Records of the Junior League of Boston, 1897-1994

Sewing Circle League.

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Lawrence, Sarah, active 1800-1850

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Tiernan, Kip.

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Founder of Rosie's Place, Boston Food Bank and the Poor People's United Fund, Kip Tiernan was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1926. She was raised by her grandmother, following the death of both her parents by age eleven. Her grandmother was instrumental in teaching Tiernan to care for the less fortunate and in bringing out Tiernan's artistic and musical talent. Raised as a Catholic, Tiernan attended several parochial schools as well as public and boarding schools, but never grad...

Schuller, Gunther, 1925-2015

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The son of German immigrants, Gunther Schuller was born in New York on November 22, 1925. His professional music career began as a horn player, performing with the American Ballet Theater, as principal horn in the Cincinnati Symphony (1943-1945) and with the Metropolitan Opera from 1945-1959. Schuller's jazz career also began as a French horn player on Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool recording (1949-1950). As an educator, Schuller first taught at the Manhattan School of Music from 1950-1953. Fro...

Tiernan, Kip

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Family Welfare Society of Boston.

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Sewing Circle League.

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Gilday Center

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American Humane Association

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Organized in 1877 to protect children and animals from abuse, cruelty, neglect and exploitation, this is the only group in the United States that works to protect both. This record was compiled for the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. From the description of Record, 1893. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 50068568 ...

Andros House

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Association of Junior Leagues

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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). ...

Griswold, Harriet, 1904-

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Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

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Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....

Updike, John

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American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...

Massachusetts Hospital School

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The Massachusetts School and Home for Crippled and Deformed Children, established in 1904, opened at Canton in 1907 as the Massachusetts Hospital School. Since 1932 it has been known officially as the Massachusetts Hospital School and Hospital for State Minor Wards. From the description of Annual reports, 1908-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505931 St 1904, c 446 established the Massachusetts School and Home for Crippled and Deformed Children, under the supervision o...

Hicks, Lucile

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Merrimack Valley Legal Services

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Snowden, Muriel S. (Muriel Sutherland), 1916-

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Social reformer. From the description of Reminiscences of Muriel S. Snowden: oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131836 Muriel S. and Otto P. Snowden were the founders and co-directors of Freedom House, a center for neighborhood improvement and community activism in the racially mixed neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts. From 1949 until their retirement in 1984, the Snowdens were influential lea...

Lawrence, Sarah

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Junior League of Boston

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A voluntary organization of women engaged in service to the community, the Junior League of Boston grew out of the Sewing Circle League (1907), was renamed (1916), and incorporated (1922). With a current focus on serving the arts, women, and children, the League has channelled the energies of women into socially useful work and trained them in administration of voluntary projects. From the description of [Videotape collection] [videorecording]. 1981-1988. (Harvard University). WorldC...

Condit, Nancy

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New England Medical Center

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O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-2023

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Sandra Day O’Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 1930. She married John Jay O’Connor III in 1952 and has three sons - Scott, Brian, and Jay. She received her B.A. and LL.B. from Stanford University. She served as Deputy County Attorney of San Mateo County, California from 1952–1953 and as a civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center, Frankfurt, Germany from 1954–1957. From 1958–1960, she practiced law in Maryvale, Arizona, and served as Assistant Attorney General of Arizona from ...