Additional papers of Gertrude Foster Brown, 1732-1956 (inclusive), 1815-1956 (bulk)

Mildred Adams Kenyon (1894-1980), writer, editor and translator, wrote feature articles for the New York Times, was a correspondent for the Economist, London, and the author of The Right To Be People, a history of the women's suffrage movement and other books. Through her aunt, she met Carrie Chapman Catt and became involved in women's rights. She served in the educational division of the Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, and was concerned with foreign affairs in the postwar worl...

Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund

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Ward family.

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Foster family.

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Women's Overseas Hospitals

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During World War I the Women's Overseas Hospitals in France was organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Gertrude Foster Brown became Director-General....

Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800

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Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727 – October 28, 1800) was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. He was considered an effective political leader, President John Adams describing him as "universally esteemed, beloved and confided in by his army and his country." Born in Shrewsbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he attended the common schools before graduating from Harvard College, teaching there briefly after graduation. In 1751, ...

Whitehouse, Vira Boarman, 1875-1957

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Vira Boarman Whitehouse (September 16, 1875 – April 11, 1957) was the owner of the Whitehouse Leather Company, a suffragette, and early proponent of birth control. Vira Boarman was born in Abingdon, Virginia, September 16, 1875, to Robert Boarman and Cornelia Terrell. She attended Newcomb College in New Orleans and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She married New York stockbroker James Norman de Rapelye Whitehouse (1858–1949) on April 13, 1898. They had one child, Alice Whitehouse Harjes. ...

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1899-1979

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Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American writer, monologist, and actress. Born on either May 30, 1899 or 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, Skinner was the daughter of actors Otis Skinner and Maud Durbin. Skinner attended Bryn Mawr College, but left during her sophomore year to move to Paris, where she attended the Sorbonne and studied acting at the Jacques Copeau School and the Comedie Francaise. Skinner began her acting career in 1921, debuting as Dona Sarasate in the stage adapt...

Ansermet, Ernest, 1883-1969

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Swiss conductor. From the description of Document signed, dated : London, 14 June 1921, 1921 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873879 The Orchestre symphonique de Paris was founded in 1929; Calvocoressi prepared the French translation of Boris, eventually for performances in Paris at the Salle Gaveau, 31 December 1935. Cf. Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera. From the description of Letter : to M.D. Calvocoressi, Paris, [between 1929 and 1935] Mar. 20. (Harva...

Ward, Linda Raymond, 1797-1834

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Brown, Marianna Ward, 1825-1923.

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Brown, Gertrude Foster, 1867-1956

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Gertrude (Foster) Brown was born in Morrison, Illinois, on July 29, 1867, to Charles Foster and Anna (Drake) Foster. Musical as a child, Brown studied piano at home and then entered the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, graduating in August 1885 after completing the four-year course in two years. She taught piano for a year at a private school in Dayton, Ohio, then studied in Berlin with Xaver Scharwenka and in Paris with Delaborde. She made her professional debut as a pianist with th...

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Skinner, Otis, 1858-1942

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Otis Skinner (1858-1942) was an American actor and writer. Born June 28, 1858 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was brought up in Hartford, Connecticut where his father Charles Skinner was a Universalist minister. Otis Skinner was interested in theater from a young age, and through his father's friendship with P.T. Barnum was introduced to William Pleater Davidge, who gave him his first theatrical role. In the latter half of the 1870s, he played various bit roles in stock companies, and alongsid...

Raymond family

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Landowska, Wanda

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Polish keyboard player. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667124 ...

Brown, Arthur Raymond, 1865-1944.

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Ward, Benjamin, 1793-1828.

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Caroline Cutler

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Raymond, Linda

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Josephine F. Adams

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Woman Citizen

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Joel Raymond

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Ohio, Marietta

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Eliza Payson

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Bandarlog Press

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Polly (Raymond) Cutler

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Foster Adams

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Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944

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American artist and illustrator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Small, Maynard & Co., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269577087 Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of the "Gibson Girl", an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. Gibson owned a 700-acre estate in Islesboro, Me., where he and his wife spent an increasing amount of tim...

Catherine Fiske

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Sydney A. Reeve

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Sawyer, Sophia, 1792-1853

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Had Sophia Sawyer (1792-1853) chosen a more traditional course she would probably have spent her life as a Yankee schoolmarm. Instead, she combined a passion for education with intense religious zeal to forge a career as teacher and missionary to the Cherokee. Sawyer was born into poverty, but her intellect and ambition won the support of Congregational clergyman Seth Payson and others in her hometown of Rindge, N.H. The Payson and Raymond families took her in and provided for her education a...

Foster family

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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...

Henry Dana Artemas Ward

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Foster, Charlotte

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Ward family

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Brown family

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Kenyon, Mildred (Adams), 1894-1980

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Ward, Henry Dana Artemas

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Raymond, Paul

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Quackenbush, Anna Foster

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Samuel Watson Brown

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Women's Action Committee for a Lasting Peace.

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Phoebe Ward

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Ward, Henry Dana, 1797-1884

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Clergyman and author; rector of St. Jude's Church. From the description of List of communicants and congregation at St. Jude's Church, New York City, 1852. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58672188 Clergyman and author from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; grandson of Artemas Ward. From the description of Notes of a tour from New York to Philadelphia, Washington, Cincinnati [etc.], 1828 Apr. 30-Jun. 13. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat rec...

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