Martha_Gilmore_Robinson

Martha Gilmore Robinson

Martha Gilmore Robinson

American activist

Martha Gilmore Robinson (August 18, 1888 – February 1981) was an American women's rights and civic activist, who founded the Silver Thimble Fund of America, the Woman Citizens' Union, co-founded the Louisiana Landmarks Society, and was president of Louisiana's League of Women Voters.[1]

Biography

Robinson was born in New Orleans, on August 18, 1888, the daughter of attorney and U.S. Representative Samuel Louis Gilmore, and his wife, Martha Frazier Nolan Gilmore.[2] She was educated there at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, and at Sophie Newcomb College, from where she graduated in 1909.[3][2]

She married Robert Gibson Robinson, a graduate of Princeton, and the owner of a successful lumber business. They had four sons and a daughter.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Martha Gilmore Robinson (1888-1981) - NOLA Preservation Timeline Person - Tulane School of Architecture". Tulane University. Archived from the original on 2015-08-05.
  2. [2]
    "Martha Gilmore Robinson - Entries - KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana". Archived from the original on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  3. [3]
    J. Mark Souther (1 October 2006). New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. LSU Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-8071-3193-0. Retrieved 16 September 2016.


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