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Founder and Presidents, Chicago Woman's Club. The Chicago Woman's Club was formed in 1876 by women in Chicago who were interested in "self and social improvement." [1] The club was notable for creating educational opportunities in the Chicago region and helped create the first juvenile court in the United States. [1]
Putting women onto school boards was part of many women's club agendas in the late 1800s [122] and early 1900s. [123] Women's groups also influenced discussions about classroom size; the Chicago Woman's City Club asking that there be no more than thirty children per class. [124] Chicago clubs also helped sponsor school lunches for students. [125]
She then started her own business, The Margaret Mary Morgan Printing Company, at 619 California Street. [2] In 1918 the national board of the Young Women’s Christian Association asked her to look into the welfare of women and children in China. She became the first woman ever elected to the Board of Supervisors, San Francisco's governing body ...
Mary Margaret Bartelme (July 24, 1866 – July 25, 1954) was an American judge and lawyer, who was a pioneer in the area of juvenile justice. She was first appointed Cook County Public Guardian in 1897, where she worked to find suitable homes for orphaned children and managed minor children's estates. [ 1 ]
Women's rights advocate and supporter of physical education for girls. [56] Aleksandra Kollantay: 1872 Russia Margaret Sanger Women's rights activist, and socialist. [57] She fled Russia in 1905 and lived in Germany, advocating women's issues. After the 1917 Revolution she returned to Russia and was elected Commissar of Social Welfare. [58]
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Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart (Woodlands, WA, or WASH) is a private, Roman Catholic girls' high school in Lake Forest, Illinois, north of Chicago.Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart, it is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago but is run by lay staff with several Sisters sitting on the Board of Trustees.
It is the oldest women's association in Chicago. [2] Kate Newell Doggett served as the first president from 1873 through 1879. Early members include Jane Addams, Janet H. Ayer, Amanda M. Bliss, Susan M. Hamilton, Ellen Martin Henrotin, Ellen R. Jewitt, Mary Hunt Loomis, Emily (Mrs. Franklin) MacVeagh, Bertha Palmer, and Mary Wilmarth. [1]