological School of Tufts University . In 1915, he published The Social Implications of Universalism. Increasingly disillusioned with Universalism, he founded the all-inclusive, nondenominational Community Church of Boston in 1920 . From 1933 until his...

Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945

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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073 Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life i...

Jackson, James

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Epithet: of Aylesbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000110 Epithet: of Add MS 40228 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x00010f Epithet: merchant, of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x00010c Epithet: of Glasgow ...

Scudder, Vida-Dutton, 1861-1954

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Vida Dutton Scudder, 1884 Vida Scudder was born in India on December 15, 1861, the only child of Harriet Louisa (Dutton) and David Coit Scudder. She and her mother returned to Boston following the death of her father, although she spent much of her childhood traveling in Europe. She attended Boston private secondary schools, and graduated from Smith College in 1884. While doing postgraduate work at Oxford University, where she attended lectures by John Ruskin, Scudder d...

Hale, Richard Walden, 1871-1943

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Author and historian. From the description of Papers of Richard Walden Hale, 1938-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83212270 ...

Brooks, Helen Lawrence Appleton, 1846-1938.

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Helen Brooks was active in a number of voluntary organizations, including the Mothers' Club of Cambridge (Mass.), which founded playgrounds and vacation schools. She assisted her husband, John Graham Brooks, a Unitarian minister, with his writings. From the description of Papers, 1822-1985 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006930 ...

Dudley, Helena Stuart, 1858-1932.

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Simpson, Rose

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Alice Stone Blackwell Fund

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Slade, Madeleine (Mirabai).

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Gardiner, J. Pennington

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Sayre, Jessie (Wilson), -1933

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Goldmark, Josephine, 1977-1950

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Holt, Florence Taber

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Burlingham, Charles C. (Charles Culp), 1858-1959

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Culp Burlingham : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724026 Attorney, civic leader, reformer. A.B., Harvard, 1879; LL. B., Columbia, 1881; LL. D., Williams, 1931; Columbia, 1933; Harvard, 1934. Attorney and partner, Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, N.Y.C., firm specializing in admiralty law. Board member and pres., N.Y. (City) Board of Educ., Welfare Council of N....

La Follette, Fola, 1882-1970

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Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Government attorney, prof. of law, legal scholar, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In service of Federal Gov't., 1906-1914, 1917-1919 in N.Y.? prof. of law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1914-1939; U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1939-1962. Author of books and articles on legal and related topics. Recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Visiting prof., Oxford Univ., England, 1933-1934. From the description of Papers of Felix Frankfurter, 1900-1965 (inclusive), 1939-19...

Massachusetts State Reform Schools.

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Elliot, Mary

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Winter, Ella, 1898-1980

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Writer. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart. From the description of Papers, 1913-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122622286 ...

Wilkinson, Perle Rous

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Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert), 1860-1937

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Merchant and reformer, of Boston, Mass.; president of William Filene's Sons Co., established 1851 in Boston, by his father William Filene; spoke and wrote extensively on retailing, merchandizing, business, cooperative credit, and world peace; founder of the credit union movement (1908-1937). From the description of Edward A. Filene papers, 1888-1937 (bulk 1907-1937). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973639 Edward A. Filene, of the Boston department store firm, sponsored the ...

Thomson, William Goodrich, 1864-1935

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Rogers Annete P., ca. 1845-ca. 1920

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Toynbee, Rosalind

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Gilbert, Susan Brandeis, 1893-1975.

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Glasier, Katherine Bruce

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Riply, William Zebina, 1867-1941

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Goldmark, Susan, -1941

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Jackson, Patrick Tracy 1780-1847.

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Ely, Joseph Buell, 1881-1956.

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Niles, David K., 1892-1952.

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James, William, 1842-1910

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William James was the preeminent American philosopher of his day. His reinterpretations of psychology and pragmatism were among his major contributions to world thought, and his work continues to reward study and inspire analysis. From the description of William James letter to A.G. Dew-Smith, 1883 Dec. 1. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50757824 From the description of William James letter to Violet Paget, 1908 July 29. (Pennsylvania State Uni...

Alice Howe (Gibbens)

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Lee, Joseph, 1862-1937.

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft

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Historian and civic worker (Ohio State University, Columbus, B.A., 1910) Schlesinger was chairman of the Committee on Education of the Cambridge (Mass.) League of Women Voters, on the board of the American Association of University Women of Boston, the Cambridge Public Library, and the Radcliffe Women's Archives (which became the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America), and wrote articles and gave talks on women's history. She married historian Arthur Meier S...

Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

Stantial, Edna Lamprey

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Edna Lamprey Stantial was secretary of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government and archivist of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. As Maud Wood Park's close friend and secretary, ELS helped MWP gather the papers that MWP gave to Radcliffe College in 1943. These papers, the Woman's Rights Collection, formed the nucleus of the Women's Archives, later the Schlesinger Library. Throughout the 1950s, ELS continued to collect, sort, and "catalog" papers tha...

Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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Pacifist and worker for social reform, Balch was involved in many humanitarian and civic organizations, including the Boston Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Papers, 1915-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007140 Peace leader. President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (1928-1933). Received Nobel Peace Prize (1946). ...

Saval, Anna (Bloom)

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Lee, Jennie, 1904-....

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Epithet: politician Title: Baroness Lee of Asheridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x00012f ...

McNulty, William J.

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Cero, Gangi

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Massachusetts. Department of Correction

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Winslow, Gertrude

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Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947

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Washburn, Charles G.

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Ford Hall Forum

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Elmore, Jane

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Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936

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Pacifist and suffragist, Mead devoted much of her life to social reform. She served as president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association (1903-1909) and supported many other organizations, including the Women's Municipal League, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston), the Consumers' League, the NAACP, and the American Civil Liberties Union. She was also vice president of the National Council for the Prevention of War, a director of the American Peace Society, and secretary...

Deland, Lorin Fuller

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Felicani, Aldino, -1967

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Almalgamated Textile Workers of America

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Kittredge, Mabel Hyde, 1867-1955

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Social worker Mabel Hyde Kittredge was born in Boston, Mass., the daughter of Abbott Elliot and Margaret Ann Hyde Kittredge. She was founder, in 1901, and president of the Association of Practical Housekeeping Centers in New York City, and in 1908 inaugurated lunches in New York elementary schools. From the description of Papers, 1955, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122471170 ...

Patrick, Tracy

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Hodder, Jessie Donaldson, 1870-1931.

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Bates, Sanford, 1884-1972

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Lee, Margaret Cabot, 1866-1920.

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Brin, Alexander, 1895-

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Cannon, Ida M. (Ida Maud), 1877-

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Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939

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Richard Clarke Cabot, 1868-1939, AB, 1889, Harvard College; MD, 1892, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics at Harvard. Cabot led the teaching of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1920 to 1934. Cabot also served as one of two chiefs of staff at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1912 until his retirement in 1921. Cabot established medical social work at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905, and also introduced autopsy teaching at the institution; Cabot's cli...

O'Sullivan, Mary (Kenney), 1864-1945

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Dewson, Molly, 1874-1962

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Mary Williams Dewson was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Wellesley College in 1897. At the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston) she studied ways to professionalize housework. She was the first head of the parole department (1900-1912) of the Massachusetts State Industrial School for Girls (Lancaster), and worked for a minimum wage in Massachusetts and later with the National Consumers' League. She also worked for woman suffrage, and with the American Red Cross in France, 19...

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Almy, Helen Jackson Cabot, 1856-1938.

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Almy was a prominent Bostonian who was the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot, and the wife of a judge, Charles Almy. A member of the Mothers' Club of Cambridge, she was active in the establishment of playgrounds and vacation schools in Cambridge from 1899 to 1910, when the city took over the program. From the description of Papers, 1899-1920 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122470908 ...

Dreyfus, Carl, 1876-1953

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Boeckel, Florence Brewer, 1885-

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Consumers' League of Massachusetts.

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The League, established in 1898, sought to mobilize public opinion in support of improved conditions for workers. From the description of Records, 1891-1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006555 ...

La Follette, Philip Fox, 1897-1965

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Epithet: Governor of Wisconsin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00029b ...

Rotzel, Harold L.

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Brooks, John Graham, 1846-1938

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Unitarian minister, writer on social and economic topics, and founder of the National Consumers' League, Brooks attended Oberlin College and received a degree in divinity from Harvard in 1875. He lectured for the League for Political Education, investigated strikes for the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and studied in Germany. From the description of Papers, 1845-1938 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006931 Unitarian minister, writer on social and economic top...

Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946

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American journalist. From the description of Letter : to the Cosmos Club, 1910 Mar. 31. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122545959 American journalist and author who also wrote under the name David Grayson. From the description of [Notebooks] [microform]. 1880-1946. WorldCat record id: 36820111 American author and journalist. He is also known by the pseudonym David Grayson. Fr...

Massachusetts Cotton Mills.

