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Mary Booth (1869–1956) was an Australian physician, clubwoman and welfare worker.

Edith Vosburgh Alvord (1875-1962) was an American suffragist and active Detroit clubwoman.

Mary "Mamie" J. Dillard (1874-1954) was an American educator, clubwoman and suffragist.

Rachel Irene Benshoof Seibert, Ph.G., (September 3, 1876 - November 29, 1967) was a clubwoman.

Olivia Stokes Hatch (1908 – October 17, 1983) was an American philanthropist, clubwoman, and travel writer.

Pauline Arnoux MacArthur (1867 – May 22, 1941) was an American clubwoman, writer, pianist and librettist.

Lydia Flood Jackson (June 6, 1862 – July 8, 1963) was an American businesswoman, suffragist, and clubwoman.

Genevieve Hillen Sanford (May 26, 1883 - August 15, 1966) was a clubwoman active in civic affairs.

Idael Childers Makeever (December 7, 1867 – August 23, 1954) was an American poet, songwriter, journalist and clubwoman.

Meta E. Pelham (1855–1941) was an American journalist and clubwoman. She wrote for the Detroit Plaindealer.

Mabel B. Dunn Laura Mabel Blackstock Dunn (August 7, 1880 - April 9, 1968) was an American clubwoman.

Georgina G. Marriott Georgina Petrina Geertsen Marriott (born June 29, 1865) was a Utah teacher and clubwoman.

Mary Mossell Griffin (c. 1885 — after January 1963) was an American writer, clubwoman, and suffragist based in Philadelphia.

Josepha Newcomb Whitney (born September 27, 1871 – died after 1955) was an American clubwoman, pacifist, suffragist, and politician.

Ida Geer Weller, from a 1920 publication. Ida Geer Weller (1881-1944) was an American concert singer and clubwoman.

Mamie Bynes Reese (September 3, 1911 – December 15, 1997) was an American clubwoman, college professor, and Georgia state official.

Ella D. Barrier (1852 — February 9, 1945) was an American educator and clubwoman. Her younger sister was Fannie Barrier Williams.

Alice Parker Lesser (April 21, 1863 – October 30, 1939) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and clubwoman based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ida Isabel Perry Bellows (August 12, 1859 - January 10, 1952) was a clubwoman, the president of Ebell of Los Angeles.

Nellie Strong Stevenson (June 14, 1856 – July 9, 1930), born Ellen Strong, was an American pianist, music educator, and clubwoman.

Artishia Garcia Wilkerson Jordan (August 12, 1901 – February 7, 1974) was an American educator and clubwoman, based in Los Angeles.

Emily Brown Childress Portwig (September 9, 1896 – February 4, 1960) was an American pharmacist and clubwoman based in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Ella Noyes Farr (1853January 1, 1938) was an American osteopathic physician, educator, clubwoman, and suffragist, based in Pierre, South Dakota.

Ava Lloy Galpin (1877 – April 19, 1935) was an American educator, clubwoman, suffragist, temperance activist, and politician, based in Southern California.

Sarah Elizabeth Pratt Grinnell (May 9, 1851 – July 6, 1935) was an American writer, clubwoman, and naturalist, based in Pasadena, California.

Anna H. Jones (1855 – 1932) was a Canadian-born American clubwoman, suffragist, and educator based in later life in Kansas City, Missouri.

Florence Alice Riddick Boys (December 3, 1873 – May 10, 1963) was an American writer, clubwoman, suffragist, and state probation officer in Indiana.

Isma Dooly (1870 – May 11, 1921), also seen as Isma Dooley, was an American newspaper editor and clubwoman, based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Edith Noyes Porter (March 26, 1875 – died after 1945) was an American composer, music educator, clubwoman, and pianist, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ida Clark DePriest (1869-1938) was an African-American suffragist, activist, and clubwoman, known for her work for women's suffrage in Colorado.

Elizabeth Lee Bloomstein (January 8, 1859 – January 2, 1927) was an American history professor, university librarian, clubwoman, and suffragist based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Adelaide Dorn Wallerstein McConnell (March 4, 1869 – June 12, 1942) was an American translator, medical doctor, lawyer, and clubwoman, based in New York City.

Emma B. Mandl (December 16, 1842 – July 31, 1928) was a Bohemian-born American social reformer, clubwoman, and community leader based in Chicago, Illinois.

Florence Collins Porter (August 14, 1853 – December 31, 1930) was an American newspaper editor, clubwoman, political campaigner, and activist for temperance and women's suffrage.

Louise Maertz, in an 1895 publication. Louise Maertz (1837 — February 4, 1918) was an American Civil War nurse, writer, and clubwoman based in Illinois.

Alice A. Tolliver Casneau (died 1953), known professionally as Mrs. A. A. Casneau, was an American dressmaker and clubwoman based in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

Grace Garrett Durand, from a 1914 publication. Grace Garrett Durand (August 25, 1867 – February 26, 1948) was an American clubwoman, business owner, and temperance activist.

Marion Elizabeth Stinson Crerar (September 8, 1859 — May 20, 1919) was a Canadian clubwoman focused on public health, and especially active during World War I.

Stella Asling, from a 1904 publication. Stella Eugenie Asling-Riis (October 4, 1869 — 1957) was a Canadian writer and a clubwoman in New York City.

Sarah Visanska (July 16, 1870 – February 28, 1926) was an American clubwoman, president of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs from 1910 to 1912.

Sylvanie F. Williams, from an 1896 newspaper. Sylvanie Francoz Williams (died August 12, 1921) was an American educator and clubwoman based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Carrie Williams Clifford (1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio – 1934) was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States.

Iva Dale Pickett Gay (June 25, 1891 - 1988) was a Wyoming clubwoman and one of the best known women of her time in the oil business.

Cora Sutton Castle Cora Olive Sutton Castle (May 10, 1880 – August 14, 1966) was an American educator, Sociologist, author, and clubwoman based in San Francisco, California.

Ora Brown Stokes, from a 1921 publication. Ora Brown Stokes Perry (1882-1957) was an American educator, probation officer, temperance worker, and clubwoman based in Richmond, Virginia.

Seraphine Eppstein Pisko, from a 1917 publication. Seraphine Eppstein Pisko (January 1, 1861 – July 27, 1942) was an American clubwoman and hospital administrator based in Denver, Colorado.

Dora Chung Zane (July 6, 1904 – June 2, 1991) was a medical social worker and clubwoman in Hawaii, specializing in services for blind people and children with disabilities.

Rue Randall Clifford (January 16, 1887 – October 26, 1964) was an American educator and clubwoman. She was active in supporting library and sports opportunities in South San Francisco.

