Ahrens, Mary A.
1836 -

From James Bradwell, Portraits of Twenty-Seven Illinois Women Lawyers (1900).
From James Bradwell, Portraits of Twenty-Seven Illinois Women Lawyers (1900).

Details
Born: 12/29/1836
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Civil Rights
Profession:
Women's Rights
Regions and States of Practice:
IL, Midwest
Legal Education:
Northwestern University School of Law, 1889
Other Education:
Chicago Union College of Law (now Northwestern University) (1889)
Positions During Her Career:
Vice-president of the Protective Agency for Women and Children
Chairman of the Woman's School Suffrage Association of Cook County
Member of the Illinois Woman's Press Association
Firsts:
Woman teacher in Southern Illinois for African-American students.


Further Research Materials

References:
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
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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