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Emilie Bigelow Hapgood

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Emilie Bigelow Hapgood
Emilie Bigelow Hapgood
Born1868
Chicago, United States
DiedFebruary 15, 1930 (aged 61–62)
Rome, Italy
Known forCircle For Negro War Relief
Spouse
(m. 1896; div. 1915)

Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (1868 in Chicago[1]-February 15, 1930, in Rome)[2] was a theatrical producer in New York City, and was at one time the president of the Stage Society.[3][4] She founded the Circle For Negro War Relief in November 1917 during World War I, and led it for some time.[3][4] She herself was white.[5] She married Norman Hapgood in 1896; they were divorced in 1915.[4] Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote a poem titled "TO EMILIE BIGELOW HAPGOOD - PHILANTHROPIST", which Johnson included in Bronze: A Book of Verse, published in 1922.[6][7]

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  1. ^ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, published 2013 by University of California Press; editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet E. Smith; associate editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz and Leslie Diane Myrick; p. 509, "Explanatory notes: AD 7 June 1906"; 101.31: "Mrs. Hapgood's luncheon: Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (1868-1930), a family friend, was the daughter of a Chicago banker"
  2. ^ EMILIE HAPGOOD DIES OF A STROKE; Former New York Producer and Designer Succumbs in Rome, Italy. HAD HEADED STAGE SOCIETY Induced Granville Barker to Bring His Productions Here--Ex-Wife of Norman Hapgood., in the New York Times; published February 17, 1930
  3. ^ a b Theodore Roosevelt (22 April 2014). Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 361–. ISBN 978-0-345-80612-3.
  4. ^ a b c "Mrs. Emilie Bigelow Hapgood Dies in Rome". Schenectady Gazette. Schenectady, New York. February 17, 1930. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Nikki Brown (28 December 2006). Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal. Indiana University Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 0-253-11239-7.
  6. ^ Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1922). Bronze: A Book of Verse. B. J. Brimmer Company. pp. 96–.
  7. ^ Maureen Honey (2006). Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Rutgers University Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-8135-3886-0.