Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite
| Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite | |
|---|---|
 Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite (1829-1913). Brand Portraits, 1886. | |
| Born |
Catharine Van Valkenburg 1829 Dumfries, New Brunswick |
| Died |
1913 Chicago |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College; Union College of Law |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Known for | president of the Woman's International Bar Association |
Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite (1829, Dumfries, New Brunswick, Canada – November 1913, Chicago) was a United States author, lawyer and women's suffrage activist.
Biography
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1853, and married Charles Burlingame Waite the next year. They had eight children.
She was a graduate of the Union College of Law and a member of the Illinois bar. In 1859, she established Hyde Park Seminary. In 1886, she founded the Chicago Law Times, a quarterly magazine which she edited. Waite was a women's rights activist. At the International Council of Women at Washington, she was elected president of the Woman's International Bar Association, 26 March 1888.[1]
She headed the publishing firm of C. V. Waite and Co., and wrote The Mormon Prophet and His Harem (Cambridge, 1865).[1]
Notes
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Waite, Charles Burlingame". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
References
- "Catharine Van Valkenburg (1830)". SharedTree. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
External links
- Works by C.V. Waite at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite at Internet Archive