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A Miss Effie Loader, graduate of the University of Kansas, was a parole officer in Kansas in the 1910s, connected to the Girls' Industrial School at Beloit. That might explain her star-shaped badge in this portrait. In the 1930s she shows up as Superintendent of the State Orphans' Home in Atchison. She's also mentioned in this article as a founder of the Clay Center Carnegie Library in Kansas. claycenter.mykansaslibrary.org/?page_id=26

"The Kansas Senate today has a woman Sergeant-at-Arms for the first time in its history. She Is Miss Effie Loader.  Lieutenant Governor W. Y. (William Yoast) Morgan appointed her In recognition of his women constituents." — The Washington [DC] Herald,  January 17, 1915.  

Oh cool, I was thinking she must have done something more than run a Kansas reform school to make the Bain Service. Thanks!

I 'dunno if there's any real difference between running a reform school and trying to keep order in a state legislature. Maybe the hooligans are older in one than in the other.

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More about her career: www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/s/scoville.htm

pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) Thank you for this link, Penny! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

WOW !!! She did a lot for the health system !! Awesome caption + photo !! God bless her indeed ! Have a grand weekend !!

Mary Harriman Rumsey resp. Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey (November 17, 1881 – December 18, 1934)
She was the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the City of New York of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc.. And she was the daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman and sister to W. Averell Harriman, former New York State Governor and United States Diplomat.
source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harriman_Rumsey

The same woman:

Interesting. . . thanks for the connection b/n the Jr. Lge. and the Settlement movement--must learn more about this. Fascinating--she was essentially the Founder of the Junior League Movement as it exists today.

Thanks B-59 for locating her name. We will add it to our catalog record.

This photo ran in the Sunday (Portland) Oregonian on July 30, 1916 with the caption: "One of of the strongest organizations formed in support of Charles E. Hughes is that of the women of New York, who have raised a large fund and are carrying on active work to assist his campaign. A leading member of the organization is Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, a daughter of the late E. H. Harriman. As Mary Harriman she was well-known socially in New York. She inherited from her father a love of horses and was a frequent exhibitor at horse shows." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-07-30/ed-1/se...

Oh, so sad about the damage! It was a lovely expression captured. American reformer, feminist, and pacifist Jane Addams (1860-1935): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

Luckily, this is not a Bain original, but a photograph of a photographic print by someone else, the original (or a copy) of which may survive elsewhere.