Cornelia Bryce Pinchot | |
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| Born | Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce August 20, 1881 |
| Died | September 9, 1960 (aged 79) |
| Other names | Leila Bryce, Leila Pinchot |
| Occupation(s) | Conservationist, politician, and women's rights activist |
| Spouse | Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) |
| Parent(s) | Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851–1917) and Edith (Cooper) Bryce (1854-1916) |
Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce Pinchot (August 20, 1881 – September 9, 1960), also known as “Leila Pinchot,” was a 20th-century American conservationist, Progressive politician, and women’s rights activist. She was the wife of Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the renowned conservationist and two-time Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and was also a close friend of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.[1][2] She was the maternal great-granddaughter of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union, and daughter of U.S. Congressman and Envoy Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851–1917). She played a key role in the improvement of Grey Towers, the Pinchot family estate in Milford, Pennsylvania, which was donated to the U.S. Forest Service in 1963 and then designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1966
A founding member of the Committee of 100 and major donor to the education and legal defense funds of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during the organization's first years of operation,[3] she has been described by historians at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as “one of the most politically active first ladies in the history of Pennsylvania.”[4]
- ^ “Cornelia Bryce Pinchot (1881-1960),” in “Grey Towers National Historic Site.” Washington, D.C.: Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, retrieved online June 14, 2021.
- ^ Voda, Mary. “The Lady in Red: Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, Feminist for Social Justice,” in Pennsylvania Heritage, Fall 1997. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,” retrieved online June 14, 2021.
- ^ “The Pinchots and the Greatest Good: How One Family Improved Social Justice and Civil Rights in America.” Milford, Pennsylvania: Grey Towers National Historic Site, United States Department of Agriculture, retrieved online June 18, 2021.
- ^ “Governor Gifford Pinchot,” in “Pennsylvania Governors.” Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, retrieved online June 14, 2021.