Laura Starr Ware Wilkinson (also known as, Mrs. John Wilkinson; June 20, 1843 - November 14, 1921) was an American home economist and the first president of the National Household Economic Association, which promoted the new field of domestic economy.
Laura Starr Ware was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, June 20, 1843, the daughter of Edwin Ware and Harriet S. Ware. She was educated in Deerfield schools and Mrs. David Mach's school, Belmont, Massachusetts. [1]
Her special work was in the interest of domestic economy. During the World's Columbian Exposition she chaired the Congress of Household Economics, and organized the National Columbian Household Economic Association, which proposed to have a vice-president in each state, and a chairman of household economics in each county in each state. [1] Upon formation of the National Household Economic Association, Wilkinson served as its first president, [2] till 1896. [3]
On November 20, 1867, she married John Wilkinson, of Syracuse, New York. She traveled in England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and America. In religious faith, Wilkinson was a Unitarian. She resided in Chicago, Illinois. [1]
Helen Stuart Campbell was an American author, economist, and editor, as well as a social and industrial reformer. She was a pioneer in the field of home economics. Her Household Economics (1897) was an early textbook in the field of domestic science.
Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper was an American educator, author, evangelist, philanthropist, and civic activist. She is remember as a religious teacher and her efforts to increase the wide interest in kindergarten work. Cooper served as first president of the International Kindergarten Union, president of the National Kindergarten Union, president and vice-president of the Woman's Press Association, president of the Woman's Suffrage Association, and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She served as vice-president of the Century Club, treasurer of the World's Federation of Woman's Clubs, a director of the Associated Charities, and one of the five women elected to the Pan-Republican Congress. At the 1893 World's Fair, she delivered thirty-six addresses, and on her return, helped to organize the Woman's Congress of which she was president for two years and at the time of her death. Several years before her death, Mrs. Cooper became a convert to equal suffrage and was president of the Amendment Campaign Committee. A few months before she died, Cooper stated that she was an officer of nineteen societies for charitable purposes.
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National Household Economic Association (1893-1903) was a 19th-century American women's organization which promoted the new field of home economics.
Lillian Rozell Messenger was an American poet from Kentucky. Among her first acknowledged poems were those brought out in a volume entitled, Threads of fate, 1872. Other volumes included Fragments from an old inn, 1885; The Vision of gold, 1886; and The Southern Cross, 1891. "Columbus" was read by Governor John Wesley Hoyt of Wyoming Territory during the patriotic celebration at the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. "In the heart of America," was read at the Cotton States and International Exposition, in Atlanta, 1895. Messenger contributed many poems to the Louisville Journal, Memphis papers, and the New York Home Journal. Her most ambitious poems were lengthy, narrative ones, with themes such as "Charlotte Corday" and "Penelope, the Wife of Ulysses".
Emma Whitcomb Babcock was an American litterateur and author. She did considerable work as book reviewer, and contributed to various leading magazines. She was the author of Household Hints, a domestic management guide, and A Mother's Note Book, as well as other works. She was president of The Belles-Lettres club, well known in western Pennsylvania, which founded a public library.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : American Home Economics Association (1910). The Journal of Home Economics (Public domain ed.). American Home Economics Association. p. 185. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Campbell, Helen (1897). Household Economics: A Course of Lectures in the School of Economics of the University of Wisconsin (Public domain ed.). G. P. Putnam's sons. p. 249. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham (1894). The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893, with Portraits, Biographies and Addresses (Public domain ed.). Monarch Book Company.