Bittenbender, Ada Matilde Cole
1848 -

Details
Alias: Ada Matilde Cole
Born: 8/3/1848 in Asylum, Pennsylvania
Professional Facts
Regions and States of Practice:
NE, Midwest
Positions During Her Career:
Editor of husand's paper, the "Record" (1879-1881)
President of Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association (1883)
Formed and worked at the firm of H. C. and Ada M. Bittenbender with her husband (1882)
Admitted to the United States District and Circuit courts for Nebraska
Practices in the Supreme Court of the United States (1888)
Attorney for the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1888)
Firsts:
Woman delegate received by the State Board of Agriculture of Nebraska
Woman admitted to the bar in Nebraska (1881)
Received the largest vote in proportion ever given for the head of the prohibition ticket (1891)
Accomplishments:
Instrumental in Congress's decision to raise the age of consent to sixteen
Further Research Materials

References:
The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879 - 1900
Mary L. Clark, The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, 36 San Diego Law Review 87 (1999)
Smith, J. Clay (John Clay), Emancipation : The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (1993)
The Founding of the Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women
Mary L. Clark, The Founding of the Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women, 47 American University Law Review 613 (1998)
All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
Julia Steele, All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America, 1998
First Women Lawyers in the United States
C. Sleeth, First Women Lawyers in the United States, Bar Association (July 18, 1997)
The Content of Women's Legal Practice
Mary Erickson, The Content of Women's Legal Practice, Stanford, 1988, Emphasis on Women Lawyers' Femininity
Women Lawyers "Legitimized" by Alluding to Their Male-Lawyer Connections
Mary Erickson, Women Lawyers "Legitimized" by Alluding to Their Male-Lawyer Connections (1988)
Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women
Inez Haynes Irwin Gillmore, Angels And Amazons: A Hundred Years Of American Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company (1933).
Stella Reid Crothers, American Women Lawyers, The Home Magazine, September 1907, pp.15
Helen Hamilton Gardener, Have Children a Right to Legal Protection? Arena Publishing Co., 1895
Can Women Practice Law?
Can Women Practice Law? 1 (5) The Law Student's Helper 102 (May 1893)
Women at the Bar, Vol. 1 No. 12
Women at the Bar, 1 (12) The Law Student's Helper 339 (December, 1893)
A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life
Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore (Editors), A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, pp. 210-211. New York: Charles Wells Moulton (1893), available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ
The Prohibitionists Gained, The Atlanta Constitution, November 13, 1893
Ada M. Bittendender
Ada M. Bittendender, 1 (10) The Law Student's Helper 303 (October 1893)
Finishing the Work, The Atlanta Constitution, November 18, 1890
Admission of Women to the Bar
Catharine V. Waite, Admission of Women to the Bar, 1 Chicago Law Times (1887)

Links:
A Woman of the Century - Ada M. Bittenbender

Student Papers:
The Content of Women's Legal Practice
Erickson, Mary, 1988