Mrs. Walter Benona “Estelle Boughton” Sharp Papers 1899-1937

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Flateau, H.

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Federal Food Administration

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Volunteer Prison League

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Deane, John N., Jr.

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Spotts, E. R.

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Bunton, M. O.

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Hogg, William C.

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Sharp, Walter B. (Walter Benona), 1870-1912

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Walter Benona Sharp (1870-1912) was an oilman and inventor. He began his career contracting for the drilling of water wells in and around Dallas before working as a driller for Gladys City Oil and Gas Manufacturing Company in its first test for oil on Spindletop Hill. Because of quicksand Sharp was forced to abandon the well at 418 feet only thirty yards from the spot where, eight years later, the first gusher of the Spindletop oilfield came in. Sharp was also a pioneer driller at Sour Lake and ...

Ellis, A. Caswell (Alexander Caswell), 1871-1948

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Ellis was a graduate student at Clark University with an anthropological interest in doll play. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1896. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226045087 ...

Potts, C. S.

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Jacoby, Henry

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Texas Federation of Women's Clubs

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The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs was chartered at Waco, Texas, on May 13-14, 1897, with Mrs. Edward Rotan as the first president and 21 charter clubs represented. It is now comprised of twelve regional districts. Lubbock, Texas, is in the Caprock District, and the state headquarters are in Austin, Texas. From the description of Records, 1947-1980. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23010861 The largest voluntary association of women in the state, ...

Evans Coles, Josiah

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National League for Women's Service

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War Work Council

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Brooks, R. E.

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Hertzberger, Anna

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Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955

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John Raleigh Mott was born on May 25, 1865 in Livingston Manor, New York to John Stitt and Elmira Dodge Mott. John R. was the third of four children, having two older and one younger sister. The family soon moved to Postville, Iowa, where the elder Mott prospered as a retail lumber and hardware merchant and became mayor. In this conservative, ethnically diverse environment, young Mott grew to mid-adolescence in a home warmed by Methodist "holiness," which faith he confessed...

Gano, Martha

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Curry, M. Hetty

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Sharp, Estelle B. (Estelle Boughton), 1873-1965

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Estelle Boughton Sharp was born in Flint Michigan (1873-1965). She attended Oberlin College before marrying prominent Texas oilman and inventor Walter Benona Sharp in 1897. The couple had 3 children and lived in Dallas before moving to Houston in 1904. Mrs. Sharp was a progressive and an active member of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, the Advisory Board of the Volunteer Prison League, the Federal Food Administration Executive Committee, the War Work Council, the National League for Women...

Floore, Florence

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Campbell, W. T.

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Friend, Kate

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Lathrop, M. E.

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Hart, Hastings H. (Hastings Hornell), 1851-1932

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Consultant in delinquency and penology for the Russell Sage Foundation. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1930-1931. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 237002535 ...