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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries . L.R. Hamersly . 1909 . 1290 . en . 1327772651 . Google Books.
  2. Book: Deegan, Mary Jo . Diverse Histories of American Sociology . . 2005 . 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 . 228167991 . https://books.google.com/books?id=DIZSEAAAQBAJ&dq=Clara%20Cahill%20Park&pg=PA21 . Google Books.
  3. Book: Deegan, Mary Jo . Anthem Press . 2017 . 978-1-78308-656-6 . Kivisto . Peter . en . A Twisted Path: Park, Gender, and Praxis . 988772289 . https://books.google.com/books?id=kE5GDwAAQBAJ&dq=Clara%20Cahill%20Park&pg=PT42 . Google Books.
  4. Book: Skocpol, Theda . Protecting Soldiers and Mothers . . 2009 . 978-0-674-04372-5 . 548 . en . 1041148824 . Google Books.
  5. Book: Selected Articles on Mothers' Pensions . . 1915 . 137–139 . en . 671514124 . Google Books.
  6. Book: Gustafson, Melanie . Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 . . 2001 . 978-0-252-09323-4 . 224, note 111 . en . 1191456403 . Google Books.
  7. Baker . Ray Stannard . March 1913 . Mrs. Clara Cahill Park . . 75 . 5 . 33, 35 . Google Books.
  8. News: 30 July 1913 . For Relief of Mothers; Question Discussed at Meeting of School of Eugenics . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240916030818/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-for-relief-of-mothers/119825366/ . 16 September 2024 . 27 February 2023 . . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  9. Book: Municipal Research: To Promote the Application of Scientific Principles to Government . 1917 . Bureau of Municipal Research . 12–15 . en . 1758840 . Google Books.
  10. News: 28 April 1912 . What is the Essential Purpose of Marriage? . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240916031522/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-what-is-the-essential-p/119836684/ . 16 September 2024 . 27 February 2023 . . 46 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 21 September 1913 . For What Business Enterprises are Women Best Adapted? . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230227204409/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119837689/for-what-business-enterprises-are-women/ . 27 February 2023 . 27 February 2023 . . 46 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Book: Murray, Stephen O. . Histories of Anthropology Annual . . 2006 . 978-0-8032-6657-5 . Darnell . Regna . 65–66 . en . American Anthropologists Discover Peasants . 62714623 . Gleach . Frederic W. . https://books.google.com/books?id=weYjg9E5nuYC&dq=Clara%20Cahill%20Park&pg=PA65 . Google Books.
  13. News: 3 February 1934 . Noted Artist Tells Club India is Decadent as Africa Emerges . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230227180427/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119825148/noted-artist-tells-club-india-is/ . 27 February 2023 . 27 February 2023 . . 7 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 11 June 1932 . Clara Cahill Park's Pastels Are Shown . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230227174624/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119823324/clara-cahill-parks-pastels-are-shown/ . 27 February 2023 . 27 February 2023 . . 28 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 12 December 1935 . Art Exhibit Opens Today at Woman's Club . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240916033128/https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-art-exhibit-opens-today/119823508/ . 16 September 2024 . 27 February 2023 . . 7 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 19 June 1932 . Buck Portrait is Feature of Art Exhibit . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240916033332/https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-buck-portrait-i/119823780/ . 16 September 2024 . 27 February 2023 . . 26 . Newspapers.com.
  17. Web site: Theodosia Breed . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230227204739/https://illinoiswomenartists.org/author/theodosia-breed/ . 27 February 2023 . 27 February 2023 . Illinois Women Artists Project . en-US.
  18. News: 13 May 1949 . Three Generations in Family Exhibit their Paintings . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240916033654/https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-three-generations-in-fam/119837420/ . 16 September 2024 . 27 February 2023 . . 25 . Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}.

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