Bertha Howell Mailly
Bertha Howell Mailly | |
|---|---|
 Mailly, from a 1912 publication | |
| Born | February 2, 1869 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 1960 (aged 91) Laguna Beach, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | Educator, camp director, suffragist, journalist, politician |
| Spouse | William Mailly |
Bertha Howell Mailly (February 2, 1869 – August 14, 1960) was an American educator, journalist, suffragist, and politician. She was executive secretary of the Rand School of Social Science in New York City from 1909 to 1937, and director of the Tamiment summer resort in the Pocono Mountains from 1921 to 1947. She was married to Socialist Party of America leader William Mailly from 1898 until his death in 1912.
Early life and education
[edit]Howell was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of John Cunningham Howell and Jeannette "Jennie" Bryden Williamson Howell.[1] She graduated from Cornell University in 1894. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She pursued further studies during a year in Florence.[2]
Career
[edit]Mailly traveled to Colorado in 1904 to report on striking miners there.[3] She was a librarian at the New York Public Library in 1907.[2] She was active in the women's suffrage movement, and in the Women's Trade Union League in New York.[4] She was one of the WTUL activists sued in 1910, after a shirtwaist makers' strike.[5][6]
Mailly was executive secretary of the Rand School of Social Science in New York City from 1909 to 1937.[7][8] In 1914, she was a Socialist Party delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention. She was the unsuccessful Socialist Party candidate for New York State Senate in 1917, and for the New York State Assembly in 1919.[9] In 1919 she was ejected from a state legislative committee hearing for refusing to testify.[10] She was a member of the national executive committee of the Socialist Party of America in 1920.[2][11] In 1921 she founded Tamiment, a mountain resort in Pike County, Pennsylvania, to raise funds for the Rand School. She was Tamiment's director until she retired in 1947.[2] A meeting hall at Tamiment was named for her.[12]
Publications
[edit]Personal life
[edit]Howell married socialist leader and writer William Mailly in 1898. He died from cancer in 1912, and she died in 1960, at the age of 91, in Laguna Beach, California.[2][15]
References
[edit]- ↑ Birthdate, parents' names, from the 1880 United States census and Maily's 1923 application for a United States passport, via Ancestry.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Bertha H. Mailly, Socialist, was 91, Socialist, Was 91; National Committee Member in '20 Dies; Secretary of Rand School, 1909-37". The New York Times. 1960-08-16. p. 29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- 1 2 Mailly, Bertha H. "In the Strike Region" American Labor Union Journal 2(17)(January 28, 1904).
- ↑ "New York". Life and Labor. 5 (10): 159. October 1915.
- ↑ "Sued for Strike Losses". The Review: 29–31. August 1910.
- ↑ "Labor News Analysis: Strike Sympathizers Sued". Our Journal. 19 (7): 20. July 1910.
- ↑ "The Rand School of Social Science". The International Steam Engineer: 396–397. June 15, 1916.
- ↑ "Education for Classes Only? Nonsense! Here's a Workingmen's College". New-York Tribune. 1912-11-03. p. 20. Retrieved 2026-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Bertha Howell Mailly". Her Hat Was In The Ring. Retrieved 2026-09-17.
- ↑ "Eject Woman from Sedition Hearing in N.Y.; Bertha Mailly Refuses to Testify Concerning Alleged Activ". Harrisburg Telegraph. 1919-07-09. p. 11. Retrieved 2026-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Socialists Uphold Internationale; Referendum Indorses Moscow Program with Reservations, but Against Dictatorship". The New York Times. August 22, 1920. p. 3. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ "Discuss True Democracy; League Dedicates Hall in Memory of Mrs. Bertha Mailly". The New York Times. June 26, 1922. p. 12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
- ↑ Mailly, Bertha H. "From Birth to Death" American Labor Union Journal 2(19)(February 11, 1904).
- ↑ Mailly, Bertha H. "The Coal Miners' Strike in Colorado", The Comrade 3(6)(March 1904).
- ↑ "Bertha Mailly". The Register. 1960-08-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
[edit]- Bertha Howell Mailly at the Jane Addams Digital Edition
- The William Mailly Papers at NYU Special Collections
