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Florence Lathrop Field Page

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Florence Lathrop Field Page
Born
Folorence Lathrop

October 29, 1858
DiedJuly 6, 1921 (age 62)
Spouses
(m. 1878; died 1890)
(m. 1893)
Parent
RelativesBryan Lathrop (brother)
Barbour Lathrop (brother)
Daniel Bryan (grandfather)
Charles Page Bryan (cousin)[1]
Jennie Byrd Bryan Payne (cousin)[1]
Thomas Barbour Bryan (uncle)
James Barbour (great-uncle)
Philip P. Barbour (great-uncle)
Thomas Barbour (great-grandfather)
Marshall Field (brother-in-law)

Florence Lathrop Field Page (October 29, 1858 – July 6, 1921) was an American socialite and philanthropist. Born into the esteemed Barbour family, Page became a notable society figure and philanthropist. Page was considered a member of America's urban elite.[2] She was twice married, first to Henry Field (the brother of Marshall Field), and later to Thomas Nelson Page. In addition to being a member of the Barbour family by birth, through he second marriage she became a member of two additional noted Virginia families: the Nelson and Page families.

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Increasingly men went away to work outside the home, while women maintained the household and raised children. The rise of an economy characterized by more wage-paying jobs, as opposed to subsistence farming, contributed to this development. But moralists like Catharine Beecher had also argued that women possessed unique moral capacities that suited them to child-rearing and made them especially sensitive to the jolts and pre ssures of a rough-and-tumble world. \par In the Gilded Age many middle and upper class women seemed to revel in this status, and many working class women sought it. Publications like }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid1324809 Godey's Lady's Book and Harper's Weekly}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 idealized women's supposedly sensitive nature. While many women understood this ideology as a charge to stay home and raise children, others interpreted it as a call to political action. \par The struggle for woman's suf frage had emerged in the national spotlight in a small convention held in a Seneca Falls, NY church in 1848. There the gathered delegates drafted a call featuring twelve goals for women, including gaining the franchise. But the movement often languished i n the antebellum and Civil War years as the abolition of slavery moved to the forefront of reform efforts. \par In the war's aftermath, many suffrage seekers were disappointed when the Fifteen th Amendment specifically granted the vote to black men, while ignoring all women. The Whig and Republican parties had provided women with limited political roles, usually as symbols of morality and civilization, while Democrats largely barred them from p o litical life. But now the Republicans sidetracked suffragists' concerns in favor of African-Americans. The controversy essentially split the movement. Some women argued that the moment belonged to the African-Americans, and did not want to jeopardize the Amendment in Congress by tying it to controversial cause of woman suffrage. Others, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony rejected the bargain, and continued to push for woman suffrage. \par In 1869 Illinois reformers founded the Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, but failed to add women's vote to the 1870 state constitution. As another constitutional convention could not be called for two decades, activists began a push for c hanges in individual laws, yielding impressive gains in specific woman's rights. Reformers including Alta Hulett, Myra Colby Bradwell, and her husband Judge James secured passage of laws between 1860 and 1890 that included women's right to control their o w n earnings, to equal guardianship of children after divorce, to control and maintain property, to share in a deceased husband's estate and to enter into any occupation or profession. In 1873 Judge Bradwell helped to pass a new law which allowed women who met the qualifications to be eligible for any school office in Illinois created outside the state constitution. Although they could not vote, ten women were elected as County Superintendents of Schools in 1874. \par Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Tem perance Union brought the women's rights movement together with a powerful political ideology that asserted women's special role in politics. Many women believed that only their moral perspective could clean up the increasingly corrupt world of male polit ics. Many sought the vote as a means to this end. \par The WCTU concentrated their political efforts upon the scourge of alcohol consumption, which led so many men to mistreat their families. The temperance movement, long a staple of antebellum reform, emerged with new vigor among Midwestern women after the Panic of 1873, and the WCTU was formed in 1874. The organization framed its arguments in terms that used women's maternal role to mount a defense of the family, or what they called "Home Protection." WCTU wo men selected the white ribbon bow as a symbol of purity, and took up "Agitate - Educate - Legislate" as their call to action. \par The WCTU argued that only women's votes could push temperance legislation into law. On March 6 1877, Frances Willard became the fi rst woman ever to address an official session of the Illinois General Assembly. A WCTU delegation had delivered hundreds of Home Protection petitions calling for woman suffrage and temperance legislation, and