List of Sketches Of Notable People By Marguerite Martyn (234 items)report

• Jane Addams, pioneer settlement worker (A)

• Judge Glendy B. Arnold of the divorce court (A)

• Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg, University of Illinois trustee (A)

• Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor, Republican Party activist (A)

• Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, British politician (A)

• Rachel Foster Avery, pioneer suffragist (A)

• Roger Nash Baldwin, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (B)

• Illinois Congressman-elect William N. Baltz and his daughters (B)

• Bertha Barr, delegate to 1936 Republican National Convention (B)

• Ethel Barrymore, actress (B)

• Alva Belmont, socialite and suffrage benefactor (B)

• Mrs. Perry Belmont (Jessie Ann Robbins), wife of the New York politician and diplomat (B)

• Sarah Bernhardt, actress (B)

• Elizabeth Lucy Bibesco, English writer and socialite (B)

• Amelia Bingham, actress (B)

• Alice Stone Blackwell, suffrage leader and editor (B)

• Emily Newell Blair, writer, suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party leader (B)

• Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffragist (B)

• Anna E. Blount, president of the National Medical Women's Association (B)

• Susan Elizabeth Blow, educator, the "Mother of the Kindergarten" (B)

• 'Round-the-world journalist Nellie Bly (B)

• Film actress Eleanor Boardman (B)

• Lawyer and suffragist Inez Milholland Boissevain (B)

• Catherine Booth-Clibborn of the Salvation Army, (B)

• Louise DeKoven Bowen, financial supporter of suffrage movement (B)

• Mary Carroll Craig Bradford, the only woman delegate at the 1908 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado (B)

• Catherine Breshkovsky, "grandmother of the Russian revolution" (B)

• Helene Hathaway Robison Britton, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals (B)

• Sallie Britton, daughter of James H. Britton, mayor of St. Louis, married to James Mackin, New York state treasurer (B)

• Izetta Jewel Brown, actress, women's rights activist and Democratic politician (B)

• Mary K. Browne, professional tennis player and amateur golfer (B)

• Attorney Mary Baird Bryan and her husband, William Jennings Bryan, two-time presidential candidate, and two grandchildren (B)

• Actress Billie Burke (B)

• Mrs. Adolphus Busch III (Florence McRhea Lambert), first wife of the brewery executive (B)

• Sarah Schuyler Butler, Republican activist (B)

• S. Parkes Cadman, minister and advice columnist (C)

• Steelmaker Andrew Carnegie (C)

• Anna Ella Carroll, politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist (C)

• Anna Case, opera singer (C)

• Dancer and animal-rights activist Irene Castle, wife of Chicago businessman Frederic McLaughlin (C)

• Dancer Vernon Castle (C)

• Carrie Chapman Catt, suffrage leader (C)

• Espiridiona Cenda, dancer also known as Chiquita (C)

• Cécile Chaminade, French composer (C)

• Percival Chubb, Ethical Cultural Society leader (C)

• Kate Claxton, actress (C)

• Mrs. Cornelius Cole, one of the first three women accredited to a Republican National Convention (C)

• Nancy Cook, suffragist, educator, political organizer, business woman (C)

• Phoebe Couzins, lawyer (C)

• Caroline Bartlett Crane, known as "America's housekeeper" for her efforts to improve sanitation (C)

• Raymond Crane, comedian and actor (C)

• Missouri Lieutenant Governor Wallace Crossley (C)

• Mrs. Shelby Cullom (Julia Fisher), wife of the Illinois senator (C)

• Pearl Lenore Curran, author and medium, wife of John H. Curran, Missouri immigration commissioner. (C)

• Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and his wife, Addie Worth Bagley (D)

• Dwight F. Davis, businessman and founder of the Davis Cup (D)

• Rose Davis, rodeo rider (D)

• Thamara de Swirsky, dancer (D)

• Actress Marie Doro (D)

• Loren and Dora Doxey, accused of murder (D)

• Anne Dallas Dudley, suffragist (D)

• Aviator Amelia Earhart (E)

• Crystal Eastman, feminist and political activist (E)

• Catherine (Kitty) Elkins, daughter of Senator Stephen Benton Elkins, who wanted to marry Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (E)

• Effie Ellsler, actress (E)

• Julian Eltinge, cross-dressing actor (E)

• Martha P. Falconer, social reformer (F)

• Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate from the Vatican to the United States (F)

• Beatrice Farnham, artist and entrepreneur, the wife of John Otto (park ranger) (F)

• Martha Ellis Fischel, social service worker, mother of Edna Fischel Gellhorn, suffragist and reformer (F)

• Judith Ellen Foster, government official (F)

• James F. Fulbright, representative, Missouri Legislature (F)

• Joe Gans, boxer (G)

• Mary Garden, actress (G)

• Missouri Governor and Mrs. Fred Gardner (G)

• Dancer Adeline Genée (G)

• Edna Fischel Gellhorn (Mrs. George), suffragist and reformer (G)

• James Gibbons, Roman Catholic cardinal (G)

• Artist Charles Dana Gibson (G)

