Katrina Ely Tiffany
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![]() Katrina Ely Tiffany, carrying the American flag in a suffrage parade in New York City, 1917 | |
Born | Katrina Brandes Ely March 25, 1875 Altoona, Pennsylvania |
Died | March 11, 1927 New York City | (aged 51)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College |
Known for | suffrage leadership, philanthropy |
Spouse(s) | Charles Louis Tiffany II
(m. 1901) |
Parent(s) | Theodore N. Ely |
Relatives | Gertrude Sumner Ely (sister), Louis Comfort Tiffany (father-in-law) |
Katrina Brandes Ely Tiffany (March 25, 1875 – March 11, 1927) was an American suffragist and philanthropist, from a prominent Philadelphia family.
Early life[]
Katrina Brandes Ely was born March 25, 1875, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Theodore N. Ely and Henrietta van Siden Brandes Ely.[1] Her father was vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. She attended the Baldwin School, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1897.[2][3]
Her sister Gertrude Sumner Ely was a noted philanthropist, who was twice awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery in World War I.[4]
Career[]
Despite her husband's opposition to suffrage work, Katrina Ely Tiffany was president of the New York Collegiate Equal Franchise League,[5] and an officer of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York, and was a regular speaker at the Glen Cove Equal Suffrage Club near her summer home on Long Island.[2] In 1916 she was in the "cordon of honor" at the Atlantic City Suffrage Convention, welcoming President Wilson to the event.[6] She led a 1917 suffrage parade in New York City, carrying a large American flag.[7] After suffrage was won, she was active in the League of Women Voters, campaigned for James W. Wadsworth, and advocated for the League of Nations.[8] In 1920 she wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar titled "Women of To-Morrow Need the College of To-Day".[9]
Tiffany chaired the War Service Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA),[10] and organized knitted donations for sailors, as chair of the 27th Assembly District's Navy Comforts Unit.[11]
Tiffany served on the executive committees of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children[12] and the Sunnyside Day Nursery.[1] She spent a term as president of the Bryn Mawr College alumnae association, and of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.[13]
Personal life[]
Katrina Ely married Charles Louis Tiffany II (1878–1947), son of Louis Comfort Tiffany, in 1901.[14] They lived in New York City, and summered in Oyster Bay Cove on Long Island.[2] She died from pneumonia on March 11, 1927, aged 51 years, in New York City.[15][4] Carrie Chapman Catt and Charles P. Howland spoke at memorial service for Tiffany in New York. "The life of Katrina Ely Tiffany was the best example I know of what a good citizen should be," Catt declared. "She left the world better than she found it."[16] She left the bulk of her estate to her sisters and to the Bryn Mawr College alumnae association.[13]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915. American Commonwealth Company. pp. 817.
Katrina Ely Tiffany.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Petrash, Antonia (2013-06-25). Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781614239642.
- ^ College, Bryn Mawr (1905). Program. p. 165.
Katrina Brandes Ely.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gertrude S. Ely, Heroine of 1918". The New York Times. 1970-10-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
- ^ Goodier, Susan; Pastorello, Karen (2017-09-15). Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501713194.
- ^ Blair, Emily Newell; Laas, Virginia Jeans (1999). Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair, 1877–1951. University of Missouri Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780826260925.
- ^ Neuman, Johanna (2017-09-05). Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote. NYU Press. p. 123. ISBN 9781479837069.
- ^ "Mrs. C. L. Tiffany, Civic Worker, Dead; One-Time Noted Suffragette Succumbs to Pneumonia After a Week's Illness". The New York Times. March 12, 1927. p. 15 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Tiffany, Katrina Ely (March 1920). "Women of To-Morrow Need the College of To-Day". Harper's Bazaar. 55: 51, 132 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Lemay, Kate Clarke; Goodier, Susan; Tetrault, Lisa; Jones, Martha (2019-03-26). Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. Princeton University Press. pp. 74–75. ISBN 9780691191171.
- ^ Tiffany, Katrina Ely (July 29, 1917). "Women Invited to Knit". The New York Times. p. 68 – via ProQuest.
- ^ New York Infirmary for Women and Children (1909). Annual Report. New York. p. 8.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Mrs. Tiffany Leaves Estate to Bryn Mawr". The New York Times. March 31, 1927. p. 25 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Yale University Class of 1900 (1905). Triennial Record. p. 80.
- ^ "Mrs. Katrina Ely Tiffany". Harrisburg Telegraph. March 14, 1927. p. 9. Retrieved September 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. Tiffany Honored at Memorial Service". The New York Times. April 21, 1927. p. 27 – via ProQuest.
External links[]
- Katrina Ely Tiffany at Find a Grave
- A photograph of Katrina Tiffany, from the Carrie Chapman Catt albums, Bryn Mawr College Library.
- A letter from Katrina Ely Tiffany to Ida M. Tarbell (June 7, 1924), in the correspondence of Ida M. Tarbell, Allegheny College.
- 1875 births
- 1927 deaths
- People from Altoona, Pennsylvania
- American suffragists
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- The Baldwin School alumni