Papers, 1843-1954.

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Papers, 1843-1954.

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Bulk of papers document Philbrook's lobbying efforts for an equal rights amendment in the 1930s and 1940s: letters, newspaper clippings, fliers and position papers of educational associations, women's clubs, and the National Woman's Party, as well as other women's rights organizations. Correspondents include: Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, Edna B. Conklin, Emma E. Dillon, Beatrice Winser, Robert C. Hendrickson, N.J. Governors A. Harry Moore and Walter E. Edge, Evelyn Seufert, Albert W. Hawkes and H. Alexander Smith. Autobiographical essays, letters and scrapbook materials document Philbrook's childhood, early career and family history, as well as her involvement with Whittier House, the American Red Cross, genealogy, women's history, and the suffrage movement. Also, papers detailing her activities in the N.J. Women Lawyer's Club, The College Club of Jersey City (N.J.), the Betsy Ross Building and Loan Association, the N.J. Center for Women's Archives, and the American Registry.

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National Woman's Party

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Seufert, Evelyn

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Hawkes, Albert W. (Albert Wahl), 1878-1971

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Whittier House Social Settlement (Jersey City, N.J.)

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Whittier House Social Settlement in Jersey City (Essex County), the first settlement house in New Jersey, was founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford (1847-1935) in 1894. Whittier House workers, including social reformer Mary Philbrook, maintained residence in the settlement house, developing programs based on the specific needs of the largely immigrant Jersey City community. Programs included the city's first free kindergarten, legal assistance for the poor, a circulating library, a me...

Dillon, Emma E. (Emma Elizabeth)

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Betsy Ross Building and Loan Association.

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Smith, H. Alexander (Howard Alexander), 1880-1966

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Senator, lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Howard Alexander Smith : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725674 Howard Alexander Smith (b. Jan. 30, 1880, N.Y.C.-d. Oct. 27, 1966, Princeton, N.J.), U.S. Senator from New Jersey, graduated from Princeton University and the Columbia University law school. After practicing law in Colorado he served in the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. He was execut...

American Red Cross

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

American Registry.

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Philbrook, Mary

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Mary Philbrook (1872-1958), a prominent Newark, N.J. (Essex County) lawyer, women's rights activist and social reformer. Philbrook, the first woman admitted to the bar in N.J. in 1895, acted as counsel for the legal aid society of Whittier House Social Settlement, where her work led to the formation of the New Jersey Legal Aid Association. In 1906, she became the first N.J. woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Philbrook lobbied for penal reforms for women and children, worke...

Winser, Beatrice, 1869-1947

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Conklin, Edna B.

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Hendrickson, Robert C. (Robert Clymer), 1898-1964

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Robert Clymer Hendrickson was an American lawyer and U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He also served on the New Jersey Constitutional Revision Commission and, as a senior legal officer in the U.S. Army in North Africa, Italy and Austria, worked on the re-establishment of civil rights and local courts, the implementation of de-nazification programs and the care of displaced persons. Born on August 12, 1898, the son of Daniel and Emma (Megary) Hendrickson, he attended high sc...