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'''Marion A. McBride''' |
'''Marion A. McBride''', also spelled MacBride (January 5, 1850 – September 18, 1909), was an American journalist and [[Woman's club movement|clubwoman]]. She founded several women's press associations, most notably the [[New England Woman's Press Association]]. She wrote and lectured on [[domestic science]], and was active in charitable causes and local politics. It was largely due to McBride's activism that the state of [[Massachusetts]] began hiring [[matrons]] for city police stations and built a separate facility for female inmates in Boston. |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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Marion A. McBride (née Snow) was born on January 5, 1850, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the only child of Joseph Preston Snow. She was educated in New York, but spent most of her life in the Boston area.<ref name="howe">{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Julia Ward | |
Marion A. McBride (née Snow) was born on January 5, 1850, in [[Easthampton, Massachusetts|Easthampton]], Massachusetts, the only child of Joseph Preston Snow. She was educated in New York, but spent most of her life in the Boston area.<ref name="howe">{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Julia Ward |author-link=Julia Ward Howe |last2=Graves |first2=Mary Hannah |title=Representative Women of New England |publisher=New England Historical Publishing Company |date=1904 |page=[https://archive.org/details/representativew00elligoog/page/n562 425] |url=https://archive.org/details/representativew00elligoog}}</ref><ref name="jetr">{{cite web |website=The Journal of Emma Tilton Richards |title=September 11, 1888 |date=September 1888 |url=https://journalofemmatiltonrichards.wordpress.com/1888/09/01/saturday-september-1-1888/}}</ref> |
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=== Journalism career === |
=== Journalism career === |
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She began her career at the ''[[New |
She began her career at the ''[[New-York Tribune]]'' before taking a job in 1880 as a special editorial writer for ''[[The Boston Post ]]''.<ref name="globe-obit">{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=September 18, 1909 |title=Mrs Marion A. McBride Dead: Noted Woman Passes Away at Arlington. Three Press Associations the Result of Her Efforts. Founded Department at Mechanics Fair. |url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/501336955.html |url-access=subscription }}</ref> She was a reporter and correspondent for the ''Boston Post'' from 1881 to 1885. After leaving the ''Post'' she worked as a freelance writer, contributing regularly to ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', the ''[[New York Herald]]'', the ''[[The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate|New Orleans Picayune]]'', the ''[[The Plain Dealer|Cleveland Plain Dealer]]'', the ''[[Northampton Herald & Post]]'', the ''[[Chicago Inter Ocean]]'', and the ''St. Louis Chronicle''. She headed a department of ''[[American Art (journal)|American Art]]'', and wrote articles about domestic science for ''[[The Decorator and Furnisher]]'', ''[[The New England Magazine]]'', and other periodicals.<ref name="howe" /><ref name="globe-obit" /> |
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At the [[World Cotton Centennial]] in 1884, McBride was superintendent of the press for the woman's department. While she was there, working with women of the press from all over the country, she organized the [[National Woman's Press Association]] (NWPA). Within two years the NWPA had evolved into the International Woman's Press Association.<ref name="howe" /> The organization spawned several local chapters, including the [[Illinois Woman's Press Association]],<ref name="iwpa">{{cite web |website=Illinois Women's Press Association |url=http://www.iwpa.org/membership/our-history/ |title=Our History}}</ref> the Ohio Woman's Press Association, the Southern Woman's Press Association, and the [[New England Woman's Press Association]] (NEWPA). McBride initiated the founding of NEWPA in 1885.<ref name="globe-obit" /> At the time, newspaper women were still a rarity; one 1887 ''Boston Globe'' headline referred to the women of NEWPA as "lady newspaper men."<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=February 2, 1887 |title=Lady Newspaper Men. Yesterday's Meeting of the New England Woman's Press Association |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/493387066.html | |
At the [[World Cotton Centennial]] in 1884, McBride was superintendent of the press for the woman's department. While she was there, working with women of the press from all over the country, she organized the [[National Woman's Press Association]] (NWPA). Within two years the NWPA had evolved into the International Woman's Press Association.<ref name="howe" /> The organization spawned several local chapters, including the [[Illinois Woman's Press Association]],<ref name="iwpa">{{cite web |website=Illinois Women's Press Association |url=http://www.iwpa.org/membership/our-history/ |title=Our History}}</ref> the [[Ohio Woman's Press Association]], the Southern Woman's Press Association, and the [[New England Woman's Press Association]] (NEWPA). McBride initiated the founding of NEWPA in 1885.<ref name="globe-obit" /> At the time, newspaper women were still a rarity; one 1887 ''Boston Globe'' headline referred to the women of NEWPA as "lady newspaper men."<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=February 2, 1887 |title=Lady Newspaper Men. Yesterday's Meeting of the New England Woman's Press Association |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/493387066.html |url-access=subscription }}</ref> |
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=== Police matron bill === |
=== Police matron bill === |
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Her ''Boston Globe'' obituary suggests that she was best remembered in Boston for her work with "Mrs. Charpiot's home for intemperate women," and for her work on the police matron bill.<ref name="globe-obit" /> Starting in November 1886, McBride led a campaign to hire matrons to work in Boston's police stations. By May 1887, the Massachusetts legislature had passed a bill to appoint police matrons in all Massachusetts cities, and establish a house of detention for women in Boston.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Sewall |editor-first=May Wright | |