Willard urged the legislators to heed her mate rnal advice and pass the measures. Although the men provided her with a largely polite reception, the bill never became law. \par But the organization did not end its efforts with the attack on strong drink. Led by Frances Willard of Evanston, the WCTU urged it s member to "do everything" for social reform. In 1889 the Chicago chapter of the WCTU operated a low-cost restaurant, a lodging house for men, a free medical dispensary, a mission shelter housing four thousand homeless women per year, an industrial schoo l , and two Sunday schools. But the WCTU's loose organization allowed local chapters to take up those issues they chose, while avoiding those without local support. Thus the organization grew without piling other offending doctrines atop its challenge to lo cal tipplers. \par The Woman's Christian Temperance Union claimed many small town and rural chapters. 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But the WCTU leadership, starting with Willard, remained largely prosperous, well-educated, native-born and Protestant, and never established entirely comfortable ties with African-Americans or immigrants. \par Immigrant women in Illinois and across the North struggled to find ways to stay at home wit h their families, in spite of the fact that many of these families struggled to make ends meet. Some immigrant women took in home work, such as pieces of clothing to be stitched or assembled for tailor shops or clothing manufacturers. Many took in boarder s as a convenient way to earn extra income without leaving home. Boarders usually came from their hosts' ethnic group, and often took up residence immediately following their immigration. But this task brought women the additional work of shopping for and feeding additional mouths, and often resulted in crowded apartments. \par The Knights of Labor provided women workers with a rare opportunity to join a labor organization, and their emphasis o n cooperation and negotiation appealed to many women. The Knights also provided many immigrant families with social activities as well as representation in the work place, organizing not only workers but also their families in social groups that hosted pi cnics, rallies and festivals. \par The African-American woman Lucy Parsons became a major figure in Chicago's labor movement and radical politics in the Gilded Age. She married a white man named Albert Parsons. Together they became two of the city's most promin ent radical social critics and organizers. Lucy Parsons was a renowned orator, and helped to organize the Chicago Working Women's Union. In 1891 she began publishing her own newspaper \endash "Freedom." \par Few women in Illinois cities went away to work early in Gilded Age, but more found jobs later in the period. Usually these were young women who went to work, enjoying a period of autonomy before marrying. Some found jobs as clerks and stenograph ers, but all found little upward mobility. Rural women often continued to find lives of almost ceaseless toil on the farm, though many struggled to take on the roles and forms of domestic ideology. Granges provided women with membership equal to men, as w ell as social opportunities. \par In the 1880s new women's clubs organized among the wives of the prosperous middle class. Many devoted themselves to the causes of social reform and charity. Many female reformers found that, while they could not vote, their sta tus as wives and mothers provided them with political capital valuable in the fight to provide better conditions for women and children. In Illinois, the Chicago Woman's Club became a leader in this movement, devoting special attention to the cause of pre v enting youthful offenders from becoming lifetime criminals. Clubwomen began to demand, and receive, seats on the boards governing important state and private institutions for children and families. Many also turned to the task of converting immigrant fami lies to Protestantism and middle-class American ideals of family life. \par While African-Americans were largely discouraged or barred from taking part in the World's Columbian Exposition, bla ck women did succeed in speaking before the Women's Congress at the fair. One speech, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper demanded justice for her race and defined the work of middle-class black women in the coming era. In this decade these women formed clubs that resembled white women's organizations in their devotion to education, suffrage, temperance, moral reform, and self-help. \par }{\field\fldedit{\*\fldinst {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 HYPERLINK "http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/index.html" }}{\fldrslt {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \cs16\ul\cf2\insrsid1324809 Ida B. Wells}}}\sectd \ltrsect \linex0\endnhere\sectlinegrid360\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid9840608\sftnbj {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 brought another perspective to Illinois. She came to Chicago from Memphis, Tennessee in 1893. 