Endowments; Social settlements; Community centers; New York (N.Y.); Lenox Hill Settlement Association (New York, N.Y.); Day, Jessie Winterton
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 83
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Mrs. Harry A. Day
Inspired by the settlement model, and acting under the auspices of the New York Free Kindergarten Association, alumnae of the Normal College (later renamed Hunter College) opened a kindergarten at Third Avenue and East 63rd Street in 1890. Under the l eadership of Mary Wells, the first Head Worker, clubs and classes for older children and teens were organized as well. In 1894 a building was rented at 446 East 72nd Street, and Alumnae Settlement was formally established. To serve settlement neighbors of all ages, programs were soon expanded to include women's groups, civics clubs, athletics, cultural events, English classes, and Fresh Air camp. In 1911 the settlement was re-organized as the Lenox Hill Settlement Association. While Normal College alumnae maintained significant representation on the board of directors, the change reflected the fact that the settlement had grown into an institution of and for the whole community. Financial support for the settlement had also broadened beyond Normal College alumnae to include members of some of New York's most influential families. Rockefellers, Morgans, Pierreponts, and others were among the early benefactors... In 1922 the settlement was re-incorporated as Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association (LHNA)... In 1994 the name of the settlement was changed to Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. Now in its second century, the settlement maintains its commitment to serve all members of its diverse community." [SOURCE: Moske, James. "Historical Note." The Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Collection 1892 - 2015 Finding Aid. Hunter College Libraries Archives and Special Collections, January - March 1995, revised: November 2014; October 2017, pp. 5-7. https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/old/sites/default/files/pdf/finding_aids/Lenox_Hill_Neighborhood_House_Collection.pdf. Accessed 1 Oct. 2018.] "An effort will be made to bring about the disfellowship of Madison Avenue Baptist Church as a result of the action of its members in expelling from the congregation Mrs. Harry A. Day, of 205 West Fifty-seventh Street, for preferring charges of immorality against its pastor, the Rev. Dr. George Caleb Moor. Mrs. Grace Humiston, attorney and sister of Mrs. Day, said last night that a church council of five ministers has already been appointed and has heard testimony at a meeting in the Second Avenue Baptist Church... Measures are already under way toward this end, according to Mrs. Humiston. Her father was superintendent of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church for a number of years and her sister, Mrs. Day, was on the pulpit committee and took a prominent part in all forms of church work..." [SOURCE: "Woman Barred, Seeks Ban on Whole Church." New - York Tribune (1911-1922), Feb 17, 1922, pp. 3. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/576542997?accountid=10226. Accessed 1 Oct. 2018.] "Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1871–1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. She was a graduate of the Law School of New York University and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes', starting with her work solving the cold case of Ruth Cruger who disappeared in New York in 1917. Quackenbos Humiston was born Mary Grace Winterton. Her father was Adoniram Judson Winterton, a well-to-do merchant and prominent in the laywork of the Baptist church... She was educated at Hunter College in New York and graduated in 1888..." [SOURCE: "Mary Grace Quackenbos." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Grace_Quackenbos. Accessed 1 Oct. 2018.] "On holidays and odd Sundays, Grace would leave her apartment at the Vanderbilt at Thirty-fourth and Park and step over to the Osborne, on Fifty-seventh and Seventh, right across from Carnegie Hall. She would ride up the open shaft elevator to her sister Jessie's new apartment...Grace was a lawyer and detective; Jessie, a church lady whose husband, Harry, had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and blood ties to the founders of the Baptist Church in America." [SOURCE: Ricca, Brad. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation. Macmillan, 2017, pp. 336-337. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=_A6HDQAAQBAJ. Accessed 1 Oct. 2018.] "Mrs. Jessie W. Day, chairman of the board of managers of Alumnae House--the settlement--presents a report in which she says: 'It is the firm conviction of your resident workers and a member of the advisory board, who is in close touch with the settlement, that the time has come when, for its own sake and the good that it can accomplish in the neighborhood, the settlement should cease to be called the Normal College Alumnae Settlement and to be controlled absolutely by this association because of the limitations which such a control and such a name create. For fifteen years it has belonged to us, but it is a fact that it does not receive adequate support from those whose name it bears, nor is it ever likely to grow to its full usefulness under present conditions.'" [SOURCE: Alumnae Association, Normal College of the City of New York. "NORMAL COLLEGE - Report of Associate Alumnae - New Plan for Control of Settlement." Alumnae News, 1909? Hunter College Libraries. Scrapbooks - Alumni Association, Box 184, Volume 1, pp. 26, https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/documents/archives/scrapbooks/Alumni_Association_Scrapbook_BX184_v1.pdf. Accessed 1 Oct. 2018.]