Her ''Boston Globe'' obituary suggests that she was best remembered in Boston for her work with "Mrs. Charpiot's home for intemperate women," and for her work on the police matron bill.<ref name="globe-obit" /> Starting in November 1886, McBride led a campaign to hire matrons to work in Boston's police stations. By May 1887, the Massachusetts legislature had passed a bill to appoint police matrons in all Massachusetts cities, and establish a house of detention for women in Boston.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Sewall |editor-first=May Wright |editor-link=May Wright Sewall |title=The World's Congress of Representative Women |publisher=Rand, McNally |date=1894 |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldscongressr03sewagoog/page/n392 808] |url=https://archive.org/details/worldscongressr03sewagoog}}</ref> Massachusetts was the first state to pass such a law.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=May 4, 1887 |title=The Woman's Hour. Police Matrons in the Station Houses. Story of the Movement Which Secured This Reform in Massachusetts. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9453595/the_boston_weekly_globe/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{open access}}</ref> |
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=== Charitable and other activities === |
=== Charitable and other activities === |
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In the early 1880s, McBride organized the first Woman's Department at the annual [[New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute]] fair in Boston. She also headed the Woman's Department of the [[Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association]]. She was a national superintendent of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]], and served for many years as secretary of the Woman's Charity Club.<ref name="howe" /> She was a member of the [[National League of American Pen Women]], the [[Rumford, Rhode Island|Rumford Historical Association]], the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]],<ref name="globe920" /> the New England Helping Hand Society, and other civic and charitable organizations.<ref name="globe-obit" /> |
In the early 1880s, McBride organized the first Woman's Department at the annual [[New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute]] fair in Boston. She also headed the Woman's Department of the [[Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association]]. She was a national superintendent of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]], and served for many years as secretary of the Woman's Charity Club.<ref name="howe" /> She was a member of the [[National League of American Pen Women]], the [[Rumford, Rhode Island|Rumford Historical Association]], the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]],<ref name="globe920" /> the New England Helping Hand Society, and other civic and charitable organizations.<ref name="globe-obit" /> |
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In 1888, McBride read a paper titled "Women in Journalism" at the [[International Council of Women]] in Washington D.C |
In 1888, McBride read a paper titled "Women in Journalism" at the [[International Council of Women]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="icw">{{cite book |last1=McBride |first1=Marion A. |title=Report of the International Council of Women |publisher=R. H. Darby |date=1888 |chapter=Women in Journalism |pages=183–184 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183}}</ref> |
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She died at her home on Hillside Avenue in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1909. Her obituary cites "Paralysis" as the cause of death. She was survived by a son, James McBride, who worked as a naval architect at the [[Fore River Shipyard]] in Quincy.<ref name="globe-obit" /> Among those who attended her funeral in Arlington Heights were members of the WCTU, NEWPA, DAR, and the Home for Intemperate Women. She was buried in the family lot in [[Williamsburg, Massachusetts]].<ref name="globe920">{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=September 20, 1909 |title=Many Pay Last Tribute: Funeral Services for Mrs Marion A. McBride, Noted Newspaper Woman |page=13 |url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/501335443.html | |
She died at her home on Hillside Avenue in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1909. Her obituary cites "Paralysis" as the cause of death. She was survived by a son, James McBride, who worked as a naval architect at the [[Fore River Shipyard]] in Quincy.<ref name="globe-obit" /> Among those who attended her funeral in Arlington Heights were members of the WCTU, NEWPA, DAR, and the Home for Intemperate Women. She was buried in the family lot in [[Williamsburg, Massachusetts|Williamsburg]], Massachusetts.<ref name="globe920">{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=September 20, 1909 |title=Many Pay Last Tribute: Funeral Services for Mrs Marion A. McBride, Noted Newspaper Woman |page=13 |url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/501335443.html |url-access=subscription }}</ref> |
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==References== |
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==Further reading== |
==Further reading== |
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* {{cite journal |last1=Pfeffer |first1=Miki |title=An Enlarging Influence: Women of New Orleans, Julia Ward Howe, and the Woman's Department at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-1885 |journal=University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations |date=2011 |url=http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1339}} 1339. |
* {{cite journal |last1=Pfeffer |first1=Miki |title=An Enlarging Influence: Women of New Orleans, Julia Ward Howe, and the Woman's Department at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-1885 |journal=University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations |date=2011 |url=http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1339}} 1339. |
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* {{cite journal |last1=Conant |first1=Frances A. |author-link=Frances Augusta Hemingway Conant |journal=The New Era |date=December 1885 |volume=1 |issue=12 |page=376 |title=National Press Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_hCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA376}} |
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Latest revision as of 05:08, 1 April 2024
Marion A. McBride | |
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| Born | Marion A. Snow January 5, 1850 Easthampton, Massachusetts |
| Died | September 18, 1909 (aged 59) Arlington Heights, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Williamsburg, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Journalist and clubwoman |
| Children | James D. McBride |
Marion A. McBride, also spelled MacBride (January 5, 1850 – September 18, 1909), was an American journalist and clubwoman. She founded several women's press associations, most notably the New England Woman's Press Association. She wrote and lectured on domestic science, and was active in charitable causes and local politics. It was largely due to McBride's activism that the state of Massachusetts began hiring matrons for city police stations and built a separate facility for female inmates in Boston.