Jane Goude (November 4, 1891 — August 7, 1966), born Genevieve Hazel Goude, was an American actress, Chautauqua performer, and clubwoman, billed as "The Girl from the Golden West".

May E. Dexter Henshall (May 1, 1867 – July 30, 1962) was an American educator, clubwoman, and library professional. She was inducted into the California Library Hall of Fame in 2016.

Florence Spencer Duryea, from a 1920 publication. Florence Spencer Duryea was an American philanthropist and clubwoman, national secretary of Women's Organizations for Near East Relief, based in New York City.

It was during this period that he met and married Josephine Morris de Greayer, a wealthy clubwoman of San Francisco.“Rowan to Marry Again?” Topeka State Journal, July 28, 1904.

Ione Elveda Wood Gibbs ( 1871 – June 1923) was an American educator, journalist, and clubwoman. She served as vice-president of the National Association of Colored Women from 1912 to 1914.

Mary Wood Swift (September 12, 1841 – April 8, 1927) was an American suffragist and clubwoman, president of the National Council of Women of the United States from 1903 to 1909.

Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid, from a 1902 publication. Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid (October 30, 1841 — January 8, 1926) was a Canadian churchworker and clubwoman, and an advocate for women's rights.

Mame Stewart Josenberger, from a 1920 publication. Mame Stewart Josenberger (August 3, 1868 – September 29, 1964) was an American educator, businesswoman, and clubwoman, based in Arkansas for most of her career.

Theodora Velma Fonteneau Rutherford (January 28, 1904 - August 15, 1993) was an African-American accountant, clubwoman, and college instructor. In 1960 she became the first black CPA qualified in West Virginia.

Isabel Morse Jones (1892 – September 4, 1951) was an American musician, arts patron, and clubwoman. She was the music and dance critic at the Los Angeles Times, from 1925 to 1947.

Mary Corinne Quintrell, portrait in profile, from a 1918 publication. Mary Corinne Quintrell (January 8, 1839 – July 18, 1918) was an English-born American educator and clubwoman, based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Emma S. Connor Ransom (August 8, 1864 — May 15, 1943) was an American educator and clubwoman, active in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association).

Lucretia Harvey Cage (September 4, 1881 – December 22, 1968), known as Crete Cage, was an American journalist and clubwoman who worked at the Los Angeles Times. Her son was composer John Cage.

Grace Julia Parker Drummond, from a 1900 publication. Grace Julia Parker Drummond (December 17, 1860 — June 10, 1942) was a Canadian clubwoman and philanthropist, decorated for her work during World War I.

Alice Ames Winter, 1921 Alice Ames Winter (November 25, 1865 – April 5, 1944) was an American litterateur, author and clubwoman. She served as president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC).

Clara Bradley Baker Wheeler Burdette (July 22, 1855 — January 6, 1954) was an American clubwoman and philanthropist based in Pasadena, California. She was the first president of the California Federation of Women's Clubs.

Brown was clubwoman. She was a member of the Women's Club of Denver (WCD), serving as president for four terms. She was also involved with the Equal Suffrage Association. Nichol died in 1937.

Lillian Burkhart Goldsmith, in a 1922 publication. Lillian Burkhart, from a 1901 publication. Lillian Burkhart Goldsmith (February 8, 1871 — February 25, 1958) was an American vaudeville performer, clubwoman, and businesswoman, based in Los Angeles.

Iva Bigelow Weaver, from a 1922 publication. Iva Bigelow Weaver (October 8, 1875 — October 4, 1932) was an American soprano singer in oratorios and recitals, clubwoman, and music educator based in Chicago and Milwaukee.

Sofia de Veyra, from a 1919 publication. Sofia Reyes de Veyra (30 September 1876 – 1 January 1953) was a Filipina feminist, clubwoman, teacher, and school founder, and president of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.

Bessie Bartlett Frankel, from a 1920 publication. Bessie Bartlett Frankel (April 29, 1884 – September 15, 1959) was an American concert singer, composer, and clubwoman, and the first president of the California Federation of Music Clubs.

Ednah Robinson Aiken, in portrait from a 1905 newspaper article about her wedding Ednah Robinson Aiken (September 7, 1872 – 1960) was an American writer, editor, clubwoman, and playwright, based in the San Francisco Bay area.

Helen Loring Grenfell, Representative Women of Colorado, 1914 Helen Loring Grenfell (April 29, 1863 — July 25, 1935) was an American educator, suffragist, and clubwoman. She was Colorado's Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1899 to 1905.

Violet Mae Lopez Watson (September 5, 1891 – October 25, 1971) was a Jamaican- born American clubwoman and community leader. She was a co-founder with Mary McLeod Bethune of the National Council of Negro Women.

Vivian Osborne Marsh (September 5, 1898 — March 1986) was an American clubwoman based in San Francisco, California. She was president of the California State Association of Colored Women, and national president of Delta Sigma Theta.

Joanna Snowden Porter, from a 1922 publication. Joanna Snowden Porter (February 14, 1864 – October 1, 1941) was an American clubwoman based in Chicago; she was founder and president of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.

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 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Minnie Julia Beatrice Campbell, from a 1913 publication. Minnie Julia Beatrice Campbell OBE (June 18, 1862 — November 3, 1952) was a Canadian clubwoman, lecturer, and editor, a leader in the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE).

Martha G. Thorwick, from a 1911 publication. Martha G. Thorwick (1863 — November 16, 1921) was a Norwegian-born American clubwoman and medical doctor based in San Francisco, California, whose personal life was the subject of scandal and headlines.

Anna Goodman Hertzberg (1864-1937) Anna Goodman Hertzberg (January 24, 1864 – May 29, 1937) was an American clubwoman who served as the co-founder of an all-women's chamber music society, the first women's music association in Texas.

Victoria Clay Haley, in a 1917 publication. Victoria Clay Haley (January 1, 1877 – after July 1926), later Victoria Clay Roland, was an American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser based in St. Louis, Missouri and later in Chicago.

A 1913 photograph of Mary Boyle O'Reilly, from the Harris & Ewing photographic collection, Library of Congress; LCCN2016864242 Mary Boyle O'Reilly (May 18, 1873 – October 21, 1939) was an Irish-American social reformer, clubwoman, and journalist during World War I.

Sophie Bell Wright (June 5, 1866 - June 10, 1912) was an American educator, and clubwoman from New Orleans, Louisiana. In recent years, Wright's membership in the Daughters of the Confederacy has led to calls for a reconsideration of her legacy.

Etnah Rochon Boutte (1880 — March 9, 1973) was an American educator, pharmacist, and clubwoman. She taught French at Fisk University and in New York City. She was executive secretary of the Circle for Negro War Relief during World War I.

