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Dorothy Hamilton Brush
Dorothy Hamilton Brush (March 14, 1894 – June 4, 1968) was a birth control advocate, women's rights advocate and author. She worked with Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement and wrote plays, travel articles, and books (the latter with Walter S. Hayward.)
Dorothy Hamilton Brush was born to Walter James Hamilton and Mary Jane Adams on March 14, 1894. She had two sisters, Gladys and Margaret, the latter of whom went on to become an actress most famous for portraying the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where Brush would attend Hathaway Brown School.
Brush graduated form Smith College in 1917 where she served as a delegate in New York to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Silver Bay Camp. She also acted as a house president, a student advisor, and participated in clubs and societies, such as the Alpha Society, Il Tricolore, Blue Pencil, and the Debating Union. As she was on an editing staff, Brush would work on various college publications such as the Monthly Board, the Weekly Board, and the Class Book Board, and would also write short stories. During her junior year of college, Brush acted as class historians and wrote the "History of Junior Year" in the 1917 yearbook, as well as the words for the Ivy Song and for "Alma Mater."
From 1917 to 1919, Dorothy worked for various charities in Washington, D.C., and then in Sheffield, Alabama, as he first husband, Charles, served in the Ordinance Officers' Reserve Corp of the Army as a first lieutenant, after which the couple would travel around the world, even stopping in Honolulu, Hawaii, before returning to the United States and settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where Charles established the Brush Research Laboratory.
After volunteering in Cleveland in 1922 for the Junior League, Brush's experience from working in a prenatal clinic led to her advocacy of women's health and birth control. In 1928, following the death of her first husband, Charles, Brush, along with friends and supporters, assisted in establishing the Maternal Health Association, a project which they had been mapping out since 1921, and which became a predecessor for Planned Parenthood of Cleveland, which was established in 1966. In 1929, Brush's father-in-law, inventor Charles F. Brush, Sr., appointed Dorothy to the board of managers of his newly created Brush Foundation, which he had named in memory of Dorothy's late husband, who had died the year prior.
Although Brush continued her work at the Maternal Health Association, she became more involved with the Brush Foundation, where she would serve as an administrator, and later as a chairwoman, from 1957 to 1963. Today, the Brush Foundation is still active and had widened its mission further the research and education on various birth control issues.
Although Brush's work with Margaret Sanger became her primary focus, she would continue to write using her maiden name, Dorothy Adams Hamilton. Brush would co-write with Walter S. Hayward on the works of The American People: A Popular History of the United States, 1865-1941 (1943) and Your Land and My Land: The American People from Lincoln to Roosevelt (1943). Brush would also write children's plays for the Samuel French Company, which were published in the later 1920's, as well as travel articles for the World Traveller magazine. On top of her published works, Brush also wrote manuscripts on women of Japan, Margaret Sanger, as well as birth control and menopause, though they were not published.
After moving to New York in 1929, Dorothy Hamilton Brush would meet Margaret Sanger by volunteering at her clinic, and would eventually travel across Asia and Europe with her as a missionary for birth control and family planning. As a Smith College alumni, Brush was aware of the Sophia Smith Collection (SSC) and its efforts in collecting women's history, and how it viewed Sanger's work with great value. Brush reached out to Margaret Storrs Grierson, director of the SSC, with whom she would convince Sanger to donate the portions of her papers that hadn't already been given to the Library of Congress, to the SSC. Brush was also influential in Margaret Sanger receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Smith College in 1949 and led the effort to nominate her for a Nobel Prize.
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Dorothy Hamilton Brush
Dorothy Hamilton Brush (March 14, 1894 – June 4, 1968) was a birth control advocate, women's rights advocate and author. She worked with Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement and wrote plays, travel articles, and books (the latter with Walter S. Hayward.)
Dorothy Hamilton Brush was born to Walter James Hamilton and Mary Jane Adams on March 14, 1894. She had two sisters, Gladys and Margaret, the latter of whom went on to become an actress most famous for portraying the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where Brush would attend Hathaway Brown School.
Brush graduated form Smith College in 1917 where she served as a delegate in New York to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Silver Bay Camp. She also acted as a house president, a student advisor, and participated in clubs and societies, such as the Alpha Society, Il Tricolore, Blue Pencil, and the Debating Union. As she was on an editing staff, Brush would work on various college publications such as the Monthly Board, the Weekly Board, and the Class Book Board, and would also write short stories. During her junior year of college, Brush acted as class historians and wrote the "History of Junior Year" in the 1917 yearbook, as well as the words for the Ivy Song and for "Alma Mater."
From 1917 to 1919, Dorothy worked for various charities in Washington, D.C., and then in Sheffield, Alabama, as he first husband, Charles, served in the Ordinance Officers' Reserve Corp of the Army as a first lieutenant, after which the couple would travel around the world, even stopping in Honolulu, Hawaii, before returning to the United States and settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where Charles established the Brush Research Laboratory.
After volunteering in Cleveland in 1922 for the Junior League, Brush's experience from working in a prenatal clinic led to her advocacy of women's health and birth control. In 1928, following the death of her first husband, Charles, Brush, along with friends and supporters, assisted in establishing the Maternal Health Association, a project which they had been mapping out since 1921, and which became a predecessor for Planned Parenthood of Cleveland, which was established in 1966. In 1929, Brush's father-in-law, inventor Charles F. Brush, Sr., appointed Dorothy to the board of managers of his newly created Brush Foundation, which he had named in memory of Dorothy's late husband, who had died the year prior.
Although Brush continued her work at the Maternal Health Association, she became more involved with the Brush Foundation, where she would serve as an administrator, and later as a chairwoman, from 1957 to 1963. Today, the Brush Foundation is still active and had widened its mission further the research and education on various birth control issues.
Although Brush's work with Margaret Sanger became her primary focus, she would continue to write using her maiden name, Dorothy Adams Hamilton. Brush would co-write with Walter S. Hayward on the works of The American People: A Popular History of the United States, 1865-1941 (1943) and Your Land and My Land: The American People from Lincoln to Roosevelt (1943). Brush would also write children's plays for the Samuel French Company, which were published in the later 1920's, as well as travel articles for the World Traveller magazine. On top of her published works, Brush also wrote manuscripts on women of Japan, Margaret Sanger, as well as birth control and menopause, though they were not published.
After moving to New York in 1929, Dorothy Hamilton Brush would meet Margaret Sanger by volunteering at her clinic, and would eventually travel across Asia and Europe with her as a missionary for birth control and family planning. As a Smith College alumni, Brush was aware of the Sophia Smith Collection (SSC) and its efforts in collecting women's history, and how it viewed Sanger's work with great value. Brush reached out to Margaret Storrs Grierson, director of the SSC, with whom she would convince Sanger to donate the portions of her papers that hadn't already been given to the Library of Congress, to the SSC. Brush was also influential in Margaret Sanger receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Smith College in 1949 and led the effort to nominate her for a Nobel Prize.