• Irene Langhorne Gibson, philanthropist and Democratic National Convention delegate, the original Gibson Girl (G)

• Catholic Archbishop John J. Glennon (G)

• Emma Goldman, activist and writer (G)

• Samuel Gompers, labor leader (G)

• Edith Kelly Gould, wife of a millionaire Gould (G)

• Edward Howland Robinson Green, the only son of the miser Hetty Green (G)

• Isabella Greenway (Mrs. John C.), Arizona politician (G)

• Minnie J. Grinstead, teacher, Republican politician, and temperance worker (G)

• Mrs. Herbert S. Hadley (Agnes Lee), wife of Missouri's governor (H)

• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, English actress, lecturer, and writer (H)

• Anna Dall, daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (H)

• Florence Mabel Harding, wife of President Warren G. Harding (H)

• Grace Carley Harriman, social leader and philanthropist (H)

• Mary Garrett Hay, New York suffragist (H)

• Grace Bryan Hargreaves, daughter of the William Jennings Bryans (H)

• Millicent Hearst, philanthropist and wife of the newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst (H)

• Robert Herrick (novelist) (H)

• Sallie Aley Hert, Republican activist, married to Alvin Tobias Hert (H)

• Dancer and choreographer Gertrude Hoffmann (H)

• Helen B. Houston, wife of David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture (H)

• Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of the Republican activist (H)

• Writer Fannie Hurst (H)

• May Arkwright Hutton, Idaho suffragist (H)

• Charles "Buffalo" Jones, frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist (J)

• Mary Harris Jones, or "Mother" Jones, the labor organizer (J)

• Annette Kellerman, athlete who swam the English Channel (K)

• Florence Kelley, social and political reformer (K)

• Araminta Cooper Kern, wife of John W. Kern, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, and their son, William (K)

• Missouri State Senator Thomas Kinney (K)

• Mrs. Albert Bond Lambert, socialite. Her husband was an industrialist, aviator, and golfer. (L)

• Mrs. William Palmer Ladd, wife of the dean of the Berkeley Divinity School (L)

• Jacob M. Lashley, lawyer, debated film censorship (L)

• Judge Ben Lindsey, social reformer (L)

• Ruth Bryan Leavitt, politician and the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador (L)

• Fifi Widener Leidy, daughter of Pennsylvania art collector Joseph E. Widener and wife of New York politician George Eustis Paine (L)

• Lydia Lipkowska, opera singer (L)

• Jack London, writer (L)

• Alice Roosevelt Longworth, celebrity and daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (L)

• Daniel A. Lord, American Catholic writer (L)

• Joan Lowell, actress (L)

• Felice Lyne, singer (L)

• Mrs. Norman E. Mack, wife of the editor and publisher of the Buffalo Daily Times, with their daughter, Norma (M)

• Percy MacKaye, actor, director, playwright (M)

• Elliot Woolfolk Major, Missouri governor, and his wife (M)

• Richard Mansfield, actor (M)

• Lois Marshall, wife of Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall (M)

• Elisabeth Marbury, theatrical and literary agent and producer (M)

• Anne Henrietta Martin, president of the National Woman's Party (M)

• Frederick Townsend Martin, New York society leader and writer (M)

• Ned Martin, dancer and choreographer (M)

• Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo, daughter of President Wilson and wife of William Gibbs McAdoo (M)

• Ellen Wilson McAdoo, daughter of Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo and William Gibbs McAdoo (M)

• Sterling H. McCarty, representative, Missouri Legislature (M)

• Edith Rockefeller McCormick (Mrs. Harold), socialite and opera patron (M)

• Katrina McCormick, Republican activist (M)

• Ruth Hanna McCormick (Mrs. Medill), Republican politician (M)

• Catherine Waugh McCulloch, lawyer and suffragist (M)

• Mary McDowell, social reformer (M)

• George McManus, cartoonist, and Florence Bergere (M)

• "Countess" Candido Mendes de Almeida, wife of the Brazilian politician (M)

• Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, author and suffrage advocate (M)

• Mrs. Lee Meriwether, wife of the author (M)

• Patsy Ruth Miller, motion picture actress (M)

• Tamaki Miura, opera singer (M)

• Anne Tracy Morgan, philanthropist (M)

• Alexander Pollock Moore, diplomat, editor and publisher (M)

• Isabel Morrison, wife of New York politician Timothy Woodruff (M)

• "Czar" Thomas E. Mulvihill Sr., St. Louis excise commissioner (M)

• Actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter Mae Murray (M)

• Alla Nazimova, actress (N)

• Oscar Nelson, boxer (N)

• Ione Page Nicoll, worked for repeal of the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment (N)

• Lillian Nordica, opera singer (N)

• Barbara Blackman O'Neil (Mrs. David), socialite and suffragist (O)

• Mrs. John E. Osborne (Selena Smith), wife of the governor of Wyoming (O)

• Theophile Papin, society leader and "squire of debutantes" (P)

• Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragist (P)

• Charles Henry Parkhurst, social reformer (P)

• Cissy Patterson, journalist and publisher (P)

• Irene Pavloska, opera singer (P)

• Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker (Mrs.Percy), president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (P)

• Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer, actress and suffragist (P)

• Gifford Pinchot, forester and politician (P)

• Florence Collins Porter, newspaper editor, clubwoman, political campaigner, a Republican (P)

• Ruth Baker Pratt, Republican politician (P)

• Florence Pretz, inventor of the Billiken doll (P)

• Mrs. James A. Reed (Lura M. Olmsted), wife of the former U.S. senator from Missouri (R)

• Ben Reitman, anarchist and medical doctor (R)

• Agnes Repplier, essayist (R)

• Mrs. Alexander Revell, wife of the Illinois businessman (R)

• The young Florence Wyman Richardson, daughter of the older Florence Wyman Richardson and sister-in-law to Ernest Hemingway (R)

• Lucyle Roberts, rodeo rider (R)

• Margaret Dreier Robins, labor leader (R)

• Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, writer and lecturer (R)

• Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, Parisian property owner (R)

• Ginger Rogers, actress (R)

• Betsey Cushing Roosevelt (R)

• Kermit Roosevelt, writer and businessman, son of Theodore Roosevelt (R)

• President Theodore Roosevelt, his wife (Edith Roosevelt) and his daughter (Ethel Roosevelt) (R)

• Nellie Tayloe Ross, Republican politician and ex-governor of Wyoming (R)

• Charlotte Rumbold, St. Louis and Cleveland social reformer (R)

• Lillian Russell, the actress (R)

• Patrick John Ryan, Catholic prelate (R)

• Pauline Sabin, Republican activist opposed to Prohibition (S)

• Katherine Sandwina, circus strongwoman (S)

• Birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger (S)

• Nathaniel Schmidt, educator (S)

• Rose Schneiderman, labor-union executive (S)

• Mrs. Nathan B. Scott, wife of the U.S. senator from West Virginia (S)

• Cecil J. Sharp, who introduced folk dancing to the United States (S)

• Finley Johnson Shepard, businessman-husband of Helen Gould (S)

• Anna Howard Shaw, suffrage leader (S)

• Ruth Hanna Simms, politician, activist and publisher (S)

• Mrs. Al Smith (Catherine Ann Dunn), wife of the New York governor, and their daughter, Emily Smith Warner (S)

• Elizabeth Blackmon Smith, popular author of romantic fiction who wrote under the name Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith (S)

• Evangelist Gipsy Smith and his wife, Annie E. Pennock (S)

• Senator Reed Smoot of Utah (S)

• Ethel Annakin Snowden, British suffragist and pacifist. (S)

• Christine Bradley South of Kentucky, chairman, Woman's Division, Republican National Committee (S)

• Lena Jones Wade Springs, nominated for U.S. vice-president at 1924 Democratic national convention (S)

• Katherine Stinson, aviatrix (S)

• Rose Pastor Stokes, socialist activist, writer, and feminist (S)

• Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., child prodigy (S)

• Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury (Eva Roberts Cromwell), wife of the investment banker (S)

• Representative William Sulzer of New York and his wife, Clara Rodelheim (S)

• Thamara de Swirsky, Russian dancer[] (S)

• Mrs. Charles P. Taft, wife of the newspaper publisher, and Louise Taft, their daughter (T)

• Presidential candidate William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft, and their grandchildren (T)

• Lilyan Tashman, actress (T)

• Sara Teasdale, poet (T)

• Ellen Terry, actress (T)

• Luisa Tetrazzini, opera singer (T)

• M. Louise Thomas, educator. (T)

• Socialite Edwine Thornburgh, later married to Englishman Wilfrid Peek (T)

• Genevieve Clark Thomson, suffragist, reporter, Louisiana politician and daughter of Speaker of the House Champ Clark (T)

• Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, a Russian artist, and Princess Troubetzkoy, his American wife (T)

• Grace Wilbur Trout, Illinois suffragist (T)

• Harriet Taylor Upton, political activist and author, a Republican (U)

• Bernard Vaughan, Roman Catholic priest from the UK (V)

• Louise Vermilya, mass murderer (V)

• Bertha Von Suttner, Nobel laureate (V)

• Rube Waddell, baseball player (V)

• Charlotte Walker, actress (W)

• Eugene Walter, playwright (W)

• Fannie Ward, actress (W)

• Mabel Walker Willebrandt, attorney and Republican activist (W)

• Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas, reputedly the first woman mayor in the nation (W)

• President Woodrow Wilson and his family, Mrs. Wilson, and their daughters, Margaret, Jessie, and Eleanor (W)

• Film actress Claire Windsor (W)

• Jane Frances Winn, who wrote under the name "Frank Fair" (W)

• Wu Tingfang, Chinese ambassador to the United States (W)

• Margaret (Mrs. John) Wyeth of St. Louis, delegate to 1935 Republican National Convention (W)

• Julie Chamberlain Nichols Yates, sculptor; wife of Halsey E. Yates, Army officer (Y)

• Ella Flagg Young, educator (Y)

• Mrs. Lafayette Young, wife of the Iowa newspaper publisher (Y)

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