Mrs. E.P. Turner : clubwoman, reformer, community builder, 1985 Apr. 15.

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Mrs. E.P. Turner : clubwoman, reformer, community builder, 1985 Apr. 15.

Copy of manuscript reviewing the life of Adella Kelsey Turner, who was active in numerous Dallas organizations, president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs (1904), and one of the first women elected to the Dallas Board of Education (1908). Details her advocacy of reforms dealing with child welfare, sanitation, education, and women's suffrage in Dallas, Tex.

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