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In 1892 three of her friends were lynched by white mobs, and }{\field\fldedit{\*\fldinst {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 HYPERLINK "http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/index.html" } }{\fldrslt {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \cs16\ul\cf2\insrsid1324809 Wells}}}\sectd \ltrsect\linex0\endnhere\sectlinegrid360\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid9840608\sftnbj {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 wrote scathing exposes of the practice which received wide national attention. Facing intimidation and violence in Memphis, }{\field\fldedit{\*\fldinst {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 HYPERLINK "http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/index.html" }}{\fldrslt {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \cs16\ul\cf2\insrsid1324809 Wells}}}\sectd \ltrsect\linex0\endnhere\sectlinegrid360\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid9840608\sftnbj {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 became a traveling lecturer before marrying Barnett. \par }{\field\fldedit{\*\fldinst {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 HYPERLINK "http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/index.html" }}{\fldrslt {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \cs16\ul\cf2\insrsid1324809 Wells}}}\sectd \ltrsect \linex0\endnhere\sectlinegrid360\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid9840608\sftnbj {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 confronted the northern reform establishment as well as southern racism. In the 1890s she confronted Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union for their support of southern reformers who accepted the practice of lynching. In 1894 she pub lished }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid1324809 The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 , which detailed blacks' exclusion from the fair by white organizers. After 1895 }{\field\fldedit{\*\fldinst {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 HYPERLINK "http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/index.html" }}{\fldrslt {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \cs16\ul\cf2\insrsid1324809 Wells}}}\sectd \ltrsect\linex0\endnhere\sectlinegrid360\sectdefaultcl\sectrsid9840608\sftnbj {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1324809 largely confined herself to local political causes and raising her family. \par Illinois women finally received limited franchise rights in 1891 when the state legislature passed a bill that allowed them t o vote at any election held to elect school officials. Since these votes were often cast at the same time and place as those for other offices, election officials devised a complex system of separate ballots and separate ballot boxes for women. In 1894 Lu cy Flower became the first woman elected by state voters when she became a Trustee of the University of Illinois. \par While the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other middle-class women's movements for social reform often struggled to understand and reach immigrants and workers, others learned about their customs and assisted them in their new lives. In 1889 Jane Addams, the daughter of a wealthy banker from northern Illinois, founded Hull House on the city's west side. Established as a settlement house a f ter the example of English reformers who took up residence in London's slums, the dilapidated mansion soon featured public baths, a kindergarten and nursury, a playground and gymnasium, an employment bureau, and educational programs for neighborhood resid ents. \par Rather than openly attempt to change the lives and attitudes of poor immigrants, as so many devotees of social uplift had done, Addams proposed to provide them with an opportunity to organize and help themselves. In an eloquent argument for Hull Hous e's relevance, Addams emphasized not only the settlement house's impact upon the poor, but upon its well-to-do organizers as well. Citing the "snare of preparation" that led so many women of America's middle and upper classes to forever prepare, and never actually do, anything, Addams urged women to become active in civic life. \par Hull House's residents came to include, at different times and in addition to Addams, Florence Kelley, Sophonisba Breckinridge Dr. Alice Hamilton, Julia Lathrop, and Ellen Gates Sta rr. These women supported neighborhood residents in the formation of important reform societies, including the Immigrants' Protective League, the Juvenile Protective Association, and the nation's first juvenile court. Hull House also facilitated the State of Illinois' investigations of social ills, including truancy, infant mortality and sanitation. In a city and period often marked by bitter conflict among the classes, Hull House provided social reformers with reason for optimism. \par The Hull House reformers in many ways marked the emergence of what came to be known as the "new woman" in this era. College educated, often unmarried and self-supporting, these women first emerged from the period's new, eastern women's colleges. These institutions provided women with a sound education, but they enjoyed few professional opportunities outside of teaching. These women also faced another dilemma: how to reconcile family life with caree r. Overheated social critics further stirred the pot by arguing that career women simply did not want to be mothers, or even that too much education damaged the female reproductive system. \par While many women worked to turn their supposedly domestic and maternal talents and natures to political ends, a few American men began to doubt the tenets of domestic civilization. Led by the New Yorker Theodore Roosevelt, authors began to complain tha t American men had become overcivilized and effete. Many feared that a lack of aggressiveness and other manly virtues left the United States open for social decline. 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Early life, education, and family

