Ashley, Jessie (1861-1919)

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Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, February 26, 1912

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, April 17, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, July 23, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, October 31, 1912

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, November 5, 1912

Jessie Ashley to Jane Addams, July 26, 1912

A Case to Watch, July 26, 1912

Jessie Ashley to Jane Addams, October 17, 1912

Jane Addams to Jessie Ashley, October 19, 1912

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Birth Date

1861-08-06

Death Date

1919-01-20

Birthplace

New York City, NY

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Jessie Ashley was a suffragist, lawyer, and a founder of the National Birth Control League. She attended school in both New York and Berlin and then studied law at the New York University Law School. She then worked as a private quizzer for the New York Bar Association and the University Law School examinations, as well as a lecturer for the woman's class at the university. Ashley was president of the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League and treasurer of the National Woman's Suffrage League, as well as a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Women Lawyers' Club, and the Woman's Municipal League. In the 1910s, she served on the editorial board for Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Review. Ashley was a socialist, and in 1912 she ran for the Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals.

Ashley died in 1919.