Series III of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1890-1945 (inclusive).

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Series III of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1890-1945 (inclusive).

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Collection includes half-tone portraits and directories of women lawyers in Illinois, and articles, correspondence, etc. about them. Most of the biographical sketches appear to have been written by Harte for a chapter on lawyers in a proposed book by Catharine Waugh McCulloch about eminent Illinois women. There is little information in this series or elsewhere about Harte herself.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Dillon, Mary Earhart, 1898-1992

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Mary Earhart Dillon was born Ferburary 5, 1898. While an assistant professor of political science, Mary Earhart Dillon wrote Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (published under the name Mary Earhart by University of Chicago Press in 1944). Due to the difficulty of finding primary source material, Dillon contacted various women in the Midwest (especially the Chicago lawyer and suffragist, Catharine Waugh McCulloch) who had been active in temperance, woman's suffrage, and related movements ...

Harte, Grace H.

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Chicago lawyer Grace H. Harte was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1912. She specialized in real estate law, was a member of the Women Lawyers' Association (WLA), and the Lawyers' Association of Illinois, and president of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI). In the 1930s and 1940s, she wrote articles for the WLA publication, the Women Lawyers' Journal. She was active in the WBAI's successful 1930s campaign to make the inclusion of women on juries mandatory and apparently had a special ...

Bartelme, Mary Margaret, 1866-1954.

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Robinson, Lelia Josephine, 1850-1891

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Lelia Josephine Robinson, lawyer and author, was born in Boston on July 25, 1850, educated in the Boston public schools, and graduated from Boston University Law School in June 1881. After an unsuccessful application to the Massachusetts bar to practice law, Robinson opened an independent practice on the basis of her law school diploma. She appeared before the state legislature in support of a law to admit women to the bar on the same terms as men. The law was passed in 1882 and she received a l...

Bradwell, Myra, 1831-1894

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First female attorney in Illinois; established and edited Chicago Legal News; admitted to practice before U.S. Supreme Court, 1892. From the description of Letter: Chicago, [Ill.], to John M. Palmer, 1870 Jan. 22. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418166 First female attorney in Illinois; established and edited Chicago Legal News; admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1892. From the description of James and Myra Bradwell ...

Goodell, Lavinia

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Women's Bar Association of Illinois

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Hulett, Alta M., 1854-1877.

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