Mary Heftel Hooton papers, 1938-1991.

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Hooton, Mary Heftel, 1919-1993. Mary Heftel Hooton papers, 1938-1991.

Mary Heftel Hooton papers, 1938-1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713357703

Correspondence and other papers of Mary Heftel Hooton, a Chicago lawyer and Cook County Circuit Court judge. Includes materials about Hooton's judicial elections (1976-1988); materials from organizations (the Joint Committee on the Women's Court and Detention Home, Chicago; the Citizens Committee for Children and Parents Under Stress; the Citizens Committee for Battered Children; and the Juvenile Delinquent Committee of the Chicago Bar Association) and state agencies interested in juvenile delinquency issues; materials connected with Hooton's admission to the bar in 1943; personal letters to Hooton from her first two husbands, one of whom (Edward Kingsley) served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II; and miscellaneous materials from her third husband, William Heftel, a Chicago lawyer. Several cassette tapes are present in boxes 10 and 11.

8 linear ft. (16 boxes)

Chicago History Museum