Trinidad Fernandez Legarda (28 March 1899 – 1998) was a Filipina suffragist, clubwoman, philanthropist, and editor. She was the first woman ambassador from the Philippines, when she was appointed in 1958.Nick Guevara, West Point, Bataan, and Beyond (Garfield Street Publishing 2016): 117.

Jaime de Veyra married clubwoman Sofia Reyes in 1907. They had four children,"On Equality with Husbands" Galena Weekly Republican (18 August 1922): 6. via Newspapers.com Their son Manuel E. de Veyra was a doctor during World War II serving at Bataan.

Florence M. Breed was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Francis W. Breed and Alice Ives Breed. Her father was a shoe manufacturer. Her mother, an active clubwoman, was also a Bahá'i convert, introduced to the faith by suffragist Mary Hanford Ford.

Myra Nye, from a 1922 publication Myra Sturtevant Nye (May 12, 1875 – January 28, 1955) was a writer, journalist, and clubwoman based in Southern California. She was the women's club editor and Hollywood columnist at the Los Angeles Times from 1919 to 1934.

Eva Perry Moore (July 24, 1852 – April 28, 1931) was an American clubwoman based in St. Louis, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Council of Women.Karen J. Blair, "Eva Perry Moore" in American National Biography Online (Oxford University Press 2000).

Bertha Cushing Child, from a 1903 concert program. Bertha Cushing Child, from a 1908 publication. Bertha May Cushing Child (September 11, 1871 – February 9, 1933) was an American singer and clubwoman, based in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the mother of diplomat Paul Cushing Child.

Roberta J. Dunbar, in a 1917 publication. Roberta Johnson Dunbar (died November 1, 1956) was an American clubwoman and peace activist based in Rhode Island. Her first name is sometimes written "Reberta" in sources.Frank Lincoln Mather, Who's Who of the Colored Race (Chicago 1915): 96-97.

Mary Eloise O'Donnell de Garmo (November 3, 1861 – September 24, 1953) was an American educator and clubwoman, active in Shreveport, St. Louis, and Corpus Christi, on subjects from eugenics and parenting to road improvement and war memorials. She was usually known as Mrs. Frank de Garmo.

The dramas enacted by the Arts and Crafts Club attracted considerable attention, with an article in The Clubwoman noting, "Probably no other women's club in the country has achieved a more remarkable success in the way of dramatic ventures than has The Carmel Club of Arts and Crafts".

1) Alice Louise Reynolds, 2) Amy Brown Lyman, 3) Grace Raymond Hebard, 4) Fanny Maughan Vernon, 5) Ruth Moench Bell, 6) Susa Young Gates Frances "Fanny" Maughan Vernon (November 24, 1872 - March 28, 1940) was an American educator. She was a prominent clubwoman and Democratic National committeewoman of Utah.

Exie Lee Hampton (1893 — 1979), born Exie Lee Kelley, was an American educator, community leader and clubwoman in Southern California. She served on the national board of the YWCA during World War II, and was executive director of the Eastside Settlement House in Los Angeles after the war.

Nannie A. Reis, from a 1910 publication. Nannie Aschenheim Reis (December 28, 1871—October 14, 1940) was a newspaper columnist, clubwoman, and congregational leader in the Chicago Jewish community from approximately 1900 to 1940. She was a personal acquaintance of Jane Addams and worked closely with Hannah G. Solomon.

He was married in 1817 to Miss Eliza Rockwell who survived him. Three of his sons, including Joseph Emerson, entered the ministry, and one was a lawyer. One of his daughters was noted clubwoman Charlotte Emerson Brown. He died at Rockford, Illinois, May 26, 1863, aged nearly 76.

Smith was an active clubwoman. She was quite involved in Democratic politics and was an early supporter of FDR for president. She was a "vocal, influential delegate" to the Democratic National Convention in the years 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936. The 1924 convention was first to receive women delegates from Georgia.

She then became the principal of the segregated elementary school, the Lincoln School. In 1916 she attended the Negro National Educational Congress as an appointed delegate from Kansas. Dillard was an active clubwoman. She was a member of the African American Woman's Christian Temperance Union, joining at the age of eighteen.

Kate Tannatt Woods (1838–1910) was an American author, editor, journalist, and clubwoman. She published a number of children's books and novels, and her poems, short stories, and articles were published widely in newspapers and magazines. She was the founder and first president of the Thought and Work Club of Salem, Massachusetts.

Myra Kingman Merriman, on the cover of a 1922 publication. Myra Hunt Kingman (November 2, 1873 — June 28, 1922), for much of her adult life known as Myra Kingman Miller or Myra Kingman Merriman, was an American journalist and clubwoman, President of the National Federation of College Women from 1915 to 1922.

In a casual observation, the "clubwoman," a Mrs. Owen, tells Nancy about a statue on a deserted seaside estate. The statue, known as "The Whispering Girl," bears an uncanny resemblance to Nancy. As it turns out, Nancy is bound for that very area with her father and her friends Bess and George.

Alice Bradford Wiles, in an 1893 publication Alice Bradford Miles (February 16, 1853 – February 20, 1929) was an American clubwoman based in Chicago, Illinois. She was active at the national level with the Daughters of the American Revolution and at the state level as president of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.

Eleanor Joy Toll, in a 1922 publication. Eleanor Joy Toll (July 9, 1869 — February 2, 1926) was an American educator and clubwoman based in Southern California. She taught at Los Angeles High School, helped found the Glendale Symphony Orchestra, and was the first woman appointed as trustee on the board at Scripps College.

Schlee married Victor H. G. Laddey in 1876. They had three children, John, Eric, and Paula, before they family moved to the United States in 1888. Paula Laddey became a lawyer and clubwoman in New Jersey. Victor Laddey died in 1929; Clara Schlee Laddey died in 1932, aged 76 years, in Alton, New Hampshire.

Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, circa 1914-15 Lydia Arms Avery Coonley-Ward (January 31, 1845 - February 26, 1924) was a social leader, clubwoman and writer. Coonley served as a president of the Chicago Women's Club and was known for her poetry. She also helped her second husband, Henry Augustus Ward, grow his meteorite collection.

Agnes Thomas Morris, from a 1919 publication. Agnes L. Thomas Morris (March 8, 1865 – June 25, 1949), known professionally as Mrs. Robert Carlton Morris, was an American writer and clubwoman, the national president of the War Mothers of America in 1918. As president of the Ohio Shakespeare Association, she lectured and wrote about William Shakespeare.

Olive Stott Gabriel (September 26, 1872May 6, 1944) was an American activist, clubwoman, and lawyer, active in Republican politics in New York City. She served as president of the National Association of Women Lawyers in the early 1930s and was a champion of many Progressive Era feminist causes, such as women's suffrage and the campaign against prostitution.

