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- Alice Chenoweth, 1853-1925
- Chenoweth, Alice, 1853-1925
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1853-01-21
Death Date
- 1925-07-26
Has Affiliation
- Organization: National American Woman Suffrage Association
Birth Place
- Winchester (Va.)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Lecturers and lecturing
Occupation
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Sources
- found: nuc85-52824: Her Is this your son, my lord? [MI] 1894(heading on NNC report: Gardener, Helen Hamilton, 1858-1925; usage: Helen H. Gardener)
- found: NUC pre-56(hdg.: Gardener, Helen Hamilton Chenoweth, 1853-1925; year of birth changed to 1853 by hand on many records before Catalog was published)
- found: Her Pray you, sir, whose daughter? 1892:title page (Helen H. Gardener)
- found: nuc86-10340: Her Is this your son, my lord? [MI] 1890(heading on LCP report: Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925; usage: Helen H. Gardener)
- found: Notable American women, 1607-1950(Gardener, Helen Hamilton (January 21, 1853-July 26, 1925); born Alice Chenoweth; in 1885 began using pseudonym Helen Hamilton Gardener, a name she used thereafter both privately and professionally and eventually adopted legally)
- found: New York times, July 27, 1925:page 13 (born on a plantation near Winchester, Virginia, January 21, 1853)
- found: Wikipedia website, viewed June 24, 2020:Helen Hamilton Gardener page (an American author, lecturer, civil servant and suffragist; she produced many lectures, articles, and books during the 1880s and 1890s and is remembered today for her role in the women's suffrage movement and for her place as a pioneering woman in the top echelon of the American civil service; born in Winchester, Virginia; father was Rev. Alfred Griffith Chenoweth, an Episcopalian minister; family moved to Greencastle, Indiana in 1855; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in her late teen years, where she graduated high school and then enrolled in the Cincinnati Normal School, from which she graduated in June 1873; she worked as a schoolteacher for two years and married Charles Selden Smart, the Ohio State School Commissioner in 1875; the couple moved to New York City in 1880, where Charles entered the insurance business while Alice attended Columbia University; after her husband's death in 1901 and her second marriage in 1902 to Colonel Selden Allen Day, a retired army officer, she moved to Washington, D.C. in 1907; she eventually became the vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association as chief liaison under the Woodrow Wilson administration, in 1917; in 1920, Wilson appointed her to the United States Civil Service Commission, the first woman to occupy such a high federal position; Gardener died in July 1925 in Washington, D.C. of chronic myocarditis; keeping with her interest in the topic, Gardener's brain was donated for scientific study and is part of the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_H._Gardener
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Change Notes
- 1985-08-30: new
- 2020-06-25: revised
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