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Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927

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Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927

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"The attached letter was written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti in his death cell at Charlestown State Prison August 12, 1927--just ten days before he and Nicola Sacco died in the electric chair for the murder of a paymaster and his guard. Henry Minott, the New England News manager of the United Press, asked Vanzetti to write his side of the case, which had been in the Massachusetts courts for seven years. Vanzetti's letter was distributed throughout the world over the United Press wires. Penciled delet...

Van Waters, Miriam

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Penologist (University of Oregon, B.A., 1908, M.A., 1910; Clark University, Ph. D., 1913) Van Waters was superintendent of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham MA (1932-1957). She was also director (1919-1920) of El Retiro, a school for delinquent girls in Calif., referee (1920-1930) for the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, director of the juvenile delinquency section of the Harvard Law School Crime Survey (1926-1930s), consultant on juvenile delinquency for the Wickersham Commission (1928-...

Cohn, Fannia M., 1888-1962.

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Walsh, David I. (David Ignatius), 1872-1947

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Cabot, Ella Lyman

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Author and educator, Ella Lyman Cabot was born into one prominent Boston family and married into another; her husband was Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939). She taught ethics and applied psychology at Boston private schools and directed the Sunday school at Unitarian King's Chapel. Cabot published seven books on ethics and childhood education and had privately printed a 3 volume biography of her parents. From the description of Papers, 1855-1934 (inclusive). (Harvard University). ...

Whitman, Sarah Wyman, -1904

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Massachusetts. Department of Mental Diseases

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Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905

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Josephine Shaw Lowell, civic volunteer, born in West Roxbury, Mass., in 1843, brother of Robert Gould Shaw and widow of Colonel Charles Robert Lowell, was active as a social reformer in New York City. She was the first woman appointed to the New York State Board of Charities and founder of the New York Charity Organization Society and the Woman's Municipal League of New York City. From the description of Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 2320073...

Holcombe, Arthur N. (Arthur Norman), 1884-1977

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Holcombe graduated from Harvard in 1906 and taught government at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur N. Holcombe, 1932-1972 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973068 Arthur Norman Holcombe (1884-1977), educator and government official, held teaching posts at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the College of Europe, University of California, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. H...

Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967

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Clergyman, pacifist. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741542 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681124 A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919. When he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrenc...

Brooks, Susan M.

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Ehrmann, Sara Rosenfeld, 1895-

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Civic worker, Ehrmann helped found the League of Women Voters of Brookline, MA, and was active primarily in the movement to abolish capital punishment, as well as in prison reform, and the American Jewish Committee. From the description of Papers, 1910-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122470982 ...

La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1895-1953

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Brandeis, Alice (Goldmark), ? -1945

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Miller, Dickinson Sergeant, 1868-1963

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Miller was professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226054851 Dickinson Sergeant Miller (1868-1963) was a professor of philosophy and a writer. In 1889 received an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. and A.M. in 1892 from Harvard. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Halle in 1893. After returning to the United States...

Macdonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937

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British Prime Minister. From the description of Letters (6) : London, to Harold Picton, 1931-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270972304 Epithet: Prime Minister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x0001c1 Margaret Macdonald (nee Gladstone), 1870-1911, was educated largely at home. As a young woman, she was involved in various branches of voluntary social work, including ...

Livingstone, Alice

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Kelley, Nicholas, 1885-1965

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Nicholas Kelley (1885-1965) was a New York City lawyer and civic leader. He served as an official of the U.S. Treasury Dept. from 1918 to 1921. In his private law practice, Kelley specialized in corporate law and he also was a director of several companies, most notably the Chrysler Corporation from 1937 to 1957. He was active in civic associations, civil service reform groups, consumer leagues, and legal organizations. Florence Kelley (1859-1932), Nicholas Kelley's mother, was a social reformer...

Kent, Elizabeth

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Epithet: Miss sister-in-law of J H Leigh Hunt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00023a ...

Lyman, Susan Channing (Cabot)

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

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In 1937 a group known as the Players of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union wrote, produced and starred in Pins and Needles, a "witty and tuneful" musical revue satirizing organized labor in general and the ILGWU in particular. Numbers include "Sing us a song with social significance," Doin' the reactionary," and "One big union for two." The play was so successful that it was given a regular run at the Labor Stage in New York, with new skits and songs added periodically to keep the ...

James, Alice Howe Gibbens

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Putnam, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1844-1914

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Lyman, Arthur T., 1894-

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Mussey, Henry Raymond, 1875-1940

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Carey, Arthur Astor, 1857-1923

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Grady, Alice, 1873-1934.