Home of Clara Burdette, before she married Robert, 1125 Sunnycrest and Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, ca.1895-1900 (CHS-241) Clara Bradley married three times."Dr. Clara Burdette, Noted Clubwoman" New York Times (January 7, 1954): 31. She first married, in 1878, Nathaniel Milman Wheeler, a professor of Greek literature; they had a son, Roy B. Wheeler.

Sallie Southall Cotten, from an 1896 publication. Sallie Southall Cotten (June 13, 1846 – May 4, 1929) was an American writer and clubwoman, based in North Carolina. She helped to organize the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. She was the organization's fifth president, and wrote the federation's anthem, as well as a history of the federation.

She was elected treasurer of the Oahu Association for the Adult Blind in 1937. In the 1950s she served on the Territorial Commission on Children and Youth. Zane was also an active clubwoman. She was a member of the Associated Chinese University Women, and represented Hawaii at the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Vancouver in 1937.

One of her sisters was Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid, a prominent clubwoman in Montreal.Virginia Martin, "Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid", Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography (2016). In 1878, Frances McIntosh married the landowner and lawyer George Washington Stephens, Sr., who become Cabinet Minister of Québec. They had a son, Francis Chattan Stephens (1887–1918), and two daughters.

Mary Van Rensselaer Buell was born in Madison, Wisconsin on June 14, 1893, daughter of Martha (Merry) and Charles Edwin Buell. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother was a prominent clubwoman and Cornell University alumna. Mary was one of four sisters; her sister Martha married geophysicist Louis B. Slichter.Kay Marie, "This Social Whirl," Capital Times (February 7, 1940): 16.

Sarah Ann Shannon Evans (1854 — December 8, 1940) was an American clubwoman and suffragist based in Portland, Oregon, president of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs from 1905 to 1915. She was the first woman in Portland to carry a police badge, in her work as the city's first Market Inspector. She also worked for state funding of free public libraries in Oregon.

María Martínez Acosta, a.k.a., María Martínez Acosta de Pérez Almiroty (25 June 1883 — 1973) was a Puerto Rican teacher, clubwoman and the first woman to be elected senator in Puerto Rico. She is one of the twelve women honored with a plaque in "La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña" (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women) in San Juan.

Emma Clarissa Williams (1874-1952) was an American church leader, clubwoman and activist. In 1946 she became the first African-American woman to be appointed American Mother of the Year by the American Mothers Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation in New York. With her husband George Clinton Clement, she was the mother of seven children, including Ruth Clement Bond.

She was a clubwoman, active in the Federation of Women's Clubs and the temperance movement. In 1903, she was elected national senior vice president of the Woman's Relief Corps. She was Grand Matron of the South Dakota Order of the Eastern Star in 1905 and 1906. In 1915, she went to the South Dakota legislature to petition in favor of women's suffrage.

A. C. Harris Bilbrew (March 12, 1891 - June 4, 1972) was an American poet, musician, composer, playwright, clubwoman, and radio personality known as Madame A. C. Bilbrew. She lived in South Los Angeles. In 1923, she became the first black soloist to sing on a Los Angeles radio program. She also hosted the city's first African-American radio music program, The Gold Hour, in the early 1940s.

Her mother was a clubwoman in Oakland, and great-granddaughter of William Floyd, one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. Through her mother, Williams' other ancestors included politicians Benjamin Tallmadge and John P. Cushman. Williams earned a bachelor of library science (BLS) degree at the New York State Library in 1900.New York State Library, Report of the Library School (1900): 352-353.

Officers of A.A.U.W. upon arrival in Klamath Falls, Oregon, were met and welcomed by Wanda Brown Shaw. From left to right: Mrs. G.A. Johnson, Mabel Morton, Wanda Brown Shaw, Helen Moor, Mrs. Herbert Howell, Dr. K.W. Jameson, state president and dean of women at Oregon State College Wanda Brown Shaw (February 14, 1899 - July 20, 1942) was a clubwoman and teacher of Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Lena Giudici ( ; November 7, 1898 – January 8, 1995) was an American lawyer and clubwoman. Giudici was the third woman admitted to the Vermont Bar Association (1921) and a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1920). She was active in civic and community affairs, serving on the board of the Office of Price Administration and presiding over the Vermont Federation of Professional and Business Women's Clubs.

Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quests for Justice. College Station: Texas A&M; University Press, 2009. A resurgence of interest in women's suffrage took place when Anna Howard Shaw, the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, toured Texas in 1912. In February 1912, suffragists in San Antonio formed an Equal Franchise Society with Mary Eleanor Brackenridge, a prominent clubwoman and civic leader, as president.

Gertrude Schalk (1906 - April 23, 1977), also known as Toki Schalk Johnson, was a twentieth-century African-American writer, columnist, clubwoman, and newspaper editor. Although she lived and worked outside of New York City, her early fiction is sometimes considered as part of the broader Harlem Renaissance literary movement.Amber Harris Leichner, "'To Bend without Breaking': American Women's Authorship and the New Woman, 1900-1935" (PhD diss., University of Nebraska, 2012).

Sara Iredell Fleetwood (1849–1908) was an American clubwoman and teacher. She was involved in the movement of black women into professional nursing, graduating as one of the first nurses from Howard University's Freedman's Hospital School of Nursing. She became the nursing superintendent at Freedman's, organized the Freedmen's Nursing Association and served as the first African-American woman on the nurse's examining board of the District of Columbia.

She graduated in 1909, and continued her education at Ohio State University College and the University of California. Wolfe was an active suffragist and clubwoman. She was a member of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association where she served as the Recording Secretary from 1905 through 1909. She was also a member of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, where she worked on the Ohio suffrage campaign of 1912.

Raised and educated in Ohio, Clifford left the state to teach in Parkersburg, West Virginia for three years. In 1886, she returned to Cleveland, Ohio, married Ohio state legislator William H. Clifford, and became an engaged clubwoman. In 1908, she moved with her husband and two children, Maurice and Joshua, to Washington, D.C. Clifford died on November 10, 1934 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

She was the vice-president of the Illinois Woman's Press Club and a member of the Authors' Club. In 1892, together with Sarah Wilder Pratt, another prominent clubwoman and author of books on mathematics, she founded the Woman's Columbian Laundry, a company that should have been managed and employed only women. The venture was a success, but Pratt and Swarthout were outvoted and they filed a claim for being reimbursed.

