Waite, Catherine van Valken
1829 -

Details
Alias: Catherine van Valken
Born: 1829 in Dumfries,
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts

Regions and States of Practice:
IL, Midwest
Legal Education:
Northwestern University School of Law, 1886
Other Education:
Knox College
Oberlin College (1853)
Positions During Her Career:
Established and wrote for the Chicago Law Times (1886-1889)
President of the International Woman's Bar Association (1888-1890)


Further Research Materials

References:
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
Miscellany
Mary Erickson, Miscellany, Stanford (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).
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)
Admission of Women to the Bar
Catharine V. Waite, Admission of Women to the Bar, 1 Chicago Law Times (1887)

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Student Papers:
All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
Steele, Julia, 1998