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Gardiner family

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Community Church, Boston

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Murray, Lady Mary, -1956

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Lurie, Reuben L. (Reuben Levi)

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Wilkenson, Perle Rous

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James, Henry, 1879-1947

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Nephew of the novelist Henry James. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Peru, Vt., to Professor [Kenneth B.] Murdock, 1943 Sept. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270693513 United States representative, Inter-Allied Danube River Commission, 1919. From the description of Henry James papers, 1918-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868854 Henry James was the son of William James and nephew of the novelist Henry James. ...

Roehrer, Joseph

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Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1888-1965

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Schlesinger taught history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr., 1908-1965 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973175 Historian, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Meier Schlesinger : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724638 Epithet: Jr, US political analyst British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue...

Davis, Anna N.

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Brown, Herman LaRue, 1883-1969.

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Attorney in Boston, Assistant Attorney of the U.S.; Gen. Solicitor for U.S. Railroad Administration, 1919-1921; Special Counsel, 1921-1925; Consultant, Office of Defense Transportation, 1942; Special Ass't. to the U.S. Ambassador, London, England, 1942-1946. From the description of Papers, 1890-1969. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236047251 Brown, [Herman] LaRue, lawyer and public servant. Decembe...

Slade, Madeleine (Mirabai), 1892-

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Wehle, Louis B. (Louis Brandeis), 1880-1959

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Lawyer and government official. From the description of Papers, 1877-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525232 ...

Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943

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Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), nee Potter, social reformer and diarist. Married to Sidney Webb, pioneers of social science. She was involved in many spheres of political and social activity including the Labour Party, Fabianism, social observation, investigations into poverty, development of socialism, the foundation of the National Health Service and post war welfare state, the London School of Economics, and the New Statesman . From the guide to the Beatrice Webb, A summer holiday in S...

Hill, Arthur Dehon, 1869-

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Lawyer, army officer, and law teacher, of Boston, Mass.; summer resident of Portsmouth, N.H.; d. 1947. From the description of Papers, 1906-1944 (bulk 1906-1941). (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70940725 ...

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

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Epithet: US journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000092 Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette. His father ...

Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey, 1888-1981.

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Long, Cedric

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Curtis, Frances Greely, 1867-1957

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Voluntary Defenders Committeee

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Kellog, Paul Underwood, 1879-1950

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Porter, Margaret (Peggy)

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Franfurter, Marion (Denman), -1975

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Cabot, Lucy

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Brookwood Labor College

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The Brookwood Labor College, 1920-1938, was a two year residential school for workers, affiliated with the American Labor Education Service and held at Katonah, N.Y. The faculty, organized as the Brookwood Labor College (Local 189 of the American Federation of Teachers, American Federation of Labor) consisted of executives and specialists from various unions, government agencies, and faculty of universities and colleges. The curriculum included courses in journalism, Eng...

Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

Putnam, Elizabeth (Cabot), 1836-1922

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Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Director of Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Miss Wald retired from active directorship in 1932. From the guide to the Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1895-1936, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a public health nurse and social worker in New York City on the Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of...

Moors, Ethel

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Fosdick, Frederick W.

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Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts.

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Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Political reformer. From the description of Reminiscences of Roger Nash Baldwin : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721453 From the description of Reminiscences of Roger Nash Baldwin : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721472 From the description of Reminiscences of Roger Nash Baldwin : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). Wor...

Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1885-1972

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Diplomat. From the description of Reminiscences of Francis Bowes Sayre : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725093 Diplomat and statesman. From the description of Papers of Francis Bowes Sayre, 1861-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060652 Biographical Note 1885, Apr. 30 Born, South Bethleh...

Burleigh, Edith N.

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Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927

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Morse, Frances Rollins, 1850-1928

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A social work volunteer, Morse helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated with the School of Social Work at Simmons College. From the description of Papers, 1831-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006748 Frances Rollins Morse (1850-1928) was the daughter of Samuel Tapley and Harriet Jackson (Lee) Morse. She was very active in the field of social work. She helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated wi...

Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964

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American clergyman and reformer. From the description of The voice of God is calling : autograph poem signed, 1930 Nov. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269557327 John Haynes Homes (1879-1964) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1902 and Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He received honorary doctorates from Benares Hindu University, Rollins College, and Meadville Theological School. He served as...

World Center For Women's Archive, Inc.

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Springfield Republican.

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Luscomb, Florence Hope, 1887-

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