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283:. Before her death in 1894, she inculcated her daughters, especially Katharine as the eldest, with the importance of a college education. In her will, Caroline Houghton did not name a legal guardian for her daughters, preferring that they be independent to pursue their own aspirations. After her death, the girls' education remained a point of contention between the sisters and their uncle, Amory Houghton Jr. (1837–1909), the family patriarch and president of Corning Glass. While Amory believed young women belonged in 2734: 538: 2722: 1489: 31: 449:
could be vitriolic enough to cause her friends to suggest she take the newspaper to court for calumny. At times, bricks or rocks were thrown through the windows of the Hepburn house. Nevertheless, Hepburn remained active in reform movements for the rest of her life, especially in the branches of
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In 2006, her alma mater Bryn Mawr opened the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center in honor of Hepburn and her daughter, actress Katharine Hepburn, who graduated in 1928. The Center "inspires Bryn Mawr students and graduates to make a meaningful impact on the world."
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Hepburn became interested in the suffrage movement and consequently co-founded the Hartford Equal Franchise League in 1909. The following year, this organization was absorbed into the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association and became a branch of the
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In her long public career she had learned great efficiency and she never let our witnesses run over their time. Just as we were swinging along briskly she invariably tugged at a coat and passed over a little slip – 'time up in one
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During the early 1930s, Hepburn home-schooled her two younger daughters, Marion and Margaret. Marion considered her mother "a natural-born teacher" who was "never happier than when introducing us children to some new book or idea."
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interview, Paul recalled Hepburn as "the unquestioned leader of the suffragists . . . in Connecticut." She was elected to serve as legislative chairman of the organization's National Executive Committee.
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as suspicious. The HUAC report reads "the overwhelming preponderance of fellow travelers on the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism is convincing proof of Communist infiltration."
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to rally on behalf of a bill which would allow doctors to disseminate contraceptive information. Among those speaking against birth control was popular Catholic radio priest
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to "seek some expression of the President of his attitude on the woman suffrage question." Earlier that year, Hepburn had played host to famed British suffragette,
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which provides emergency funding for the cause of reproductive rights. The regional Southern New England chapter of Planned Parenthood also sponsors a fund, the
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Despite consistent opposition from the Houghton family, she was able to realize the promise she had made to her mother; Katharine Houghton graduated from
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in chemistry and physics the following year, although biographer Barbara Leaming claims Houghton's degree was in art history. She then briefly attended
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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings Before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Part 9, Vol.2
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afterward published an article noting the success of the Hepburn/Sanger birth control propaganda in yielding favorable local results for its cause.
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LIFE Magazine, January 22, 1940, "The Hepburns: Seven members of a fabulous Hartford family express themselves at any cost", Jensen, Oliver
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glass works. She was named in part after her maternal grandmother, Martha Ann Spaulding Garlinghouse. Katharine had two younger sisters,
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organizer. Sanger, a New York native, remembered Hepburn as "the Kathy Houghton of my Corning childhood." Together they founded the
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Robert Hepburn as quoted in Mann, p. 52. "Mother was thrilled when Lenin took over Russia. She essentially became a communist."
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One early HUAC citation, from 1939, names Hepburn as one of "the overwhelming preponderance of fellow travelers" composing the
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Andersen, Christopher, Young Kate: The Remarkable Hepburns and the Childhood that Shaped a Legend, Henry Holt & Co, 1988
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As president of the CWSA, Hepburn represented the state of Connecticut as part of a 1913 deputation that met with President
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Communist Methods of Infiltration: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, p. 3664, Oxnam Exhibit No. 18
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Investigation of Un-American Activities and Propaganda Report of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, p. 1172
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In 1917, she resigned as CWSA president, declaring the Association to be "old-fashioned and supine." She instead joined
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In 1994, Hepburn was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame and included in the field of "Reformers."
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Having concluded her suffrage work, Hepburn allied herself with birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, a
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In May 1944, a HUAC reports Hepburn as one of "11 prominent American leaders" whose membership on the
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Good Housekeeping, Sept. 1986, "Dad was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist. Mother was a communist."
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but did not. Yet records show that Congressional House Committees on Un-American Activities (
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before marrying Hepburn on June 6, 1904. Following their marriage, the Hepburns moved to
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as communistic, and the House Committee eventually rejected the bill. Despite the defeat,
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While one biographer of the activist's daughter claims Hepburn almost joined the
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Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment
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When not in Buffalo, she and her family spent time at their property in the
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Throughout her career, Hepburn gave numerous speeches in cities around the
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
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Marion Hepburn Grant as quoted in Grant, p. 122 sq. "My Marxist mother…"
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Margaret Houghton "Peg" Hepburn Perry (1920–2006), librarian and farmer
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Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California. p. 322
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In 1988, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America established the
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In 1948, Hepburn was identified in a HUAC report as a sponsor of the
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Garlinghouse) and Alfred Augustus Houghton, a member of the
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In July 1953, two years after Hepburn's death, progressive
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National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control
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Katharine Martha Houghton was born on February 2, 1878, in
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in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the
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Dr. Robert Houghton "Bob" Hepburn (1913–2007), urologist
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Richard Houghton "Dick" Hepburn (1911–2000), playwright
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The League would eventually evolve into 309:. After completing preparatory studies at 257:Houghton family, Caroline and Alfred were 29: 885: 677:Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 585:Thomas Houghton "Tom" Hepburn (1905–1921) 376: 340: 316: 1004:, p. 202. Simon and Schuster, New York. 835: 536: 397:. Hepburn was elected chair of Sanger's 1075: 786: 2770:People from West Hartford, Connecticut 2747: 192:Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association 2484: 2191: 1934: 1540: 1502: 1409:"Corning Incorporated - Our Heritage" 1363: 1359: 1357: 1078:Katharine Hepburn: a Remarkable Woman 793:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p.  769:, p. 54. 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Buffalo, New York
West Hartford, Connecticut
Radcliffe College
Bryn Mawr College
Activist
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Houghton family
feminist
suffrage movement
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman's Party
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton
Buffalo, New York
née
Houghton family
Corning Incorporated
Edith
Athol Springs
Hamburg, New York
Corning, New York
conservative
Episcopal
progressive
freethinkers
agnostic
Robert G. Ingersoll
suicide

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