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Collson, Mary E. (1871-1953)

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Mary E. Collson to Jane Addams, January 12, 1911

Outline of Peace Lecture, November 1924

Mary E. Collson to Jane Addams, November 14, 1924

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, November 14, 1924

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Birth Date

1871

Death Date

1953-08-29

Birthplace

Biographical Text

Mary E. Collson was the Secretary of the Cherokee Humane Society in Iowa and an organizing leader of the Working Women's Association of America. She was also a founder of the Servant Girls' Union and the organization committee of the Woman's International Union Label League. Prior to this, Collson was a Unitarian minister. She also worked as a probation officer for a juvenile court while living at Hull-House.

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Probation officer

Settlement house resident

Source

Picture: Canton Independent-Sentinel, October 8, 1901, p. 4.

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Children Hull-House Residents Juvenile Delinquency Labor Religion Women's Rights

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Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

Gender

Female

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Bibliography and Links

"Strength in Union: Aims of the Working Woman's Association of America," The York Daily, vol. 95, no. 9642, 1901, p. 7.

Cynthia Grant Tucker, Healer in Harm's Way: Mary Collson, a Clergywoman in Christian Science (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1994), p. xiii.

Mary E . Collson, 1880 United States Federal Census

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Annual Report, vol. 27, 1902, p. 84.

Citation

“Collson, Mary E. (1871-1953),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 27, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/3771.