Paula Laddey Explained

Paula Laddey
Birth Date:May 1, 1879
Birth Place:Mannheim, Germany
Death Date:August 2, 1966
Death Place:Nogales, Arizona
Occupation:Lawyer, clubwoman

Paula Laddey (May 1, 1879 – August 2, 1966) was a German-born American lawyer.

Early life and education

Laddey was born in Mannheim,[1] the daughter of Clara Schlee Laddey and Victor H. G. Laddey.[2] Her mother was a lecturer, and president of the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Association from 1908 to 1912.[3] [4] She moved to the United States with her family as a child in 1888. She graduated from New York University in 1906, and earned a law degree from Newark Law School in 1911.[5] [6]

Career

Law and clubwork

From 1908 to 1913, Laddey was a probation officer in Newark.[7] [8] In 1913 she was admitted to the practice of law in New Jersey. In time she was also admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. She represented the New Jersey Legal Aid Society at a national conference in 1916,[9] and in 1919 served on a committee of the National Conference of Social Work.[10] She wrote about workers' compensation laws for the Women Lawyers' Journal.[11] She also spoke in favor of women serving on juries.[12] [13] In 1924 she spoke before a United States Senate subcommittee on the Permanent Court of International Justice.[14]

Laddey served on the board of trustees for the State Home for Girls in Newark.[15] [16] In 1914 she reported on the Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, Delinquent, and Dependent Children, held that year in Memphis.[17] In 1919 she was a founding member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, and served as the organization's first treasurer.[18]

In 1936[19] and 1937,[20] Laddey gave a series of lectures on women's rights, for the League of Women Voters[21] and the Woman's Club of Upper Montclair.[22] [23] She spoke at a Montclair church in 1941, on the subject "Why Women Should Make Wills".[24] She spoke on the same subject in Vermont in 1952.[25]

With Beatrice Henry

Laddey had a longtime law practice in New Jersey, in partnership with suffragist Vernona Beatrice Henry.[26] [27] In 1916, Laddey and Henry were both on the pageant auxiliary committee for the 250th anniversary of the City of Newark.[28] Both women were active in the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri, hosting meetings of the Italian cultural interest group in their home.[29] In 1953, the two and a third woman, Katharine Smith, incorporated a firm called Heel-ins, to manufacture shoe components in St. Albans, Vermont.[30] Laddey and Henry also ran the North Country Press together.

Personal life

Paula Laddey and Beatrice Henry were law partners, and they shared a home in St. Albans Bay, Vermont,[31] [32] with their friend and colleague, Katharine Smith.[33] Henry died in 1954; Paula Laddey moved to Nogales, Arizona to live near her nephew David Laddey, and died there in 1966, aged 87 years.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 1966-08-05. Miss Paula Laddey. 19. The Burlington Free Press. 2020-06-21. Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: Perlin. Sandy. Biographical Sketch of Clara Schlee Laddey. 2020-06-22. Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1898-1920, Alexander Street.
  3. Book: Leonard, John William. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. 1914. American Commonwealth Company. 469. en.
  4. News: August 20, 1915. An Earnest Worker. 4. Irvington Gazette. June 21, 2020. Hudson River Valley Heritage.
  5. Web site: Paula Laddey. 2020-06-21. Women's Legal History Biography Project. en-US.
  6. News: 1911-10-12. Ambitious Young Woman. 5. The Drummond Messenger. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  7. Book: New Jersey State Conference of Social Work. Proceedings of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections. 1911. 114–116. en.
  8. News: 1923-06-09. Ambition to Teach Ultimately Led Woman to Practice of Law. 22. The Indianapolis News. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  9. Book: Batlan, Felice. Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945. 2015-04-16. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-316-03371-5. 127, note 13. en.
  10. Book: National Conference of Social Work (U S.). Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work. 1919. The Conference. 785. en.
  11. Laddey. Paula. January 1922. Workmen's Compensation Laws. Women Lawyers' Journal. 11. 9.
  12. News: 1922-08-10. Need Women on Juries. 10. The Kansas City Star. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1937-05-25. Speaker Stresses Duties of Women. 7. The Montclair Times. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  14. Book: United States Congress Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Permanent Court of International Justice: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session... April 30 and May 1, 1924. 1924. U.S. Government Printing Office. 144. en.
  15. Book: Proceedings of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction: ... Annual Meeting. 1915. New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction. 91. en.
  16. News: March 12, 1917. Miss Laddey to Give Talk Here. 10. Trenton Evening Times. June 21, 2020. NewspaperArchive.com.
  17. Laddey. Paula. May 30, 1914. The Children's Conference. The Survey. 32. 245.
  18. https://books.google.com/books?id=zBFAAQAAMAAJ&q=Laddey&pg=PT15 "An Organization of Builders"
  19. News: 1936-12-02. New Jersey Laws Allow Wife to Riflee Her Husband's Pockets. 22. The Windsor Star. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 1937-10-26. Happenings at the Woman's Club of Upper Montclair. 10. The Montclair Times. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  21. News: 1936-03-04. Miss Paula Laddy Will Address Women Voters League on Friday. 4. The Courier-News. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  22. News: 1936-11-08. LAWYER TO LECTURE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS; Miss Paula Laddey of Newark to Speak in Study Series at Upper Montclair.. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-06-21. 0362-4331.
  23. News: 1936-03-07. Legal Status of Married Women in New Jersey is Outlined to League. 12. The Courier-News. 2020-06-21. Newspapers.com.
  24. News: 1941-10-31. Miss Paula Laddey to Speak at St. John's Church. 12. The Montclair Times. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  25. News: 1952-05-07. Paula Laddey Addresses 150. 1. St. Albans Daily Messenger. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  26. Web site: Brow. Kelsey. Hendrickson. Lisa. Biographical Sketch of Vernona R. Henry. 2020-06-22. Alexander Street, Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920.
  27. News: 1941-04-08. Women Lawyers Open Office in Church Street. 2. The Montclair Times. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  28. Book: Stevens, Thomas Wood. Book of Words: The Pageant of Newark. 1916. Committee of one hundred. 104. en.
  29. News: 1940-03-26. Dante Alighieri to Meet at Paula Laddey's Home. 5. The Montclair Times. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  30. News: 1953-01-03. Burlington, St. A. Firms Incorporate. 13. The Burlington Free Press. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  31. News: Ferry. Stu. 1952-09-16. Inside St. Albans. 2. St. Albans Daily Messenger. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  32. News: 1941-04-08. Women Lawyers Open Office in Church Street. 2. The Montclair Times. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.
  33. News: 1961-06-12. Order of Publication. 3. St. Albans Daily Messenger. 2020-06-22. Newspapers.com.

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