Born Florence Lathrop on October 19, 1858, in Alexandria, Virginia[3] she was the daughter of Jedediah Hyde Lathrop and Mariana Bryan Lathrop (also known as "Minerva" and "Minna").[1][4] Her siblings included Bryan Lathrop, Barbour Lathrop, and Minna Lathrop.[1]

She was a descendant of the puritan John Lothropp on her father's side.[5] She was a member of the Barbour family on her mother's side. Her maternal grandmother was Mary Barbour Bryan (the daughter of Thomas Barbour, and the sister of James Barbour and Philip P. Barbour).[1][4] Her maternal grandfather was Daniel Bryan.[1]

Her family was wealthy, with her father having acquired a sizable fortune through stock investments, as well as banking in association with the Riggs Bank.[6]

Her parents were strong unionists, and, in the lead up to the American Civil War, her family left Alexandria, Virginia to settle in Chicago, Illinois, where their relative Thomas Barbour Bryan (her uncle) had been since 1852.[1][7] She grew up in the suburb of Cottage Hill, today's Elmhurst, Illinois,[8] a place which her uncle Thomas Barbour Bryan has been regarded as the "father" of.[9] Her family built their "Huntington" estate there in 1864, adjacent to the "Eagles Nest" estate of Thomas Barbour Bryan.[10][11]

Growing up, Florence was privately tutored at home, before being sent abroad to Paris, France, to finish her education, something which was fashionable for wealthy American families of the day to have their children do.[8] For four years, she would spend several months of the year studying in Paris.[8]

Adult life

Her wedding to Henry Field, and later wedding to Thomas Nelson Page, took place at Byrd's Nest Chapel, photographed here in 1900

On October 29, 1879, at the age of 21, she wed the 38 year old Henry Field at the Byrd's Nest Chapel, located between her family's "Huntington" estate and her uncle Thomas Barbour Bryan's "Eagle's Nest" estate in Elmhurst.[11][12] Henry Field was a junior partner in Field, Leiter & Company, the business of his elder brother Marshall Field.[13] Henry Field was a millionaire.[14]

After their wedding, the two lived abroad in Paris for two years, with Henry Field working as a foreign buyer in Europe for Field, Leiter & Company, which would soon be renamed Marshall Field & Company.[15]

Upon returning to the United States, the Fields resided in Chicago. In March 1882, Florence gave birth two their first child, a daughter who she named after her dead sister Minna (who would later take the name Minna Field Page).[16][17] In December 1883 she gave birth two her second daughter, who she named Florence (who would ultimately marry into the name Florence Field Lindsay).[18] In 1888, she gave birth to a third daughter, who she named Gladys. Glayds would die eight months after birth.[16]

When the Fields had returned to the United States in 1882, Henry Field had taken a year-long leave from Marshall Field & Company, returning only briefly before retiring from business in 1883, partially due to his failing health.[19] He would return briefly to the company again from 1885 until 1889 before again retiring.[19]

In 1890, three days before Christmas, Henry Field unexpectedly died after a brief sickness.[20] He was buried at Graceland Cemetery, a cemetery which her uncle Thomas Barbour Bryan had founded, and which her brother Bryan Lathrop then served as the president of.[21]

As a widow, she was wealthy.[22]

The Song of the Lark, 1884, by Jules Breton, one of the works which she gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago[23]

She was an early benefactor of the Art Institute of Chicago.[24] In 1893, she created "the Henry Field memorial" a special trust administered by her brother Bryan Lathrop, her brother-in-law Marshall Field, Owen T. Aldis, Martin A. Ryerson, and Albert A. Sprague. This trust contained all of the oil paintings that Henry Field had owned, except those that were family portraits.[23][25] This collection totaled 44 oil paintings, many of them from the barbizon school. The included works of Jules Breton, Jean-Charles Cazin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Constable, Charles-François Daubigny Joseph DeCamp, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Detaille, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Jules Dupré, Ernest Hébert, Ludwig Knaus, Jean-François Millet, Henri Rousseau, Adolf Schreyer, Constant Troyon.[23][25] Through the trust, she loaned all of these paintings to the Art Institute of Chicago.[23][25] This was considered the most important accession that the Art Institute of Chicago had received in the fourteen years it had existed.[23] She would later, on May 26, 1916, make an outright gift of the collection to the museum.[26] Additionally, in 1893, she commissioned for the Art Institute two lion sculptures by Edward Kemeys which adorn the main entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago Building to this day.[24][27]

