Katrina Ely Tiffany

Katrina Brandes Ely Tiffany (March 25, 1875 – March 11, 1927) was an American suffragist and philanthropist, from a prominent Philadelphia family.

Katrina Ely Tiffany
Katrina Ely Tiffany, carrying the American flag in a suffrage parade in New York City, 1917
Born
Katrina Brandes Ely

(1875-03-25)March 25, 1875
Altoona, Pennsylvania
DiedMarch 11, 1927(1927-03-11) (aged 51)
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College
Known forsuffrage leadership, philanthropy
Spouse(s)
Charles Louis Tiffany II
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(m. 1901)​
Parent(s)Theodore N. Ely
RelativesGertrude Sumner Ely (sister), Louis Comfort Tiffany (father-in-law)

Early life

Katrina Brandes Ely was born March 25, 1875, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Theodore N. Ely and Henrietta van Siden Brandes Ely.[1] Her father was vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. She attended the Baldwin School, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1897.[2][3]

Her sister Gertrude Sumner Ely was a noted philanthropist, who was twice awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery in World War I.[4]

Career

Despite her husband's opposition to suffrage work, Katrina Ely Tiffany was president of the New York Collegiate Equal Franchise League,[5] and an officer of the Woman Suffrage Party of New York, and was a regular speaker at the Glen Cove Equal Suffrage Club near her summer home on Long Island.[2] In 1916 she was in the "cordon of honor" at the Atlantic City Suffrage Convention, welcoming President Wilson to the event.[6] She led a 1917 suffrage parade in New York City, carrying a large American flag.[7] After suffrage was won, she was active in the League of Women Voters, campaigned for James W. Wadsworth, and advocated for the League of Nations.[8] In 1920 she wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar titled "Women of To-Morrow Need the College of To-Day".[9]

Tiffany chaired the War Service Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA),[10] and organized knitted donations for sailors, as chair of the 27th Assembly District's Navy Comforts Unit.[11]

Tiffany served on the executive committees of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children[12] and the Sunnyside Day Nursery.[1] She spent a term as president of the Bryn Mawr College alumnae association, and of the Bryn Mawr Club of New York City.[13]

Personal life

Katrina Ely married Charles Louis Tiffany II (1878–1947), son of Louis Comfort Tiffany, in 1901.[14] They lived in New York City, and summered in Oyster Bay Cove on Long Island.[2] She died from pneumonia on March 11, 1927, aged 51 years, in New York City.[15][4] Carrie Chapman Catt and Charles P. Howland spoke at memorial service for Tiffany in New York. "The life of Katrina Ely Tiffany was the best example I know of what a good citizen should be," Catt declared. "She left the world better than she found it."[16] She left the bulk of her estate to her sisters and to the Bryn Mawr College alumnae association.[13]

References
  1. Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915. American Commonwealth Company. pp. 817. Katrina Ely Tiffany.
  2. Petrash, Antonia (2013-06-25). Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781614239642.
  3. College, Bryn Mawr (1905). Program. p. 165. Katrina Brandes Ely.
  4. "Gertrude S. Ely, Heroine of 1918". The New York Times. 1970-10-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  5. Goodier, Susan; Pastorello, Karen (2017-09-15). Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501713194.
  6. Blair, Emily Newell; Laas, Virginia Jeans (1999). Bridging Two Eras: The Autobiography of Emily Newell Blair, 1877–1951. University of Missouri Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780826260925.
  7. Neuman, Johanna (2017-09-05). Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote. NYU Press. p. 123. ISBN 9781479837069.
  8. "Mrs. C. L. Tiffany, Civic Worker, Dead; One-Time Noted Suffragette Succumbs to Pneumonia After a Week's Illness". The New York Times. March 12, 1927. p. 15 – via ProQuest.
  9. Tiffany, Katrina Ely (March 1920). "Women of To-Morrow Need the College of To-Day". Harper's Bazaar. 55: 51, 132 – via ProQuest.
  10. Lemay, Kate Clarke; Goodier, Susan; Tetrault, Lisa; Jones, Martha (2019-03-26). Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. Princeton University Press. pp. 74–75. ISBN 9780691191171.
  11. Tiffany, Katrina Ely (July 29, 1917). "Women Invited to Knit". The New York Times. p. 68 – via ProQuest.
  12. New York Infirmary for Women and Children (1909). Annual Report. New York. p. 8.
  13. "Mrs. Tiffany Leaves Estate to Bryn Mawr". The New York Times. March 31, 1927. p. 25 – via ProQuest.
  14. Yale University Class of 1900 (1905). Triennial Record. p. 80.
  15. "Mrs. Katrina Ely Tiffany". Harrisburg Telegraph. March 14, 1927. p. 9. Retrieved September 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Mrs. Tiffany Honored at Memorial Service". The New York Times. April 21, 1927. p. 27 – via ProQuest.
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