O'Reilly, Leonora (1870-1927)

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Discuss Negroes Yearly, June 2, 1909

Testimony before the U. S. House Committee on the Judiciary, March 13, 1912

Report of the International Congress of Women, December 1915

The Second Annual Meeting of the Woman's Peace Party, December 9, 1916

Woman's Peace Party Delegates and Alternatives, November 1918

Jane Addams to the Delegates of the International Congress of Women, November 5, 1918

Jane Addams to Leonora O'Reilly, February 9, 1920

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Birth Date

1870-02-16

Death Date

1927-04-03

Birthplace

New York City, New York

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Leonora O'Reilly was the child of a widowed Irish immigrant. She worked under a sewing instructor starting at the age of eleven. From 1903 to 1915 she worked as a recruiter and for the Women’s Trade Union League, and she often spoke of labor reform and women's suffrage, such as when she was a representative in a Senate Committee on Suffrage. O'Reilly was a member of Comte Synthetic Circle and the Socialist Party of New York, she founded the Wage Earners Suffrage League and served as its president from 1911 to 1912, and she was the Chair of the Industrial Committee of the New York City Women Suffrage Party.

O'Reilly never married. In 1907 she adopted a daughter, Alice, who died in 1911. O'Reilly died in 1927.