Biography
[edit]Marion A. McBride (née Snow) was born on January 5, 1850, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the only child of Joseph Preston Snow. She was educated in New York, but spent most of her life in the Boston area.[1][2]
Journalism career
[edit]She began her career at the New-York Tribune before taking a job in 1880 as a special editorial writer for The Boston Post .[3] She was a reporter and correspondent for the Boston Post from 1881 to 1885. After leaving the Post she worked as a freelance writer, contributing regularly to The Boston Globe, the New York Herald, the New Orleans Picayune, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Northampton Herald & Post, the Chicago Inter Ocean, and the St. Louis Chronicle. She headed a department of American Art, and wrote articles about domestic science for The Decorator and Furnisher, The New England Magazine, and other periodicals.[1][3]
At the World Cotton Centennial in 1884, McBride was superintendent of the press for the woman's department. While she was there, working with women of the press from all over the country, she organized the National Woman's Press Association (NWPA). Within two years the NWPA had evolved into the International Woman's Press Association.[1] The organization spawned several local chapters, including the Illinois Woman's Press Association,[4] the Ohio Woman's Press Association, the Southern Woman's Press Association, and the New England Woman's Press Association (NEWPA). McBride initiated the founding of NEWPA in 1885.[3] At the time, newspaper women were still a rarity; one 1887 Boston Globe headline referred to the women of NEWPA as "lady newspaper men."[5]
Police matron bill
[edit]Her Boston Globe obituary suggests that she was best remembered in Boston for her work with "Mrs. Charpiot's home for intemperate women," and for her work on the police matron bill.[3] Starting in November 1886, McBride led a campaign to hire matrons to work in Boston's police stations. By May 1887, the Massachusetts legislature had passed a bill to appoint police matrons in all Massachusetts cities, and establish a house of detention for women in Boston.[6] Massachusetts was the first state to pass such a law.[7]
Charitable and other activities
[edit]In the early 1880s, McBride organized the first Woman's Department at the annual New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute fair in Boston. She also headed the Woman's Department of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. She was a national superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and served for many years as secretary of the Woman's Charity Club.[1] She was a member of the National League of American Pen Women, the Rumford Historical Association, the Daughters of the American Revolution,[8] the New England Helping Hand Society, and other civic and charitable organizations.[3]
In 1888, McBride read a paper titled "Women in Journalism" at the International Council of Women in Washington, D.C.[9]
She died at her home on Hillside Avenue in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1909. Her obituary cites "Paralysis" as the cause of death. She was survived by a son, James McBride, who worked as a naval architect at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy.[3] Among those who attended her funeral in Arlington Heights were members of the WCTU, NEWPA, DAR, and the Home for Intemperate Women. She was buried in the family lot in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company. p. 425.
- ^ "September 11, 1888". The Journal of Emma Tilton Richards. September 1888.
- ^ a b c d e f "Mrs Marion A. McBride Dead: Noted Woman Passes Away at Arlington. Three Press Associations the Result of Her Efforts. Founded Department at Mechanics Fair". The Boston Globe. September 18, 1909.
- ^ "Our History". Illinois Women's Press Association.
- ^ "Lady Newspaper Men. Yesterday's Meeting of the New England Woman's Press Association". The Boston Globe. February 2, 1887.
- ^ Sewall, May Wright, ed. (1894). The World's Congress of Representative Women. Rand, McNally. p. 808.
- ^ "The Woman's Hour. Police Matrons in the Station Houses. Story of the Movement Which Secured This Reform in Massachusetts". The Boston Globe. May 4, 1887 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Many Pay Last Tribute: Funeral Services for Mrs Marion A. McBride, Noted Newspaper Woman". The Boston Globe. September 20, 1909. p. 13.
- ^ McBride, Marion A. (1888). "Women in Journalism". Report of the International Council of Women. R. H. Darby. pp. 183–184.
Further reading
[edit]- Pfeffer, Miki (2011). "An Enlarging Influence: Women of New Orleans, Julia Ward Howe, and the Woman's Department at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-1885". University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1339.
- Conant, Frances A. (December 1885). "National Press Association". The New Era. 1 (12): 376.
- Marion A. McBride in libraries (WorldCat catalog)