Mary ware dennett biography of george
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett was born April 4, 1872, in her hometown Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dennett was born on 4 April 1872 as Mary Coffin Ware to Livonia Coffin and George Whitefield Ware in Worchester, Massachusetts.!
Dennett, Mary Ware (1872–1947)
American birth control advocate, women's suffragist, and pacifist whose 1929 landmark court case helped redefine the legal definition of obscenity. Pronunciation: DEN-et.
Born Mary Coffin Ware on April 4, 1872, in Worcester, Massachusetts; died of myocarditis in a nursing home in Valatie, New York, on July 25, 1947; daughter of George Whitefield Ware (a wool merchant) and Livonia Coffin (Ames) Ware; niece of Lucia Ames Mead ; attended Boston public schools, Miss Capen's School for Girls, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts; married William Hartley Dennett, on January 20, 1900 (divorced 1913); children: three boys, two of whom, Carleton and Devon, survived past childhood.
Taught decoration and design, Drexel Institute in Philadelphia (1894–97); opened handicraft shop in Boston (1898); councilor, Boston Society of Arts and Crafts (1899–1905); served as field secretary of Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association (1908–10);