Couzins, Phoebe Wilson
1842 -

Details
Born: 9/8/1842 in St. Louis, Missouri
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Regions and States of Practice:
DC, South
CA, West
MT, West
Legal Education:
Washington University in St. Louis Law School
Positions During Her Career:
United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri
Commissioner for Missouri on the National Board of Charities and Correction
Commissioner for Missouri on the World's Fair Board of Directors (1890)
Secretary and treasurer of the Lyceum, Washington University Law School's first student organization
Vice-President of Washington University Law School's first Alumni Association
Member and officer of the Women's Suffrage Association of Missouri
Special contributor to "The Revolution"
Member of the Equal Rights Association
Testified at least three times before the House Judiciary Committee on woman suffrage bills
Administrator for US Census Corps
Secretary of the Board of Lady Managers for the Chicago World's Fair
Firsts:
Woman to be appointed to a federal executive office
Woman law graduate in Missouri
Woman to speak at a national political convention
Woman graduate of the Washington University Law School
Woman to be a United States Marshal
Accomplishments:
Helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association
Further Research Materials

References:
Smith, J. Clay (John Clay), Emancipation : The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (1993)
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)
C. Waal & B. O. Korner, Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing About Their Lives, 1820-1920. Columbia: University of Missouri Press (1997)
Edward T. James (Ed.), Janet Wilson James (Assoc. Ed.), and Paul S. Boyer (Ass. Ed.), Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1971).
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).
Phoebe Couzins Recants, New York World, April 5, 1897
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)

Links:
Phoebe Couzins

Student Papers:
An Introduction to Phoebe Wilson Couzins
Sanders, Matthew J., 2000
Potential Paper Topics:
An analysis of her writings pertaining to Minor v. Happersett (note that this topic has been covered by a previous paper).
Research into her work for the temperance movement.
An analysis of her early legal cases.
Research into her work for a woman suffrage bill.
An analysis of her work as a United States Marshal.
An analysis of Couzins v. Palmer et al.