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Anne Withington
Anne Toppan Withington (January 17, 1867 – January 12, 1933) was an American activist in the causes of peace, women's suffrage, and organized labor. She served on the executive board of the Massachusetts Political Equality Union, and was a member of the American delegations to the International Congress of Women meetings in The Hague in 1915, and in Zürich in 1919. Early life and education Withington was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nathan Noyes Withington and Elizabeth Little Withington. Her father, a newspaper editor, teacher, and local historian, served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Her paternal grandfather was clergyman Leonard Withington. Her older brother Lothrop Withington was an editor and historian who died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Her nephew Paul Withington was a medical doctor and college football coach. Career Withington worked at Jane Addams' Hull House settlement in Chicago as a young woman. She established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Withington
Leonard Withington (August 9, 1789 – April 22, 1885) was an American Congregationalist minister and author; he is credited with writing the hymn, “O Savior of a world undone”. Withington, son of Joseph W. and Elizabeth (White) Withington, was born in Dorchester, Mass., August 9, 1789, and died in Newbury, Mass., April 22, 1885, in his 96th year, being the last survivor of the Yale College Class of 1814, and older than any other surviving graduate at the time of his death, as well as the oldest Congregational clergyman in the country. After serving an apprenticeship as a printer, Withington entered Phillips Academy, Andover in 1809, graduating in 1811. Having thus acquired an ambition for a literary life, he matriculated at Yale as a sophomore. While in college he decided to enter the ministry, and accordingly upon graduation in 1814 pursued such studies with President Timothy Dwight and with his own pastor, the Rev. Dr. Codman, and also for a few months at Andover Theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Foley (suffragist)
Margaret Lillian Foley (February 19, 1873 - June 14, 1957) was an Irish-American labor organizer, suffragist, and social worker from Boston. Known for confronting anti-suffrage candidates at political rallies, she was nicknamed the "Grand Heckler." Early life Margaret Foley was born to Peter and Mary Foley on February 19, 1873, in the Meeting House Hill section of Dorchester. She and her sister, Celia, grew up in Roxbury and attended Girls' High School. An aspiring singer, she paid for voice lessons out of her earnings at a hat factory; her ''Boston Globe'' obituary describes her as "a singer of note". Family obligations took her to California, where she worked as a swimming and gymnastics teacher. When she returned to Boston she resumed her old job and became active in the trade union movement, eventually serving on the board of the Boston Women's Trade Union League. She also became an outspoken advocate for women's suffrage. Women's suffrage Foley was one of the few Iris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Deaths
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "Pakistan, Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 Births
There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska. When the territory transferred from the Russian Empire to the United States, the calendric transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar was made with only 11 days instead of 12 during the 19th century. This change was made due to the territorial and Geopolitics, geopolitical shift from the Asian to the American side of the International Date Line. Friday, 6 October 1867 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Friday again on 18 October 1867 (instead of Saturday, 19 October 1867 in the Gregorian Calendar). Events January * January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983. * January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Newburyport is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston. The population was 18,289 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. A historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island (Massachusetts), Plum Island. The mooring, winter storage, and maintenance of recreational boats, motor and sail, still contribute a large part of the city's income. A United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard station oversees boating activity, especially in the sometimes dangerous tidal currents of the Merrimack River. At the edge of the Newbury Marshes, delineating Newburyport to the south, an industrial park provides a wide range of jobs. Newburyport is on a major north–south highway, Interstate 95 in Massachusetts, Interstate 95. The outer circumferential highway of Boston, Interstate 495 (Massachusetts), Interstate 495, passes nearby in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Amesbury. The Newburyport Turnpike (U.S. Route 1 in Mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Henry Demarest Lloyd (May 1, 1847 – September 28, 1903) was an American journalist and political activist who was a prominent muckraker during the Progressive Era. He is best known for his exposés of Standard Oil which were written before Ida Tarbell's series for ''McClure's'' on the same topic. Early life Henry Demarest Lloyd was born on May 1, 1847, in the home of his maternal grandfather on Sixth Avenue in New York City. Henry was the first child of Aaron Lloyd, a graduate of Rutgers College Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College and was aff ... and New Brunswick Theological Seminary and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Maria Christie ( Demarest) Lloyd. One of Lloyd's strongest formative influences was the preaching of Henry Ward Beecher, whose sermons he regularly att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Pan Pacific Conference On Education, Rehabilitation, Reclamation And Recreation
The First Pan Pacific Conference on Education, Rehabilitation, Reclamation and Recreation was held in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii from April 11 to 16, 1927. Convened by President Calvin Coolidge, it was the first official conference held in Honolulu called by the head of a Pacific government. The conference was designed for the consideration of problems relating to Education, Rehabilitation, Reclamation and Recreation. Invited delegates hailed from all countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean. It was the first time that Hawaii held a conference of this size. Conference headquarters were at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Development Two unofficial but pioneer Pan-Pacific Educational Conferences were called in Honolulu in 1921 by the Pan-Pacific Union and in San Francisco in 1923. Governor Wallace R. Farrington of Hawaii had been anxious for a number of years to have President Coolidge and officials of the United States Department of the Interior visit Hawaii, so that they might have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
