Hannah Hallowell Clothier Hull (July 21, 1872 – July 4, 1958) was an American clubwoman, feminist, and pacifist, one of the founders and leaders of the Women's Peace Party and the

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Early life

Hannah Hallowell Clothier was born in

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, to

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parents Isaac Hallowell Clothier and Mary Clapp Jackson Clothier. Her father was co-founder of the

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department stores. She graduated from

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in 1891.Bernice Berry Nichols
"Hannah Hallowell Clothier Hull"
in Barbara Sicherman, ed., ''Notable American Women: The Modern Period'' (Harvard University Press 1980): 355-356. Her brother

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was an accomplished tennis player who reached the singles final of the

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three times, winning in 1906.

Career

Hull volunteered at the College Settlement House in Philadelphia after she graduated from Swarthmore. Hull attended the Second Hague Conference for International Peace in 1907. She was chair of the Women's Peace Party in Pennsylvania from 1914 to 1919, through

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. In 1922 she attended the International Conference of Women held at the Hague. From 1928 until 1947, Hull was on the board of the

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. In 1932 Hull was a delegate to

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. She was an officer of the American branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1924 until 1939, and then held the title honorary president until her death in 1958. She was president of the Swarthmore Woman's Club, and chaired the suffrage committee of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women. She was on the board of directors at

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, a Quaker retreat center in

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Personal life

Hannah Clothier married fellow Quaker William Isaac Hull, a political science professor at Swarthmore College in 1898. They had two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Hull was widowed in 1939.

Death

Hull died in 1958, after a heart attack at her home in Swarthmore, aged 85 years. She is buried in the family plot at

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(Summit Section) in

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, Pennsylvania. Her papers are archived in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.Hannah Clothier Hull Papers (DG 016)
, Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

References

External links

Document 13: Hannah Clothier Hull to Dorothy Detzer, February 21, 1928
The Records of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Scholarly Resources Microfilm, reel 47, #876), by Hannah Hallowell Clothier Hull," in "How Did Women Peace Activists respond to 'Red Scare' Attacks during the 1920s?" by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Helen Baker (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1998). Retrieved online via Alexander Street, Bethesda, Maryland, July 11, 2021.

(Collection: DG016), in "Swarthmore College Peace Collection." Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Swarthmore College, retrieved online July 10, 2021.
Hannah Clothier Hull, Isaac H. Clothier, Dr. William I. Hull portraits, undated
, in "Caroline Katzenstein papers (Am.8996)." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, retrieved online July 11, 2021. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hull, Hannah Clothier 1872 births 1958 deaths Clubwomen Quakers from Pennsylvania Suffragists from Pennsylvania American pacifists American women in World War I People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Swarthmore College alumni Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people American Quakers American feminists Quaker feminists 20th-century American people

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