Nash, Clara Hapgood
1839 -

Details
Alias: Clara Hapgood
Born: 1/15/1839 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts

Regions and States of Practice:
ME, Northeast
MA, Northeast
Positions During Her Career:
Practiced with her husband in Washington County, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine
Firsts:
Woman admitted to the bar in New England (1872)


Further Research Materials

References:
Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry: Clara Hosmer Hapgood Nash
James R. Elkins, Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry, September 2, 2001-September, 2006, available at: http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/nash.html
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)
Occupations for Women
Frances Willard, Helen Maria Winslow, Sallie Elizabeth Joy White, Occupations for Women, "Women at the Bar." Success Co.: 1897. Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=XkwbAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA402&ots=Ye723_xDi6&dq=Frances%20Willard%2C%20Occupations%20for%20Women%20%281897%29&pg=PA371#v=onepage&q&f=false
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
Women Lawyers (1876)
Women Lawyers, The Woman's Journal (April 22, 1876)

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