Keith, Mary McHenry
1855 - 1947

Details
Alias: Mary McHenry
Born: 11/20/1855 in Bay Area, California
Died: 10/13/1947
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Practice Area:
Civil Rights
Will & Estates
Profession:
Probate Law
Women's rights
Regions and States of Practice:
CA, West
Legal Education:
UC Hastings College of Law, 1882
Other Education:
University of California at Berkeley (1879)
Positions During Her Career:
Law practice in San Francisco (1882-1883)
President of the Berkeley Equal Suffrage Club (1906)
President of California Equal Suffrage Association (CESA) (1927)
Firsts:
Woman to graduate from law school in California
Further Research Materials

References:
Barbara Babcock, Alma Mater: Clara Foltz and Hastings College of the Law, 21 Hastings Women's Law Journal 99 (2010)
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
Hastings College of the Law the First Century
Thomas Garden Barnes, Hastings College of Law: The First Century, 57. San Francisco 1978., available at: http://www.uchastings.edu/about/history/barnes-book/index.html
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 595, Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley
Cornelius, Fidelis, Brother, 1877- Keith, old master of California. New York, Putnam [1942-57]
Sidney M. Wales, Mary McHenry Keith, Women's City Club Record, Dec. 1930, at 9.
The Women Voters, The North American, November 15, 1920
Dinner to Keith Boom for Women, S.F. Examiner, May 18, 1909
Mary McHenry Keith, Mrs. Keith Explains Suffragists’ Plans, THE WASP, Dec. 25, 1909.
Many Berkeleyans to Attend Meeting: Prominent People From This City to Talk, BERKELEY RECORDER, Sept. 2, 1909, at 1
Club Women Prepare to Celebrate Independence Day Patriotically, S.F. CHRON., July 3, 1909, at 8
Many Berkeleyans to Attend Meeting: Prominent People From This City to Talk, BERKELEY RECORDER, Sept. 2, 1909.
Mary McHenry Keith, The American Revolution, California Woman's Home and Club Journal, November 30, 1908
Reunion of Girls’ High Graduates, San Francisco Call, April 17, 1907
Says Equal Suffrage Would Purify Politics, San Francisco Bulletin, May 23, 1907
Women Tell Why They Wish for the Ballot -- Members of Berkeley Equal Suffrage Club Explained Why They Joined, Oakland Herald, November 15, 1906
Keith’s Splendid Gift, S.F. CALL, Oct. 30, 1896.
Keith of Berkeley – and Muir of the Scientific World off for Europe, BERKELEY ADVOCATE, May 15, 1893.
Women Lawyers in the United States
Lelia J. Robinson, Women Lawyers in the United States, 2 The Green Bag 10 (1890)
The Social World: Nuptials of Mr. Keith and Miss McHenry at Berkeley, San Francisco Call, June 12, 1883
Society – Notes and Gossip, Argonaut, June 9, 1883
Women and Legal Education: The Case of Boalt Hall
Women and Legal Education: The Case of Boalt Hall, Sandra P. Epstein, The Pacific Historia, Vol. XXVIII No. 3

Student Papers:
An Uncommon Journey: Reflections on the Life of Mary McHenry Keith
Wise, Noel, 2002