Clara Cahill Park Explained

Clara Cahill Park
Birth Name:Clara Belle Cahill
Birth Date:July 2, 1868
Birth Place:Michigan
Death Date:October 28, 1951 (age 83)
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois
Occupation:Social worker, reformer, artist, writer
Spouse(S):Robert E. Park
Children:4, including Margaret Park Redfield
Father:Edward Cahill
Relatives:Robert Redfield (son-in-law)
Lisa Peattie (granddaughter)

Clara Cahill Park (July 2, 1868 – October 28, 1951) was an American social worker, artist, feminist, and writer.

Early life and education

Clara Belle Cahill was born in Michigan, the daughter of Edward Cahill and Lucy Crawford Cahill. Her father was an abolitionist lawyer, a Union Army veteran, and a judge on the Michigan Supreme Court.[1] She trained as an artist at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Institute of Chicago.[2] [3]

Career

Park was vice-president of the Massachusetts Congress of Mothers, and worked with the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs to promote a public pension for widowed mothers,[4] [5] [6] asking "why shouldn't the state pay the money to the mother herself to help her live in decency and bring up her own family?"[7] [8] The campaign was successful and a provision for widows' pensions became state law in 1913.[9] In 1912 and 1913, she contributed several short essays to Boston Globe panel discussions on marriage and family questions such as "What is the Essential Purpose of Marriage?" and "How Do Loveless Marriages Affect Offspring?"[10] [11]

In 1926 and 1927 she went to Mexico to live with her daughter Margaret Park Redfield and son-in-law Robert Redfield, and her young grandchildren, while the Redfields were doing anthropological fieldwork in Tepoztlán.[12] In 1930s she gave lectures,[13] and exhibited pastel portraits she made in her world travels, at exhibits in Hawaii, Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil, and across the United States.[14] [15] [16] In 1949 she joined her daughter Theodosia Park Breed[17] and granddaughter Sylvia Breed in a "three generations" art show in Chicago.[18]

Publications

Personal life

Clara Cahill married sociologist Robert E. Park in 1894.[32] [33] They had four children. She was effectively a single parent for long stretches, as her husband lived in another state to teach or traveled abroad for study; she found the arrangement difficult, writing to her husband that "I have been imposed on, not intentionally, but carelessly and veritably". Her husband died in 1944,[34] and she died in 1951, at the age of 83, in Chicago.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries . 1909 . L.R. Hamersly . 1290 . en.
  2. Book: Deegan, Mary Jo . https://books.google.com/books?id=DIZSEAAAQBAJ&dq=Clara%20Cahill%20Park&pg=PA21 . Diverse Histories of American Sociology . 2005-06-01 . Brill . 978-90-474-0741-6 . Blasi . Anthony . 20-23; quote on p. 23 . en . A Private Trouble Behind the Gendered Division of Labor in Sociology: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park.
  3. Deegan, Mary Jo. "A Twisted Path: Park, Gender, and Praxis" in Peter Kivisto, ed., The Anthem Companion to Robert Park (Anthem Press 2017).
  4. Book: Skocpol, Theda . Protecting Soldiers and Mothers . 2009-06-30 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-04372-5 . 548 . en.
  5. Book: Selected Articles on Mothers' Pensions . 1915 . H.W. Wilson Company . 137–139 . en.
  6. Book: Gustafson, Melanie . Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 . 2001-10-15 . University of Illinois Press . 978-0-252-09323-4 . 224, note 111 . en.
  7. Baker . Ray Stannard . March 1913 . Mrs. Clara Cahill Park . The American Magazine . 75 . 5 . 33, 35.
  8. News: 1913-07-30 . For Relief of Mothers; Question Discussed at Meeting of School of Eugenics . 3 . The Boston Globe . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  9. Book: Municipal Research: To Promote the Application of Scientific Principles to Government . 1917 . Bureau of Municipal Research . 12–15 . en.
  10. News: 1912-04-28 . What is the Essential Purpose of Marriage? . 46 . The Boston Globe . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1913-09-21 . For What Business Enterprises are Women Best Adapted? . 46 . The Boston Globe . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Book: Murray, Stephen O. . https://books.google.com/books?id=weYjg9E5nuYC&dq=Clara%20Cahill%20Park&pg=PA65 . Histories of Anthropology Annual . 2006-02-01 . U of Nebraska Press . 978-0-8032-6657-5 . Darnell . Regna . 65–66 . en . American Anthropologists Discover Peasants . Gleach . Frederic W..
  13. News: 1934-02-03 . Noted Artist Tells Club India is Decadent as Africa Emerges . 7 . Lansing State Journal . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1932-06-11 . Clara Cahill Park's Pastels Are Shown . 28 . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1935-12-12 . Art Exhibit Opens Today at Woman's Club . 7 . Nashville Banner . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1932-06-19 . Buck Portrait is Feature of Art Exhibit . 26 . The Honolulu Advertiser . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  17. Web site: Theodosia Breed – Illinois Women Artists . 2023-02-27 . en-US.
  18. News: 1949-05-13 . Three Generations in Family Exhibit their Paintings . 25 . Chicago Tribune . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  19. Park, Clara Cahill. "Coming to New York to Study Art." Harper’s Young People (1894).
  20. Park, Clara Cahill. "The Manners Tart." Philistine: A Periodical of Protest 1 (1895).
  21. Park . Clara Cahill . August 1896 . The True Story of Blackbird . The Clack Book . 1 . 133–145.
  22. Park . Clara Cahill . September 1896 . The Gnome and the Fauns . The Clack Book . 1 . 6 . 165–171.
  23. Park, Clara Cahill. Native Women in Africa: Their Hard Lot in the March of Progress. Congo Committee of the Massachusetts Commission, 1904.
  24. Park, Clara Cahill. "Widows’ Pension in Massachusetts." Child Welfare Magazine 6, no. 10 (1912): 343-46.
  25. Park, Clara Cahill. "Union for Mother Protection in Germany." Child Welfare Magazine 6, no. 10 (1912): 364-365.
  26. News: 1912-07-21 . Are Men or Women the Greater Spendthrifts? . 40 . The Boston Globe . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  27. News: 1913-02-16 . How Do Loveless Marriages Affect Offspring? . 46 . The Boston Globe . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  28. Park, Clara Cahill. "Helping the widowed mother keep a home." Home Progress 2, no. April (1913): 43-48.
  29. Park, Clara Cahill. "Motherhood and Pensions." Survey 30, no. 12 April (1913): 74-74.
  30. Park, Clara Cahill. "Pensions for Mothers." Survey 30, no. 30 August (1913): 669-669.
  31. News: Park . Clara Cahill . 1914-01-22 . Women are More Frugal than Men . 6 . The Mayetta Herald . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
  32. Deegan . Mary Jo . March 2006 . The Human Drama Behind the Study of People as Potato Bugs: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park . Journal of Classical Sociology . en . 6 . 1 . 101–122 . 10.1177/1468795X06061288 . 143664019 . 1468-795X.
  33. News: 1894-06-12 . The Park-Cahill Wedding . 2 . Detroit Free Press . 2023-02-28 . Newspapers.com.
  34. News: 1944-02-08 . Robert E. Park . 12 . Freeport Journal-Standard . 2023-02-28 . Newspapers.com.

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