Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell

For the article about the art curator, see Sarah Tyson Hallowell.
Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell

Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell or Sarah Cresson Fraley Hallowell (1833–1914) was an American journalist. She was editor of The New Century for Women, editor of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia and founder and first president of the New Century Club.

Personal life

Sarah Catherine Fraley, born on July 8, 1833,[1] was the daughter of Frederick Fraley, who was the Western Savings Fund president.[2] For 21 years he served as the president of the American Philosophical Society, the second longest serving president behind Benjamin Franklin.[3] Her mother was Jane Chapman Cresson Fraley and her siblings were Elizabeth, Mercy and Joseph.[4]

Hallowell was the second wife of Joshua Longstreth Hallowell,[2] whose brother was abolitionist and businessman, Morris Longstreth Hallowell.[2] They had a daughter, Jean Fraley Hallowell. The family lived in Germantown and were on Philadelphia's Social Register.[5]

She was related by marriage to art curator and exhibition organizer Sarah Tyson Hallowell.[6]

Career

Hallowell was editor of New Century for Women, editor of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia and founder and first president of the New Century Club.[6]

She attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania[7] and a member of the Pennsylvania Women's Suffrage Association.[8]

New Century for Women

New Century for Women was an eight-page weekly paper created and managed by the Women's Centennial Executive Committee of Philadelphia. It was "devoted to the Industrial interest of women" by promoting choice, equal pay for equal work, and greater financial and social autonomy.[8]

New Century Club

The New Century Club was a woman's organization that was established in 1877[9] to improve the lives of women. It had committees for working women, municipal affairs and self-education. Rather than portraying the opinions of the "radical" viewpoints of some of its members, the Hallowell, its first president, said that they only "whispered... [the] logic of suffrage." As the organization evolved, they moved into social reform.[7]

Public Ledger

Hallowell was the associate editor, literary editor, and writer of "Household" for the Public Ledger. She was at the Ledger for 18 years.[10] beginning in 1877.[11]

Death

She died on March 17, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[12]

Published works

  • Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell (1877). Nan; the new fashioned girl. John S. Marr & Sons.
  • Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell. On the Church Steps.[11]
  • Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell (contributor) (1886). Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Stories. D. Lothrop Company. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

References

  1. ^ Sarah Cressen Farley Hallowell. Death March 17, 1914. Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
  2. ^ a b c Emma Jones Lapsansky; Anne A. Verplanck (2003). Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 362. ISBN 0-8122-3692-0.
  3. ^ Bonnier Corporation (March 1902). "Popular Science". The Popular Science Monthly. Bonnier Corporation: 430. ISSN 0161-7370.
  4. ^ Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1912). Philadelphia: A History of the City and Its People, a Record of 225 Years. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 418.
  5. ^ Social Register, Philadelphia, Including Wilmington. Social Register Association. 1913. p. 97.
  6. ^ a b Emma Jones Lapsansky; Anne A. Verplanck (2003). Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 275. ISBN 0-8122-3692-0.
  7. ^ a b Katharine Martinez; Page Talbott; Elizabeth Johns (2000). Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy. Temple University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-56639-791-9.
  8. ^ a b Katharine Martinez; Page Talbott; Elizabeth Johns (2000). Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy. Temple University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-56639-791-9.
  9. ^ Katharine Martinez; Page Talbott; Elizabeth Johns (2000). Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy. Temple University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-56639-791-9.
  10. ^ Friends' Intelligencer. Friends' Intelligencer Corporation. 1895. p. 767.
  11. ^ a b Oscar Fay Adams (1904). A Dictionary of American Authors. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. p. 495. ISBN 9780781208420.
  12. ^ Sarah Cresson Fraley Hallowell. Died March 19, 1914. "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915." Philadelphia City Archives. "Death Records."