Two years after the passing of Henry Field, she met Thomas Nelson Page.[28] Page was a member of the prestigious Nelson and Page families of Virginia.[28] In 1893, he proposed to her.[29] They wed at Byrd's Nest Chapel on June 6, 1893, before sixty relatives and close friends.[30] One of the two reverends who jointly officiated the wedding was Reverend Frank Page, the brother of the groom.[11] Soon after marrying, the Pages moved to Washington, D.C.[30] The two would not conceive any children in their marriage.[30] The Pages were considered part of the international café society, and traveled regularly to London, Paris, the Riviera, Rome, and would even travel to Egypt. They spent their summers (from May or June until October) at their summer cottage "Rock Ledge" in York Harbor, Maine.[31]

She was a philanthropist. She donated substantial amounts of money to create public health nursing programs in Chicago, Hanover County, Virginia, New York City, and Washington, D.C.[32] She was a donor to the endowments of Associated Charities of the District of Columbia.[32] She regularly gave to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (which her brother Bryan Lathrop was also a benefactor of), and continued to regularly give to the Art Institute of Chicago.[32] She endowed the Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia[32] She contributed to Episcopal churches, including Washington, D.C.'s St. John's Episcopal Church.[32] In 1915, she organized a large relief program to serve the victims of the 1915 Avezzano earthquake in Italy.[2] She worked to provide relief to the civilian and military casualties in Italy of World War I.[2]

She died on June 6, 1921. Her estate was estimated to be worth $2,000,000.[33]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Bryan001". www.elmhursthistory.org. Elmhurst Historical Society. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Funigiello p. 3
  3. ^ Funigiello p. 21
  4. ^ a b Funigiello p. 15
  5. ^ Funigiello p. 14
  6. ^ Funigiello pp. 2, 14–15
  7. ^ Funigiello pp. 14 and 16
  8. ^ a b c Funigiello p. 25
  9. ^ Funigiello p. 23
  10. ^ "Elmhurst". DuPage County Historical Society. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  11. ^ a b c "AMID SPRING FLOWERS Thomas Nelson Page Married to Mrs. Henry Field SIMPLE COUNTRY WEDDING". Newspapers.com. The Inter Ocean. 7 Jun 1893. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  12. ^ Funigiello pp. 27–28
  13. ^ Funigiello p. 27
  14. ^ "Mrs. Henry Field to Wed". Newspapers.com. The Wilkes-Barre News. 4 May 1893. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  15. ^ Funigiello p. 28–29
  16. ^ a b Funigiello p. 28
  17. ^ "FLORENCE PAGE'S BEQUESTS DIVIDE $750,000 ESTATE". Newspapers.com. Chicago Tribune. 25 Sep 1921. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  18. ^ Funigiello p. 28 and 45
  19. ^ a b Funigiello p. 29
  20. ^ Funigiello p. 33
  21. ^ Funigiello pp. 17–18, 33
  22. ^ Funigiello p. 41
  23. ^ a b c d e Funigiello p. 34
  24. ^ a b Myers, Quinn (2 October 2019). "Ask Geoffrey: The History of the Art Institute Lions". WTTW News. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  25. ^ a b c "A Magnificent Gift The Art Institute to Receive the Henry Field Collection of Paintings". Newspapers.com. The Inter Ocean. 4 Jun 1893. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  26. ^ Funigiello p. 35
  27. ^ Funigiello pp. 35–36
  28. ^ a b Funigiello p. 37
  29. ^ Funigiello p. 38
  30. ^ a b c Funigiello p. 39
  31. ^ Funigiello p. 46
  32. ^ a b c d e Funigiello p. 47
  33. ^ "MRS. PAGE LEFT $2,000,000". Newspapers.com. The New York Times. 30 Jun 1921. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

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