Kilgore, Carrie Burnham
1838 - 1909

Details
Alias: Carrie Burnham
Born: 1/20/1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: 6/29/1909
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts

Practice Area:
Civil Rights
Profession:
Women's Rights
Regions and States of Practice:
PA, Northeast
Legal Education:
Penn State Dickinson School of Law, 1883
Other Education:
M.D., Hygeio-Therapeutic College in New York City (1865)
Positions During Her Career:
Taught general education in several schools (1853-1863)
Assistant physician at Lewis' Health Institute (1865)
Private practitioner in her deceased husband's firm in Philadelphia (1888-1909)
Firsts:
Woman to receive a medical degree in New York (1865)
Woman to gain admission to Pennsylvania Law School (1881)
Woman to graduate from Pennsylvania Law School (1883)
Woman admitted to the Pennsylvania bar (1886)
Woman master in chancery in Pennsylvania (1887)


Further Research Materials

References:
Vermont Women's History Project
Vermont Women's History Project, Vermont Historical Society, available at: http://womenshistory.vermont.gov/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879 - 1900
Mary L. Clark, The First Women Members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, 36 San Diego Law Review 87 (1999)
Catherine Aman, Enter the Ladies, Women in the Law, The American Lawyer, March 1999, pp.110-112
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)
Women in the Law: Looking Back for Progress
Jennifer R. Wilder, Women In The Law: Looking Back For Progress, Boston University School of Law Alumni Magazine, Spring 1996, at 4
Rebecca Mae Salokar and Mary L. Volcansek (Eds.), Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1996).
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).
Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore, 29 (26) Chicago Legal News (February 20, 1897)
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
Can Women Practice Law?
Can Women Practice Law? 1 (5) The Law Student's Helper 102 (May 1893)
Women at the Bar, Vol. 1 No. 6
Women at the Bar 1 (6) The Law Student's Helper 138 (June 1893)
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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