Mary Lynde Craig | |
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| Born | Mary Delano Catherine Lynde March 24, 1834 Vermont, U.S. |
| Died | June 20, 1921 (aged 87) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
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Samuel Foster (m. 1862)Scipio Craig (m. 1892) |
Mary Lynde Craig (née, Lynde; after first marriage, Foster; after second marriage, Hoffman; after third marriage, Craig; March 24, 1834 – June 20, 1921) was an American writer, teacher, and attorney. She moved to California in 1859. She owned property in San Francisco, and was an activist for women's property rights.[1] Craig served as Associate Editor of the Redlands, California The Citrograph. In 1893, she was one of four women practicing law in California. In 1891, she gave the "Address of Weicome" at the organization of Sequoia Chapter, San Francisco. While attending the National Editorial Association at Chicago with her husband, in May 1893, she also had opportunity to speak to other large audiences—once at the Auditorium, once at the Art Palace, and once at the Woman's Building.[2][3] She served as president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association and historian of the Hastings Law column.
- ^ Simpson 2004, p. 27.
- ^ Simpson 2004, p. 188.
- ^ Collector Publishing Company 1893, p. 239-40.