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Katharine B. Davis was born on January 15, 1860, in Buffalo, New York, the eldest of the five children of Oscar B. Davis and Frances Bement. Her father's family had been pioneer settlers on the Holland Purchase. When Katharine was three her father moved his family to Dunkirk, New York, where he became prominent in civic and educational affairs.
In 1877 the family moved to Rochester, New York, where Davis entered the Free Academy to study chemistry. Graduating in 1879, she returned to Dunkirk to teach science in high school.
Encouraged to continue her education, Davis entered the junior class of Vassar College in 1890, where her interests, broadening to include the implications of science for human welfare, found a speciality in food chemistry and nutrition. She received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1892 and remained for a year of postgraduate study and teaching.
In 1900, Davis received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude, from the University of Chicago.
Davis received honorary degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Western Reserve and Yale universities.
In the spring of 1893 Davis was appointed head of the workingman's model home at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago to demonstrate scientific food budgets for workers' families, and later in the same year, she became head resident at Saint Mary's Street College Settlement in Philadelphia. This work confirmed her growing interest in social welfare.
In 1897 Davis resigned her position to study economics on a fellowship at the University of Chicago. A year later the European fellowship of the New England Association for the Higher Education of Women made possible further study at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna, where she gathered material for a thesis comparing the living conditions of Bohemians in Chicago with those in their native land. In 1900 she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude, from the University of Chicago.
Davis next took a New York State civil-service examination which led to her appointment as superintendent of the newly established State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills, New York. Here in 1901 began her long and successful career as a prison administrator. By introducing many innovations in the care and treatment of delinquent women and girls, she made Bedford one of the best-known experiments in the world. She established courses for training inmates in farming, gardening, painting, and interior decorating to develop skills which might prove useful on their release and to afford opportunities for developing what she called "character, self-restraint and self-direction. "
More important, however, was the establishment of a diagnostic laboratory of social hygiene at Bedford in 1912 under the auspices of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, instituted by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The laboratory was the fruit of Miss Davis's recognition of the need for a scientific study and classification of prisoners by sociologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists so that special training could be provided to fit the needs of the individual.
In January 1914 Davis resigned from Bedford to accept the position of commissioner of correction of New York City under the reform administration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, the first woman to serve in this capacity. Here her jurisdiction covered some fifteen penal institutions handling 125, 000 prisoners a year. The shocking conditions existing in these institutions at the time of her appointment prompted her to effect numerous improvements along the lines of scientific and remedial penology. Her most significant reforms were the abatement of the drug traffic, the segregation and classification of women prisoners, the improvement of prison diets, the extension of medical facilities, the regrading of prison personnel, and the establishment of the New Hampton Farm School to which male misdemeanants were transferred from the reformatory at Hart's Island.
In her position as commissioner, however, she did not escape criticism. The State Prisons Commission, after an investigation condemned by Mayor Mitchel as politically inspired, criticized the Davis régime as "too severe, harsh, and repressive. " On the other hand, the Prison Association of New York reported that the work of the Department of Correction under Miss Davis's leadership "entitled the City of New York to a place among the foremost of those communities that have conceived of the problem of correction in the light of the latest achievements of criminology and of penal administration". Undeterred by her critics and encouraged by her supporters, Davis proposed that the Department of Correction should be a laboratory for the scientific study of the prevention and correction of adult delinquency. Through her efforts, the New York legislature passed an indeterminate sentence and parole law in 1915 which established a New York City Parole Commission with power to determine the status of all prisoners committed under an indeterminate sentence and to exercise jurisdiction over the discharge and parole of each prisoner.
Davis was promoted to the first chairmanship of the new Parole Commission, a position she held only until 1918, when the Fusion régime in city politics came to an end. By this time, however, her achievements had already attracted wide recognition.
Upon the termination of her public career, Davis was engaged on a ten-year contract as general secretary of the Bureau of Social Hygiene. At the same time, she was also appointed to direct some of the social hygiene work in the army training camps. Later, after the armistice, she and Edith Hale Swift of Boston went abroad as representatives of the War Work Council of the Young Women's Christian Association to investigate social hygiene conditions in eleven countries. On her return to America, she made and directed further studies in social hygiene and in the causes and prevention of delinquency. Her most significant publication in the field of social hygiene is the study, Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-two Hundred Women (1929), published by the Bureau of Social Hygiene.
With the termination of her contract in 1928, she retired because of ill health. Katharine B. Davis died on December 10, 1935, in Pacific Grove, California, where she had made her home for five years.
Katharine Bement Davis is remembered as a penologist, social worker, and writer who had a profound effect on American penal reform in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During her lifetime Davis was honored numerous times by a variety of organizations. The Panama-Pacific Exposition designated her one of the three most distinguished women in America. Davis received honorary degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Western Reserve and Yale universities.
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