Edith Houghton Hooker

Edith Houghton Hooker
At Bryn Mawr College in 1901
Born
Edith Houghton

(1879-12-29)December 29, 1879
DiedOctober 23, 1948(1948-10-23) (aged 68)
Education
Occupations
SpouseDonald Hooker (m. 1905)
Children8
RelativesSee Houghton family
AwardsMaryland Women's Hall of Fame

Edith Houghton Hooker (December 29, 1879 – October 23, 1948)[1][2] was an American suffragist and social worker. She was a leader of the suffrage movement in Maryland in the early twentieth century and was posthumously inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. She was a maternal aunt of actress Katharine Hepburn.

  1. ^ Miyagawa, Sharon (2014). "Edith Houghton Hooker (1879–1948)". Maryland State Archives. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  2. ^ "Edith Houghton Hooker". Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. 2001. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved February 26, 2016.