Series IV of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1902-1941 (inclusive).

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 ...

Wells, Dora, 1862-1948

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Dora Wells, first principal (1911-1935) of Lucy Flower Technical High School, Chicago (Ill.)...

Hefferan, Helen Maley, 1870-

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Helen (Maley) Hefferan was born in Carlisle, Pa. in 1870, the daughter of Thomas E. Maley and Sarah T. (Gibbons) Maley. She was educated at the Chicago Normal School and the University of Chicago; in 1892 she married William Stephen Hefferan, a Chicago lawyer. They had three children: William S. Jr., Thomas E.M., and Helen M. HNH taught at the Chicago Normal School for seven years as a professional training teacher. She was a life member of the National Congress of Mot...

Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948

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Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (April 1, 1866 – July 30, 1948) was an American activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science and economics then the J.D. at the University of Chicago, and she was the first woman to pass the Kentucky bar. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent her as a delegate to the 7th Pan-American Conference in Uruguay, making her the first woman to represent t...

Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette), 1864-1953

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Kirkland, E. S. (Elizabeth Stansbury), 1828-1896

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Talbot, Marion, 1858-1948

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B.A., Boston University, 1880; B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1888. Instructor in domestic science, Wellesley College, 1890-1892. Assistant professor of sanitary science, University of Chicago, 1892-1895; associate professor of sanitary science, 1895-1904; associate professor of household administration, 1904-1905; professor of household administration, 1905-1925. Dean of undergraduate women, 1892-1899; dean of women in the University, 1899-1925. President of Association of Collegi...

Reynolds, Myra, 1853-1936

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McMurry, Lida B. (Lida Brown), 1853-1942

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Putnam, Alice Harvey Whiting, 1841-1919.

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Waller, Judith C. (Judith Cary), 1889–1973

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Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902

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Student at University of Michigan, later president of Wellesley College. From the description of Alice Freeman Palmer correspondence, 1874-1900. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419539 ...

Young, Ella Flagg, 1845-1918

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