Papers, 1920-1942
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McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945
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Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch (June 4, 1862 – April 20, 1945) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and reformer. She actively lobbied for women's suffrage at the local, state, and national levels as a leader in the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Chicago Political Equality League, and National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was the first woman elected Justice of the Peace in Illinois. Born in 1862 in Ransomville, New York as Catherine Gouger Waugh, she entered Rockford Colleg...
Harriett Reid
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Harriett Reid, lawyer in Springfield, Ill., from 1920 to 1937 served as an arbitrator on the Illinois Industrial Commission (IIC), a civil service position dealing with workmen's compensation cases. In 1920 the Illinois State Civil Service Commission had refused to hire HR because she was a woman; her friend, Catharine Waugh McCulloch (CWM), helped her fight the decision and win her appointment. It appears that HR gave CWM these papers in the 1940s. From the guide to the...
Illinois. Industrial Commission (1917- )
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