Papers, 1917-1970 (inclusive).

Cook, Elizabeth Ellsworth, 1884-1981.

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Pacifist, suffragist, and businesswoman Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook was born in Winona, Minn., the daughter of Charles Button and Lucy Ellsworth Cook. She attended public schools in Ithaca, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University (A.B. 1908). She went to work in New York City as a statistician for Harris, Forbes, and Co., and in 1916 became a sales manager for Hemphill, Noyes, and Co., an investment securities firm. A vice-president of the Women's Political Union, she was the first president of...

Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940

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Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (b. Jan. 20, 1856, Seneca Falls, NY–d. Nov. 20, 1940, Greenwich, CT) was the daughter of activists Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in mathematics in 1878. She married Harry Blatch and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her daughter, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering. While in England, Blatch conducted a statistical study of rural English working ...

Cornell University

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Women's Bond Club of New York.

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Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)

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Women's Peace Union

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The Women's Peace Union (WPU), founded in 1921, was a national organization committed to personal refusal to support war and to promote legislation outlawing war. The WPU was in favor of total independent disarmament by the U.S. and its main program was the passage of a constitutional amendment, known as the Independent Disarmament Amendment, which would make war, preparation for war or appropriations for war illegal. The WPU ceased operations in 1940. From the guide to the Women's P...