Veloz), Jo Jo Smith (Mr. Veloz), Katey O'Brady (Julie/Maria), Hal Linden (Dick), Taylor Reed (The King), Connie Sanchez (The King's Companion), James Lavery (Commandatorre Vermelli), Laurie Franks (Clubwoman) Marilyn Murphy (Gladys), Christopher Man (Tony), Kenny Kealy (Freddy Deems), Neva Small (Suzy Deems), and Eric White (Adam Deems). The ensemble included Joan Bell, Shari Green, Lynn Kollenberg, Mimi Wallace, Bob Bishop, Steve Jacobs, Richard Lyle, Barry Preston, and Bill Starr.

Mary Cora deGarmo was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, the daughter of Frank de Garmo and Mary O'Donnell de Garmo. Her mother was a teacher and a prominent clubwoman in St. Louis. She graduated from Newcomb College in 1912, and from Washington University in 1913. She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Columbia University in 1931, with a dissertation titled "Amylase activity of blood serum in relation to age and nutritional history".

Bertola was an active clubwoman. She served a term as president of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and helped to create the Native Daughters' Home and Native Daughters' Children's Agency, two philanthropic projects of the women's club. She was also founder in 1909 of the Vittoria Colonna Club for Italian women in San Francisco,"Dr. Mariana Bertola in Charge of Affair" San Francisco Chronicle (October 29, 1913): 8.

Nellie O'Donnell in 1893 Eleanor "Nellie" O'Donnell McCormack (June 2, 1867 – February 28, 1931) was an American educator and clubwoman from the U.S. state of Ohio. She was a teacher and principal in the public schools of Tennessee and was elected superintendent of public schools for Shelby County. When elected, there were 148 schools in the county. She increased the number and brought them to a higher standard.

Caroline Earle White (1833–1916) was an American philanthropist and anti- vivisection activist. She co-founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) in 1867, founded its women's branch (WPSPCA) in 1869, and founded the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) in 1883. White was also an active clubwoman, and was involved in literary societies and women's suffrage, and worked with organizations that helped the poor obtain medical services.Buettinger, Craig.

Lydia Flood Jackson continued her family's legacy to fight for African American civil rights and was a champion of women's rights. She was an active clubwoman, and first legislative chair and first citizenship chair of the California Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. She also implemented the use of secret ballots in the club's elections. She was a member of the Fannie Jackson Coppin Club for forty-two years and the Native Daughter's Club.

Paul became a civil engineer and died in 1929. Grace Julian Clarke became a clubwoman in Indianapolis as well as a women's suffrage advocate. She was one of the founders of the Women's Franchise League of Indiana. She retained close ties to her father even after her marriage to Charles B. Clarke, an attorney who served as a U.S. deputy surveyor in the New Mexico Territory and also served in the Indiana Senate.

Maria Huntington and Kate Foote, Harriet Ward Foote Hawley (privately printed, 1880). As a clubwoman, Foote was a charter member of the Washington D. C. chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and head of the Meriden chapter of the same organization. Some Chilkat woven blankets Kate Foote Coe acquired in or from Alaska were donated to the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.Report of the President of Yale University (1903): 182.

Florence Spearing Randolph (August 6 or August 9, 1866 – December 28, 1951) was an American clubwoman, suffragist, and ordained minister, pastor of the Wallace Chapel AME Zion Church in Summit, Union County, New Jersey, United States. from 1925 to 1946. She organized the New Jersey Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and was president of the New Jersey Women's Foreign Missionary Society.Gloria H. Dickinson and J. Maurice Hicks, "Florence Spearing Randolph" in Joan N. Burstyn, ed.

She believed that women had the right to work outside the home, as well as recognizing the important role that women had in caring for a home and family. Meredith, an active clubwoman, was involved with several civic organizations, most notably on the Women's Board of the World's Columbian Exposition from 1890 to 1894, as the first president of the Indiana Home Economics Association in 1913, and as an organizer of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs.

The action brought conflict from members of the Metropolitan Club, who alleged she had usurped the project for which they had raised the funds. After judgments were brought against her, Moorman began operating as a newsdealer. In 1910, she took up the cause of suffrage, answering the call of Alva Belmont to join her Political Equality League. She became a regular speaker in regard to women's suffrage, bolstering her image as an active clubwoman and well-known socialist.

Viola Denisa Rowe Gross (August 25, 1921 – February 20, 2012) from Danville, Kentucky, was a teacher, businesswoman, clubwoman and author. She served on many local, state and national organizations and associations in support of African American civil rights and human rights in general. She and her husband Dr. Rodney Gross, Jr. were partners at Gross Veterinary Clinic, which opened in Grayson, Kentucky in 1962. They were the first African-Americans to hold professional degrees in Carter County, Kentucky.

Marion A. McBride, also spelled MacBride (January 5, 1850 – September 18, 1909), was an American journalist and clubwoman. She founded several women's press associations, most notably the New England Woman's Press Association. She wrote and lectured on domestic science, and was active in charitable causes and local politics. It was largely due to McBride's activism that the state of Massachusetts began hiring matrons for city police stations and built a separate facility for female inmates in Boston.

Elsie Hopestill Butler was the daughter of Robert Gordon Butler and Mary Leland Thorp Butler of New York City.William Allen Butler and Willard Parker Butler, Book of the family and lineal descendants of Medad Butler, late of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, N.Y (New York Public Library 1919). As a young woman she lived in Philadelphia. Her sister Marjorie Butler Harrison was active as a clubwoman in Philadelphia."In a Social Way" Philadelphia Inquirer (February 21, 1912): 8.

Because of Rose's and her new husband's interest in golf, the family arranged for Charles B. MacDonald to design a golf course in 1892. In 1895, Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor and her husband were among the founders of the Onwentsia Club, a golf club in Lake Forest. She won several golf events, owned a racehorse, and played lawn tennis. She was a clubwoman, and served as vice president of the Northside Chicago branch of the Illinois Woman Suffrage League.

As a clubwoman, Myra Kingman Merriman was president of the National Federation of College Women from 1915 to 1922, and chaired the Better Films Committee of the National Council of Women from 1918 to 1922."Myra Kingman Merriman" Musical Monitor (August 1922): 347. The Better Films Committee endorsed films the considered wholesome and fit for family viewing, and promoted the exhibition of such films.Myra Kingman Miller, "Plan for Better Films" Child-Welfare Magazine (October 1918): 45.

Mary wrote for the Avant Courier, including editorial content, specifically advocating against corsets and long skirts Alderson was an active clubwoman. She was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), serving as president of the Montana chapter from 1913 to 1916. She was the editor of the Montana WCTU Journal. She was also a member of the Montana State Housekeepers Society and the Bozeman Society for the Promotion of Physical Culture and Correct Dress.

