Ellen Cheney Johnson

Ellen Cheney Johnson
An older white woman with white hair fastened on top of her head and a short curly fringe. She is wearing a dark lace dress with a high collar, and a brooch fastened at her throat.
Ellen Cheney Johnson, from a 1900 publication
Born
Ellen Cheney

(1829-12-20)December 20, 1829
Athol, Massachusetts
DiedJune 28, 1899(1899-06-28) (aged 69)
London, England
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Ellen Cheney Johnson (December 20, 1829 – June 28, 1899) was an American prison reformer. She founded the New England Women's Auxiliary Association to the United States Sanitary Commission, worked with homeless and vagrant women after the Civil War through the Dedham Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners, and served as superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women at Framingham.[1]

  1. ^ Freedman, Estelle (1974). "Their Sisters' Keepers: An Historical Perspective on Female Correctional Institutions in the United States: 1870–1900". Feminist Studies. 2 (1): 77–91. doi:10.2307/3177698. hdl:2027/spo.0499697.0002.105. JSTOR 3177698.