Mrs. Walter Benona "Estelle Boughton" Sharp, papers, 1899-1937.

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Texas Federation of Women's Clubs

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The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs was chartered at Waco, Texas, on May 13-14, 1897, with Mrs. Edward Rotan as the first president and 21 charter clubs represented. It is now comprised of twelve regional districts. Lubbock, Texas, is in the Caprock District, and the state headquarters are in Austin, Texas. From the description of Records, 1947-1980. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23010861 The largest voluntary association of women in the state, ...

Ellis, A. Caswell (Alexander Caswell), 1871-1948

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Ellis was a graduate student at Clark University with an anthropological interest in doll play. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1896. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226045087 ...

National League for Women's Service

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Gano, Martha

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Coles, Josiah Evans

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Brooks, R. E.

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Mott, John R.

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Federal Food Administration

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Hart, Hastings H. (Hastings Hornell), 1851-1932

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Consultant in delinquency and penology for the Russell Sage Foundation. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1930-1931. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 237002535 ...

Curry, M. Hetty

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Volunteer Prison League

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Potts, C. S.

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Hogg, William Clifford, 1875-1930

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Beside his many public and private philanthropic endeavors, Hogg was particularly known for his support of the University of Texas as a regent and in its struggle with Governor James E. Ferguson as well as his various efforts through the Ex-students' Association to improve education throughout the state and to support the establishment of student loans. From the guide to the Hogg (William Clifford) Papers HOGG, WILLIAM CLIFFORD, PAPERS., 1897-1932, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American ...

Flateau, H.

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Jacoby, Henry

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Pseudonym: Sebastian Franck; born in Berlin 1905, died in Geneva 1986; trained commercially and as a social worker; member of the anarchist-pacifist Freie Jugend from 1924; cooperated with Ernst Friedrich and his Anti-Kriegsmuseum; influenced by Alfred Adler's Ìndividualpsychologie'; maintained contact with Alice and Otto Rühle; joined the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) in 1930; worked illegally after the Nazi take-over with the dissident communist Landau group, was arrested and serv...

Bunton, M. O.

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Friend, Kate.

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War Work Council

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Hertzberger, Anna

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Sharp, Estelle B. (Estelle Boughton), 1873-1965

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Estelle Boughton Sharp was born in Flint Michigan (1873-1965). She attended Oberlin College before marrying prominent Texas oilman and inventor Walter Benona Sharp in 1897. The couple had 3 children and lived in Dallas before moving to Houston in 1904. Mrs. Sharp was a progressive and an active member of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, the Advisory Board of the Volunteer Prison League, the Federal Food Administration Executive Committee, the War Work Council, the National League for Women...

Lathrop, M. E

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Deane, John N., Jr.

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Floore, Florence

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Spotts, E. R.

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Sharp, Walter B. (Walter Benona), 1870-1912

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Walter Benona Sharp (1870-1912) was an oilman and inventor. He began his career contracting for the drilling of water wells in and around Dallas before working as a driller for Gladys City Oil and Gas Manufacturing Company in its first test for oil on Spindletop Hill. Because of quicksand Sharp was forced to abandon the well at 418 feet only thirty yards from the spot where, eight years later, the first gusher of the Spindletop oilfield came in. Sharp was also a pioneer driller at Sour Lake and ...

Campbell, W. T. (William Theus)

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