Trinidad Fernandez y Rodriguez was born in Cuyo, Palawan, the daughter of Clemente Fernandez and Vicenta Rodriguez. While she was still a teenager, Trinidad Fernandez trained to be a teacher, taught school in her hometown, and began working as secretary to an American clubwoman in Manila.Quijano de Manila, "Trinidad Legarda: Civil Leader of the Year" Philippine Free Press (11 April 1953). She was a beauty queen as a young woman, holding the title Queen of the Manila Carnival in 1924.

Women's Fashion Evolution: 1900s-1920s, from the Permanent Collection The history galleries on the third- floor feature permanent exhibits of recreations of 1906, 1926, and 1946 Abilene parlors and kitchens, a 1920 Grace Hotel guestroom, and a historic bootmakers shop. Temporary exhibits of textiles, artifacts, and films on loan and from the history collection are also featured in the history galleries. Recent history exhibitions include The West Texas Clubwoman, West Texas Cattle Country and the Working Rancher and Fabulous Fifties Fashion.

In 1894, Durley obtained for Des Moines a fine art loan, this being the first ever held in that city. Durley was a suffragist. As a girl at Iowa City, she became acquainted with Susan B. Anthony and Mary A. Livermore; and as a clubwoman at Des Moines, she became the friend of such women as Julia Ward Howe. Her own home at Des Moines was for years the rendezvous of the Iowa Press and Authors' club, which she organized.

Two islands in the Mackenzie River are named in her honor. Agnes Deans Cameron, Elizabeth Taylor, and Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan were Colcleugh's contemporaries in traveling through the Western Arctic. Her marriage to Frederick Colcleugh, the merchant and Canadian political figure, occurred at the age of 47. Known as a clubwoman, she was a member of the New England Woman's Press Association, Rhode Island Woman's Club, Providence Fortnightly Club, Providence Mothers' Club, Sarah E. Doyle Club, and the Unity Club.

Harry Hertzberg was born on November 28, 1883, in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Eli Hertzberg (1845–1908), a Russian-born jeweler, and Anna Goodman (1865-1937), a clubwoman who served as the co-founder of an all-women's chamber music society, the first women's music association in Texas.John William Leonard, Woman's Who's Who of America (American Commonwealth Publishing Company 1914): 384. Hertzberg served as Texas State Senator on the 37th (1921) and & 36th (1919) Legislatures. He was a Democrat.

Anna Pennybacker, 1921 In a 1926 talk in Carnegie Hall, she told of her recent trip to Geneva and Greece."Well Known Clubwoman Tells of Geneva Trip," The News-Herald, April 17, image 15 She was noted as "one of the most gifted speakers on the platform today.""Week-End Guest," The Daily Times, Davenport, Iowa, November 14, 1931, image 6 Active in the Chautauqua movement, Mrs. Pennybacker persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to donate money that staved off bankruptcy.

Verina Harris Morton Jones (January 28, 1865 – February 3, 1943) was an American physician, suffragist and clubwoman. Following her graduation from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1888 she was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Mississippi. She then moved to Brooklyn where she co-founded and led the Lincoln Settlement House. Jones was involved with numerous civic and activist organizations and was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Ella Barrier was hired in 1875 to teach in the segregated schools of Washington D. C.. She stayed in Washington for more than forty years, working as a teacher, school principal, and clubwoman. Barrier helped develop the Washington branch of the YWCA. In 1891 she taught in Toronto, as part of a teacher exchange project.Vivian M. May, "Historicizing Intersectionality Through a Critical Lens: Returning to the Work of Anna Julia Cooper" in Carol Faulkner, ed., Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History (Boydell & Brewer 2014): 27.

Fox began her career as a public speaker and freelance writer, but rose to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s as a civic leader and journalist for the Indianapolis Freeman, a leading national black newspaper at the time. In 1900 Fox joined the Indianapolis News, becoming the state's first black columnist to regularly write for a white newspaper. Fox was also an active clubwoman in Indianapolis's black community. She was the co-founder with Beulah Wright Porter of the Woman's Improvement Club of Indianapolis in 1903.

Glaum was also a busy clubwoman over the last three decades of her life. She served as president of the Matinee Musical Club for many years and also as state president of the California Federation of Music Clubs. Louise Glaum died at age 82 of pneumonia in Los Angeles.California Death Index, Name: Louise G. Harris, Birth Date: 09-04-1901 [sic], Sex: Female, Birth Place: Maryland, Death Place: Los Angeles Co. (70), Death Date: 11-25-1970, SSN: 571-01-5724, Age: 70 yrs. [sic].

Lena Madesin Phillips (September 15, 1881 - May 22, 1955) was a lawyer and clubwoman from Nicholasville, Kentucky, who founded the National Business and Professional Women's Clubs in 1919. She enlarged her circle, traveling also to Europe, and in 1930 she founded the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. Phillips served years as a president of each organization, and continued to work as an activist to the end of her life. She wrote numerous articles and pamphlets in the service of these causes, as well as frequently speaking to both women's and men's groups.

Sadie L. Adams (February 24, 1872 – July 30, 1945) was an African-American teacher, suffragist, and clubwoman. She was one of the first women to serve on an election board in Chicago and one of the founders of the Douglas League of Women Voters. In 1916, she served as a delegate from Chicago's first black suffrage organization, the Alpha Suffrage Club, to the National Equal Rights League conference. She was elected president of the Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs in 1921, serving into 1934.

At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 she met Robert J. Boylan, a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (later city editor), and they married in 1906. He died in 1936."Prominent Clubwoman Dies in East St. Louis," United Press in The Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois), December 29, 1947, Section 1, Page 6 A resident of East St. Louis, she had two children, Robert J. Boylan Jr., and Rose Josephine Boylan, and a sister, Josephine Marion. She died on December 28, 1947, with the diagnosis of pneumonia.

Kate Moore Brown, between 1900 and 1909 Kate Moore Brown (December 17, 1871 - March 28, 1945) was an American musician, clubwoman and traveler who lived in El Paso, Texas. Brown was one of the first graduates of El Paso High School. She was the first person to teach music in the public schools in Texas and El Paso and was the first woman to own a bicycle in El Paso. Brown is also one of the original creators of the El Paso International Museum which later became the El Paso Museum of Art.

Jennie B. Moton (1879-1942) was an American educator and clubwoman. As a special field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in the 1930s and 40s, she worked to improve the lives of rural African Americans in the South. She directed the department of Women's Industries at the Tuskegee Institute, presided over the Tuskegee Woman's Club, and was a two- term president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). In 1941, she was one of several influential black leaders who helped persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign Executive Order 8802.

