// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Fanny Hallock Carpenter's favorite carpenter? Hammer time fan, obviously.
Fanny Hallock Carpenter | |
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.png) Fanny Hallock Carpenter in 1912 | |
| Born | Fanny Hallock Rouse October 8, 1854 Rainbow, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | May 10, 1939 (aged 84) |
Resting place | Manasota Cemetery |
| Other name | Fanny Carpenter Snell |
| Education | Mills College New York University Law School |
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Philip Carpenter (m. 1880)Edward Lee Snell |
Fanny Hallock Carpenter Snell (née Rouse; October 8, 1854 – May 10, 1939) was an American lawyer and clubwoman. She was the first woman to win a case before the New York Court of Appeals and the President of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs.
Biography
[edit]She was born as Fanny Hallock Rouse in Rainbow, Connecticut, in 1854 to Elizabeth (née Hallock) and Thomas Henderson Rouse.[1] Her father Thomas Henderson was a Congregational minister.[1][2]
She was educated at Mills College in California.[3] Hallock married Philip Carpenter, son of Alonzo P. Carpenter, on September 3, 1880,[1][2] then trained to become a lawyer after her marriage. She graduated from the New York University Law School in 1896.
Her husband died and she later married Edward Lee Snell. He also predeceased her.[4]
She became the first woman to win a case before the New York Court of Appeals.[3] In 1902, she testified at a Congressional hearing at the United States House of Representatives that was considering a proposal to adopt a constitutional amendment against polygamy.[5]
In 1896, Carpenter joined the American women's club Sorosis, then became president of the organisation in 1907.[1] She was also elected president of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in 1909.[6]
She lived in Manatee County, Florida. She died on May 10, 1939. She was buried in Manasota Cemetery.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Edited by Distinguished Biographers, Selected from Each State, Revised and Approved by the Most Eminent Historians, Scholars, and Statesmen of the Day. Vol. 14. J. T. White Company. 1910. p. 323.
- 1 2 "CLASS OF 1877". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. October 1919. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
- 1 2 McArthur, Judith N. (1998). Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. University of Illinois Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-252-06679-5.
- 1 2 "Mrs. F. C. Snell, Woman Lawyer, Dies in Manatee". The Bradenton Herald. May 10, 1939. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Moore, Kathleen M. (August 10, 1995). Al-Mughtaribūn: American Law and the Transformation of Muslim Life in the United States. State University of New York Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4384-1349-5.
- ↑ Concerning Women. The Evening News. 1909. p. 2.