May Ashmore Thropp Hill papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2781

Scope and content

Correspondence, political pamphlets, bills and notes; campaign, legislative and community memorabilia and clippings, 1924-1928, n.d.; letters written by William H. Hill, May Thropp Hill's husband; photographs and certificates. Also includes Hill's senior scrapbook of the State Model School, Trenton, New Jersey, 1916; Cornell memorabilia; passports, 1956, 1961; certificate of appointment to the New Jersey Bar; petition nominating candidate for public office; and budget messages from the New Jersey governor, 1927 and 1928.

Dates

[ca. 1916]-1964
-1920-1929 (bulk)

Creator

Hill, May Ashmore Thropp, 1899-1967. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

May Ashmore Thropp Hill (Cornell University Class of 1920, LL.B. 1922) was an attorney and a New Jersey Assemblywoman from Mercer County. She served three terms in the assembly, from 1924-1927, during which she was a member of the Joint Appropriations Committee and a commission investigating women's working conditions in New Jersey. She was involved with the Child Labor Amendment, the Birth Control Bill, and the founding of Washington Crossing, New Jersey, Memorial Park.