Paula Laddey
Paula Laddey (May 1, 1879 – August 2, 1966) was a German-born American lawyer.
Paula Laddey | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 1, 1879 Mannheim, Germany |
| Died | August 2, 1966 Nogales, Arizona |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, clubwoman |
Early life and education edit
Laddey was born in Mannheim,[1] the daughter of Clara Schlee Laddey and Victor H. G. Laddey.[2] Her mother was a lecturer, and president of the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Association from 1908 to 1912.[3][4] She moved to the United States with her family as a child in 1888. She graduated from New York University in 1906, and earned a law degree from Newark Law School in 1911.[5][6]
Career edit
Law and clubwork edit
From 1908 to 1913, Laddey was a probation officer in Newark.[7][8] In 1913 she was admitted to the practice of law in New Jersey. In time she was also admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. She represented the New Jersey Legal Aid Society at a national conference in 1916,[9] and in 1919 served on a committee of the National Conference of Social Work.[10] She wrote about workers' compensation laws for the Women Lawyers' Journal.[11] She also spoke in favor of women serving on juries.[12][13] In 1924 she spoke before a United States Senate subcommittee on the Permanent Court of International Justice.[14]
Laddey served on the board of trustees for the State Home for Girls in Newark.[15][16] In 1914 she reported on the Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, Delinquent, and Dependent Children, held that year in Memphis.[17] In 1919 she was a founding member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, and served as the organization's first treasurer.[1][18]
In 1936[19] and 1937,[20] Laddey gave a series of lectures on women's rights, for the League of Women Voters[21] and the Woman's Club of Upper Montclair.[22][23] She spoke at a Montclair church in 1941, on the subject "Why Women Should Make Wills".[24] She spoke on the same subject in Vermont in 1952.[25]
With Beatrice Henry edit
Laddey had a longtime law practice in New Jersey, in partnership with suffragist Vernona Beatrice Henry.[26][27] In 1916, Laddey and Henry were both on the pageant auxiliary committee for the 250th anniversary of the City of Newark.[28] Both women were active in the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri, hosting meetings of the Italian cultural interest group in their home.[29] In 1953, the two and a third woman, Katharine Smith, incorporated a firm called Heel-ins, to manufacture shoe components in St. Albans, Vermont.[30] Laddey and Henry also ran the North Country Press together.[1]
Personal life edit
Paula Laddey and Beatrice Henry were law partners, and they shared a home in St. Albans Bay, Vermont,[31][32] with their friend and colleague, Katharine Smith.[33] Henry died in 1954; Paula Laddey moved to Nogales, Arizona to live near her nephew David Laddey, and died there in 1966, aged 87 years.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Miss Paula Laddey". The Burlington Free Press. 1966-08-05. p. 19. Retrieved 2020-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Perlin, Sandy. "Biographical Sketch of Clara Schlee Laddey". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1898-1920, Alexander Street. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ Leonard, John William (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. p. 469.
- ^ "An Earnest Worker". Irvington Gazette. August 20, 1915. p. 4. Retrieved June 21, 2020 – via Hudson River Valley Heritage.
- ^ "Paula Laddey". Women's Legal History Biography Project. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- ^ "Ambitious Young Woman". The Drummond Messenger. 1911-10-12. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ New Jersey State Conference of Social Work (1911). Proceedings of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections. pp. 114–116.
- ^ "Ambition to Teach Ultimately Led Woman to Practice of Law". The Indianapolis News. 1923-06-09. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Batlan, Felice (2015-04-16). Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945. Cambridge University Press. pp. 127, note 13. ISBN 978-1-316-03371-5.
- ^ National Conference of Social Work (U S. ) (1919). Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work. The Conference. p. 785.
- ^ Laddey, Paula (January 1922). "Workmen's Compensation Laws". Women Lawyers' Journal. 11: 9.
- ^ "Need Women on Juries". The Kansas City Star. 1922-08-10. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Speaker Stresses Duties of Women". The Montclair Times. 1937-05-25. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ United States Congress Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1924). Permanent Court of International Justice: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session... April 30 and May 1, 1924. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 144.
- ^ Proceedings of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction: ... Annual Meeting. New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction. 1915. p. 91.
- ^ "Miss Laddey to Give Talk Here". Trenton Evening Times. March 12, 1917. p. 10. Retrieved June 21, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ Laddey, Paula (May 30, 1914). "The Children's Conference". The Survey. 32: 245.
- ^ "An Organization of Builders" Independent Woman (August 1921): 15.
- ^ "New Jersey Laws Allow Wife to Riflee Her Husband's Pockets". The Windsor Star. 1936-12-02. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Happenings at the Woman's Club of Upper Montclair". The Montclair Times. 1937-10-26. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Paula Laddy Will Address Women Voters League on Friday". The Courier-News. 1936-03-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "LAWYER TO LECTURE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS; Miss Paula Laddey of Newark to Speak in Study Series at Upper Montclair". The New York Times. 1936-11-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- ^ "Legal Status of Married Women in New Jersey is Outlined to League". The Courier-News. 1936-03-07. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Paula Laddey to Speak at St. John's Church". The Montclair Times. 1941-10-31. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Paula Laddey Addresses 150". St. Albans Daily Messenger. 1952-05-07. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Brow, Kelsey; Hendrickson, Lisa. "Biographical Sketch of Vernona R. Henry". Alexander Street, Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ "Women Lawyers Open Office in Church Street". The Montclair Times. 1941-04-08. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Stevens, Thomas Wood (1916). Book of Words: The Pageant of Newark. Committee of one hundred. p. 104.
- ^ "Dante Alighieri to Meet at Paula Laddey's Home". The Montclair Times. 1940-03-26. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Burlington, St. A. Firms Incorporate". The Burlington Free Press. 1953-01-03. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ferry, Stu (1952-09-16). "Inside St. Albans". St. Albans Daily Messenger. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Women Lawyers Open Office in Church Street". The Montclair Times. 1941-04-08. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Order of Publication". St. Albans Daily Messenger. 1961-06-12. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-06-22 – via Newspapers.com.
External links edit
- Letter from Paula Laddey to AFOB (January 26, 1955), in the archives of the American Foundation for the Blind.