"Fourth Biennial Report of the California School for Girls" (California State Printing Office 1921): 4. She was the first woman appointed to the board of trustees at Scripps College; however, she died before she was able to serve."Mrs. C. H. Toll Passes; Wife of Banker Executive was Past President of Ebell Club and Active as Organizer" Los Angeles Times (February 3, 1926): A1. As a clubwoman, Toll was a founding member of the Foothill Club, and president of the large and active Ebell Club of Los Angeles.

Virginia Claypool Meredith (November 5, 1848 – December 10, 1936) was an American farmer and livestock breeder, a writer and lecturer on the topics of agriculture and home economics, and an active clubwoman and a leader of women's organizations. Dubbed "Queen of American Agriculture" by the citizens of Mississippi in the 1890s, Meredith was also a pioneer in agricultural education. Between 1897 and 1903 she established the home economics programs at the University of Minnesota and served as the program's first professor. From 1921 to 1936 she served as the first woman appointed a Purdue University trustee.

Mary Gray Peck, 1921 Mary Gray Peck (October 21, 1867 – January 11, 1957) was an American journalist, educator, suffragist, and clubwoman. She was interested in economic and industrial problems of women, and investigated labor conditions in Europe and the United States. Born in New York, she studied at Elmira College, University of Minnesota, and University of Cambridge before becoming an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Later, she became associated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs, College Equal Suffrage League, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Women's Trade Union League, Woman Suffrage Party, and the Modern Language Association.

Each Club sets their own agendas and works on projects and programs that address the specific needs of their communities. Members of all ages have opportunities for personal growth and enrichment through leadership training and development. Every Georgia clubwoman is also a member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC). The General Federation of Women’s Clubs is an international philanthropic organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The General Federation of Women's Clubs is the oldest, non- denomination, non-partisan, largest international service organization of volunteer women in the world with a membership of 10 million worldwide, in 40 countries.

She served in the Woman's Home Missionary Society, as recording secretary and became an active clubwoman. Twice a week, she worked at Provident Hospital, weighing and recording statistics on babies and served as the treasurer of the Inter-Racial Cooperative Committee of Chicago, which raised funds to maintain the Amanda Smith Industrial School for Girls in Harvey, Illinois. She later served as a trustee on the school's board. Adams joined the Alpha Suffrage Club, the nation's black women's suffrage association and within one year of its 1913 founding had become a club officer, serving as its corresponding secretary.

Cooray was a co-founder of the Lanka Mahila Samitiya in 1931, which has since become the country's largest women's voluntary organisation; she was a member for 35 years and the president for ten years between 1943 and 1953. She was considered a pioneer in the field of maternal and child health in Ceylon. In 1937, Cooray hosted Australian clubwoman Isobel Ritchie, on a visit to see the work of the Social Service League of Colombo. In 1941 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her work in social welfare services in Ceylon.

Arcada Stark Balz (December 31, 1879 – August 18, 1973) was an American educator, clubwoman, and politician in the state of Indiana who became the first woman elected to the Indiana Senate, serving two consecutive four-year terms from 1943 to 1950 and representing Johnson and Marion Counties. Prior to entering politics, Balz was a teacher in the Indianapolis public schools and a leader in the woman's club movement in the state. Balz was the president of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs from 1935 to 1937. In addition, she served as president of the New Harmony Memorial Commission from 1939 to 1947.

Mary Kavanaugh Eagle (February 4, 1854 – February 15, 1903) was an American community leader, clubwoman, book editor, and activist in Protestant missionary work. She served as president of the Woman's Central Committee on Missions since 1882, and was the first president of the Woman's Mission Union, of Arkansas. As a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition, and as chairman of the Committee on Congresses, she was selected as editor of the papers read. Eagle served as First Lady of Arkansas during her husband's two terms as the state's 16th Governor.

Additionally, his influence in the surrounding communities steadily rose as he expanded his social networks to include key individuals, most notably: The Washington Bee publisher William Calvin Chase, activist and newspaper editor William Monroe Trotter, fellow Baptist, Reverend Walter Henderson Brooks, educator and founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls Nannie Helen Burroughs, and clubwoman Mary Church Terrell. These individuals supported Jernagin, effectively and efficiently "incorporating him into the organizations and issues that advocated for civil and human rights", while also providing him a myriad of sociopolitical avenues to approach the racial and religious issues he sought to engage with.Jones, p. 45.

For a short time, he moved to Greensboro, Alabama, to teach in the Tullibody Academy, a private school for African-American boys. He then moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked as an adjudicator in the United States Pension Office, and soon after, entered Columbian University Law School. While in law school, he met Frances "Fannie" Barrier (1855–1944), an African-American teacher then in Washington, D.C., who went on to work as a social activist, clubwoman, lecturer, and journalist working for social justice, civil liberties, education, and employment opportunities, especially for black women. Williams moved back to Chicago in 1885, but continued to visit Barrier in Washington.

Susan ("Sue") Pike Sanders, "A woman of the century" Susan Augusta Pike Sanders (March 25, 1842 – September 8, 1931) was an American teacher, clubwoman, and author, who was prominent in charities and social circles. She served as national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest charitable organization in the world in its day. She has the credit of being the originator of placing a flag in every school house, hers the first school to have a flag in McLean County, Illinois. The legislature changed the plan to putting it on the outside, which law was later repealed.

Lillian May Parker Thomas Fox (November 1854 – August 29, 1917) was an African-American journalist, clubwoman, public speaker, and civic activist in Indianapolis, Indiana, who rose to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s as a writer for the Indianapolis Freeman, a leading national black newspaper at the time. In 1900 Fox joined the Indianapolis News, becoming the first African- American columnist to regularly write for a white newspaper in Indiana. She was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2014. Fox used her writing, public speaking, and strong organizational skills to promote the goals and interests of several organizations in Indianapolis's black community.

It means you can do everything—sing, dance and above all, make people laugh." His purpose in life, he believed, was to make people laugh. In Groucho and Me, Groucho Marx called Skelton "the most unacclaimed clown in show business", and "the logical successor to [Charlie] Chaplin", largely because of his ability to play a multitude of characters with minimal use of dialogue and props. "With one prop, a soft battered hat", Groucho wrote, describing a performance he had witnessed, "he successfully converted himself into an idiot boy, a peevish old lady, a teetering-tottering drunk, an overstuffed clubwoman, a tramp, and any other character that seemed to suit his fancy.

Simpson made her debut as a singer in 1891 and before retiring from singing in 1895, performed at Madison Square Garden. When she left performing, Simpson turned to a career in public speaking and simultaneously continued her education at the Boston College of Chiropody, graduating as a chiropodist in 1911. From 1903 to 1940, she spoke throughout the Northeastern Seaboard and Midwest, giving talks on lynching and racial inequality. In addition to her business career, Simpson was an active clubwoman, involved in the founding of such organizations as the Woman's Era Club (1892), for which she was secretary for 14 years and the Harriet Tubman House (1903).

