Wertman, Sarah Kilgore
1843 -

Details
Alias: Sarah Kilgore
Born: 3/1/1843 in Jefferson, Indiana
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Estates and Trusts
Profession:
Real Estate Law
Regions and States of Practice:
IN, Midwest
OR, West
Legal Education:
University of Michigan Law School, 1871
Northwestern University School of Law, 1869
Positions During Her Career:
Private practitioner with her husband in Indianapolis and then in Ashland (1871-?)
Firsts:
Woman law student in Michigan University (1870)
Woman graduate of Michigan University Law School (1871)
Woman admitted to the Supreme Court of Michigan (1871)


Further Research Materials

References:
Smith, J. Clay (John Clay), Emancipation : The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (1993)
Book Review: Feminist Lawyers
Barbara Allen Babcock, Book Review: Feminist Lawyers, 50 Stanford Law Review 1689 (May 1998)
Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers
Barbara Allen Babcock, Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers. Stanford Law School (July 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)
Virginia G. Drachman, Women Lawyers and the Origins of Professional Identity in America: the Letters of the Equity Club, 1887-1890. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1993)
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).
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 in the United States
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)

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