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Martha Gilmore Robinson (August 18, 1888 – February 1981) was an American women's rights and civic activist, who founded the Silver Thimble Fund of America, the Woman Citizens' Union, co-founded the Louisiana Landmarks Society, and was president of Louisiana's
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Biography

Robinson was born in
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, on August 18, 1888, the daughter of attorney and
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Samuel Louis Gilmore, and his wife, Martha Frazier Nolan Gilmore. She was educated there at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, and at
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, from where she graduated in 1909. She married Robert Gibson Robinson, a graduate of
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, and the owner of a successful lumber business. They had four sons and a daughter.


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1888 births 1981 deaths Academy of the Sacred Heart (New Orleans, Louisiana) alumni H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College alumni Politicians from New Orleans Schools of the Sacred Heart alumni Women in Louisiana politics Activists from Louisiana {{US-activist-stub