Warder was a clubwoman with a strong interest in the war effort during World War I. She was active in the Cairo Women's Club, organized and led the Navy League of Cairo, and organized a Red Cross chapter for the city as well. In 1917 she worked with the women's section of the Illinois State Council on Defense. She was also a member of the state committee of Illinois's Equal Suffrage Amendment Association, and a leader in the United States Daughters of 1812 for the state. She attended national conventions of the United States Daughters of 1812 and of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1916.Society note, Washington Times (April 30, 1916): 6.

It quickly gathered national support, with local chapters springing up across the United States. The group had an illustrious membership; "luminaries included W.E.B. Du Bois; Mary Church Terrell, a suffragist and founder of the National Association of Colored Women; Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a popular clubwoman and respected educator; Ira De A. Reid, a sociologist and assistant director of the newly formed Southern Regional Council; John Sengstacke, the publisher of the Chicago Defender; Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes of Harlem Renaissance fame; Lillian Smith, author of the controversial interracial love story Strange Fruit; and Broadway impresario Oscar Hammerstein II." The "illustrious" group drew the attention of the FBI, as the House Un-American Activities Committee argued that the group was simply a cover for the Communist Party.

Alice Ives Breed, "A woman of the century" Alice Ives Breed (January 15, 1853 – October 16, 1933) was an American social leader, salonnière, and clubwoman. She excelled as an organizer, using her executive abilities in religious, philanthropic, literary and social channels, aiming to improve the community. Breed was conversant with the entire history of the club movement. She was a member of or held leadership positions in the Browning Club, Daughters of the American Revolution, Emergency Association, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Lynn Woman's Club, Massachusetts Society of the Sons and Daughters of Illinois, Massachusetts State Committee of Correspondence of the General Federation of Women's Literary Clubs, North Shore Club, Woman's Auxiliary of the YMCA, Woman's Club House Association, and the Women's Committee of the World's Congress Auxiliary on moral and social reform.

Grace Julian Clarke (September 1865 – June 18, 1938) was a clubwoman, women's suffrage activist, newspaper journalist, and author from Indiana. As the daughter of George Washington Julian and the granddaughter of Joshua Reed Giddings, both of whom were abolitionists and members of the U.S. Congress, Clarke's family exposed her to social reform issues at an early age. She is credited with reviving the women's suffrage movement in Indiana, where she was especially active in the national campaign for women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. She is best known for founding and leading the Indiana State Federation of Women's Clubs, the Legislative Council, and the Women's Franchise League of Indiana (an affiliate of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the predecessor to the League of Women Voters of Indiana).

Many elite Californios/as like Arcadia Bandini stressed their "Spanish" (rather than Mexican) blood and heritage, thus aligning themselves with Europe and whiteness and distancing themselves from the mestizaje (racial mixing) associated with Mexico Marrying white Anglo American men, like Abel Stearns and Robert S. Baker, served as further confirmation and assertion of whiteness. When this white or "Spanish" racial status was challenged, Californias like de Stearns Baker were often outraged. An instance described by scholar Eileen Wallis illustrates this. When the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Los Angeles made the decision to officially exclude African American women from their membership, the influential clubwoman Caroline Severance (though officially supporting the new policy) remarked that she did not understand why white Americans associated socially with "Italians, Spaniards, and representatives of other dark-skinned races," but not with African Americans.

During the first decade of the twentieth century, Shelton was active with the city's Park League, serving on its Arbor Day and school gardening competition committees. Shelton was also active in Progressive Era politics, having been selected to represent Tarrant County at the 1920 state Democratic convention in support of Pat Morris Neff's gubernatorial campaign and the party's women's suffrage platform. Shelton was on the board of the Fort Worth Library Association and the Fort Worth Art Association, which organized the city's first public library and art museum, though she was often at odds with library director and fellow clubwoman and suffragist Jennie Scott Scheuber. In 1922, she was among the trustees of the Fort Worth Library Association who petitioned for an amendment to the city charter in an attempt to maintain the Association's control of the library and protect it from municipal government politics.

In 1888 May Wright Sewall, an Indianapolis educator, clubwoman, community leader and women's rights advocate, urged members of the Indianapolis Woman's Club (established in 1875) to form a stock company to finance construction of a headquarters building for the club. The women also planned to make earn money for their group by renting the building to the city's other cultural and social organizations. Sewall later acknowledged that the idea was inspired by building projects that women in other cities had funded, such as the Athenaeum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan; and the Woman's Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Indianapolis Propylaeum association, named after the Greek word "propýlaion," meaning "gateway to higher culture," incorporated in June 1888, with Sewall elected as its president. Later that month the association issued its initial public offering of $15,000, sold at $25 per share.

Families living along "Millionaires' Row" included those of John D. Rockefeller (during the period, 1868–84), Sylvester T. Everett, Isaac N. Pennock I (inventor of the first steel railway car in the US), arc light inventor Charles F. Brush, George Worthington, Horace Weddell, Marcus Hanna, Ambrose Swasey, Amasa Stone, John Hay (personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State under William McKinley), Jeptha Wade (Cleveland benefactor and founder of Western Union Telegraph), Alfred Atmore Pope (iron industrialist and art collector), Charles E.J. Lang (automobile industrialist), Worthy S. Streator (railroad baron, coal mine developer, and founder of the city of Streator, Illinois), Mary Corinne Quintrell (clubwoman), and Charles Lathrop Pack. Euclid Avenue's most infamous resident was con artist Cassie Chadwick, the wife of Leroy Chadwick, who was unaware that his wife was passing herself off to bankers as the illegitimate daughter of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Architect Charles F. Schweinfurth designed at least 15 mansions on the street. Samuel Mather's Mansion, built around 1910, "was among the last" to be built on Euclid Avenue.

Historian Paige Meltzer puts the GFWC in the context of the Progressive Movement, arguing that its policies: :built on Progressive-era strategies of municipal housekeeping. During the Progressive era, female activists used traditional constructions of womanhood, which imagined all women as mothers and homemakers, to justify their entrance into community affairs: as "municipal housekeepers," they would clean up politics, cities, and see after the health and wellbeing of their neighbors. Donning the mantle of motherhood, female activists methodically investigated their community's needs and used their "maternal" expertise to lobby, create, and secure a place for themselves in an emerging state welfare bureaucracy, best illustrated perhaps by clubwoman Julia Lathrop's leadership in the US Children's Bureau. As part of this tradition of maternal activism, the Progressive-era General Federation supported a range of causes from the pure food and drug administration to public health care for mothers and children to a ban on child labor, each of which looked to the state to help implement their vision of social justice.