Papers, 1895-1990

Cambridge (Mass.). School Committee

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Cambridge Civic Association

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Wise, Henry

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Henry Wise was born on July 14, 1896 in Boston’s South End. He attended and graduated from the Boston Latin School, Harvard College in 1918, and Harvard Law School in 1921. In 1927 he married Pearl Katz, a civic and political leader in her own right. (Her papers are now at Harvard’s Schlesinger Archives.) Over the course of his career, he became involved with a number of unions around Massachusetts. In particular, he became a member of the Stenographs’ and Bookkeepers’ Union Dele...

Sanborn, Agnes Goldman, 1887-1984.

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Agnes Goldman Sanborn was born in New York City on August 30, 1887, the youngest daughter of Julius and Sarah Adler Goldman. Active in civic and humanitarian causes, Sanborn (Bryn Mawr, B.A., 1909; Columbia University, M.A., 1913; New York University, Ph.D. in bacteriology, 1923) joined the Red Cross in WWI, was a bacteriologist in Palestine (1918-1919), and worked at the New York Board of Health and the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. She was active in the United Jewish Appeal in the...

Wise, Pearl Katz

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League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

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The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 during the National American Suffrage Association convention, just months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. Many founding delegates were from Massachusetts, and participated in local suffrage organizations. These suffrage groups promptly reformed as League chapters. Originally incorporated in 1893, the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association dissolved and regrouped in May 1...

Pearl (Katz) Wise, 1901? -

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Pearl Katz Wise, a Cambridge, Mass., public official, had a long political career in local government. The eldest child of Julius Katz, she was born in Kovno, Russia, in 1900 or 1901. She emigrated with her mother and two older siblings, Benjamin and Abraham, to Boston, Mass., in 1905. Two other sisters, Ruth and Anna, were born in the United States. The family settled in Colchester, Conn., where her father and uncle were the village blacksmiths. PKW graduated from Bacon Academy in ...

Wise family

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Cambridge Housing Authority

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Cambridge Civic Association (Mass.)

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Katz family

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Cambridge (Mass.). City Council

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Vellucci, Alfred

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