Records, 1908-1930 (bulk 1913-1923).

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Records, 1908-1930 (bulk 1913-1923).

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Minutes, 1920-1923, including inserted supporting documentation; candidate questionnaires, 1920, 1923 and undated; a draft constitution, 1928; and miscellaneous other records, 1919-1922, 1930 and undated, consisting primarily of correspondence and publications. Also records of its predecessor organization, the Women's Political Union of Newark, consisting of correspondence, 1908 and 1913-1918 (including circa 60 letters of thanks received from soldiers); minutes, 1916, of an umbrella organization known as the Essex County Women's Political Union of New Jersey; and miscellaneous other records, 1916. Among the persons represented in the records are Jane Addams (primarily correspondence from and about her which concerns speaking engagements), Florence Haines (various documents which involve her as an official of the organization) and Anna Howard Shaw (correspondence which chiefly relates to speaking engagements in New Jersey).

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Essex County Women's Political Union of New Jersey.

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Women's Political Union of Newark

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Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919

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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Born in northern England in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1847, her family left England and immigrated to the United States. In their new country, the Shaws made several moves. After settling in the bustling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, they uprooted again, this time ...

Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (New York, N.Y.)

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Haines, Florence L. 1869-1955.

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Newark League of Women Voters.

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Organized in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, in 1908 as an affiliate of the New York-based Equality League of Self-Supporting Women; subsequently (in 1913 or before) adopted the name Women's Political Union of New Jersey; evidently became the Newark Branch of the Women's Political Union of New Jersey in 1915 when the several independent branches apparently effected a "plan of union" (creating a state executive board made up of branch presidents) under the name Women's Political Union of New Je...