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Marjorie Wilson Corrigan papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3739

Scope and content

Student scrapbook, 1909-1913; photographs; articles, primarily from the Cleveland Sunday News-Leader. Miscellaneous clippings and biographical information relating to Marjorie Wilson Corrigan, list of her articles, obituary and memorial statements. Also, reminiscences of member of the Class of 1913, Women, n.d.

Dates

  • 1913-2001.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Journalist. Marjorie Wilson Corrigan was the granddaughter of suffragette Anna Parnell Howard. As a student, she worked as an intern at the Ithaca Journal, and, after graduating from Cornell in 1913, she joined the staff of the Cleveland Leader. She reported on and championed the campaign leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment, and covered the 1920 Presidential campaign. She continued to report on a variety of issues, and her features were syndicated by Thompson Feature Service. She married Cleveland attorney William J. Corrigan, whom she met while covering a sensational murder trial in 1921. They had four children. In 2001, she was posthumously inducted into the Press Club of Cleveland's Journalism Hall of Fame. Cornell University Class of 1913.

Extent

.9 cubic feet. (.9 cubic feet.)

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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