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There's a brief bio and a much later photo of her at this page (scroll down, a little past half way): www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/about/founders/donors... "Gertrude Van Wagenen, a Yale research scientist, bequeathed, through her brother, Anthony van Wagenen, her marvelous collection of illustrated anatomical works as well as goiter dolls and ivory anatomical manikins. Married to Crawford F. Failey, M.D., who inherited great wealth, she began collecting on travels abroad in the 1920s. Van Wagenen obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1919. Beginning in 1931, commuting from her home in New York City, she established a research laboratory and colony of macaque monkeys, at Yale, and carried out pioneering research on the reproductive biology of primates. Her modest official title as Research Associate in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Lecturer in Anatomy, belied her many scientific achievements. Van Wagenen’s collection included several triple folio works such as the eighteenth-century color mezzotints of anatomies by Jacques Gautier d’Agoty." She doesn't have a Wikipedia entry. Yet.

These are wonderful details, Penny. Let's get her up on Wikipedia! Effie, Smithsonian Institution Archives

Beautiful portrait !

Smithsonian Institution Done! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Van_Wagenen

Penny, way to go! Her name will grow in notoriety! Cheers, Effie

Katharine Dexter McCormick (August 27, 1875 – December 28, 1967) was a U.S. biologist, suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She is remembered for funding most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill. Notably, her husband does not have a Wikipedia entry (yet)...

She was the granddaughter of Judge Samuel William Dexter, the founder of Dexter Village, MI (about ten miles west of my hometown of Ann Arbor), and the daughter of Wirt Dexter, prominent Chicago attorney and financier. (The Louis Sullivan-designed Wirt Dexter Building, a Chicago landmark, burned to ashes a few years ago.) Katharine's husband was the fabulously wealthy Stanley McCormick of Chicago, a member of the family that invented the McCormick Reaper and founded the International Harvester Company. Unfortunately, Stanley McCormick went mad.

She's also familiar as one of the main characters in TC Boyle's Riven Rock, a novel based on the story of Stanley McCormick's madness and retreat to an estate near Santa Barbara.

episodesandaccidents, Wystan and pennylrichardsca--thank you for identifying Katherine Dexter McCormick. We will add some of these details to the record when we update.

"Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger In January 1916 she was placed on trial before the United States court in New York on the charge of having sent through the mails indecent literature (about birth control), see e.g. The Evening herald., January 25, 1916, Page 4 (with photo of her and her sons).

B-59: Thank you for providing the background on Sanger as well as the reason she might have been in the news at the time. We will add some details to this record as well as to the other photos of Sanger in Flickr.

An account (with photo) of her appearance in Federal Court in New York for her trial, at which she was to represent herself, ran in the New York Press, 1/19/1916.
fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/...
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