Eva Ingersoll Wakefield | |
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Born | Eva Ingersoll Brown 1892 |
Died | 1 April 1970 |
Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, activist, humanist |
Organization(s) | Vivisection Investigation League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, American Humanist Association |
Relatives |
Robert G. Ingersoll (grandfather) Eva Parker Ingersoll (grandmother) Maud Ingersoll Probasco (aunt) |
Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield (1892 – 1 April 1970) was a writer, [1] poet, [2] freethinker, and an authority on the life of Robert G. Ingersoll, her grandfather. [3]
Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1892, the daughter of Walston H. and Eva Ingersoll Brown. Her mother, Eva Ingersoll Brown, was a suffragist and activist. [5] She was tutored as a child, and later graduated from Columbia University.
In 1917, Brown married McNeal Swasey, but they later divorced. [6] She married Sherman Day Wakefield, an author, editor, and bibliographer, in 1932. [2] [7] [6] The wedding was performed by John Lovejoy Elliott of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, at the home of her aunt, [8] Maud Ingersoll Probasco. [6] Sherman Wakefield was on the editorial staff of The Humanist and also of Progressive World. [7] Eva herself was a contributor to The Humanist, as well as writing poetry. [2] One of her poems was included in an anthology compiled by Edwin Markham, with whom she studied. [2]
A passionate defender of her grandfather's legacy, [9] Eva Ingersoll Wakefield published The Life and Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll in 1951, and later donated a significant amount of 'Ingersolliana' to the Library of Congress, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and other archives. [10] [11] As well as personal collections and copies of letters kept by her mother (Ingersoll's daughter) and aunt, Wakefield gathered correspondence from letters and journals, and from the collection of Harry Houdini. [10]
Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield was one of the earliest members of the First Humanist Society of New York, founded in 1929, [3] [12] and later President of the New York Chapter of the American Humanist Association. [2]
During the 1930s, Wakefield was active in the Manhattan Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. [2] She was also director of the Vivisection Investigation League [2] and a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. [2]
In addition to editing The Life and Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll, Wakefield was secretary of the Robert G. Ingersoll Memorial Association. [13] [14] which maintained the Robert Ingersoll Birthplace in Dresden, N.Y., as a museum. [2]
She died on 1 April 1970 at the Carolton Hospital in Fairfield, Connecticut. [2] At her memorial service, in lieu of flowers, contributions to the R.G. Ingersoll Memorial Association were requested. [15] Sherman Day Wakefield died the following year. [7]
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Eva Ingersoll Wakefield | |
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Born | Eva Ingersoll Brown 1892 |
Died | 1 April 1970 |
Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, activist, humanist |
Organization(s) | Vivisection Investigation League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, American Humanist Association |
Relatives |
Robert G. Ingersoll (grandfather) Eva Parker Ingersoll (grandmother) Maud Ingersoll Probasco (aunt) |
Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield (1892 – 1 April 1970) was a writer, [1] poet, [2] freethinker, and an authority on the life of Robert G. Ingersoll, her grandfather. [3]
Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1892, the daughter of Walston H. and Eva Ingersoll Brown. Her mother, Eva Ingersoll Brown, was a suffragist and activist. [5] She was tutored as a child, and later graduated from Columbia University.
In 1917, Brown married McNeal Swasey, but they later divorced. [6] She married Sherman Day Wakefield, an author, editor, and bibliographer, in 1932. [2] [7] [6] The wedding was performed by John Lovejoy Elliott of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, at the home of her aunt, [8] Maud Ingersoll Probasco. [6] Sherman Wakefield was on the editorial staff of The Humanist and also of Progressive World. [7] Eva herself was a contributor to The Humanist, as well as writing poetry. [2] One of her poems was included in an anthology compiled by Edwin Markham, with whom she studied. [2]
A passionate defender of her grandfather's legacy, [9] Eva Ingersoll Wakefield published The Life and Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll in 1951, and later donated a significant amount of 'Ingersolliana' to the Library of Congress, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and other archives. [10] [11] As well as personal collections and copies of letters kept by her mother (Ingersoll's daughter) and aunt, Wakefield gathered correspondence from letters and journals, and from the collection of Harry Houdini. [10]
Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield was one of the earliest members of the First Humanist Society of New York, founded in 1929, [3] [12] and later President of the New York Chapter of the American Humanist Association. [2]
During the 1930s, Wakefield was active in the Manhattan Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. [2] She was also director of the Vivisection Investigation League [2] and a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. [2]
In addition to editing The Life and Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll, Wakefield was secretary of the Robert G. Ingersoll Memorial Association. [13] [14] which maintained the Robert Ingersoll Birthplace in Dresden, N.Y., as a museum. [2]
She died on 1 April 1970 at the Carolton Hospital in Fairfield, Connecticut. [2] At her memorial service, in lieu of flowers, contributions to the R.G. Ingersoll Memorial Association were requested. [15] Sherman Day Wakefield died the following year. [7]
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