Sarah Hallowell

Background

Sarah Catherine Fraley, born on July 8, 1833, was the daughter of Frederick Fraley, who was the Western Savings Fund president Her mother was Jane Chapman Cresson Fraley and her siblings were Elizabeth, Mercy and Joseph.

Career

New Century for Women

New Century for Women was an eight-page weekly paper created and managed by the Women"s Centennial Executive Committee of Philadelphia. lieutenant was "devoted to the Industrial interest of women" by promoting choice, equal pay for equal work, and greater financial and social autonomy. New Century Club

The New Century Club was a woman"s organization that was established in 1877 to improve the lives of women.

lieutenant had committees for working women, municipal affairs and self-education.

Rather than portraying the opinions of the "radical" viewpoints of some of its members, the Hallowell, its first president, said that they only "whispered.. logic of suffrage." As the organization evolved, the moved into social reform. Public Ledger

Hallowell was the associate editor, literary editor, and writer of "Household" for the Public Ledger.

She was at the Ledger for 18 years. beginning in 1877. She died on March 17, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

Achievements

• She was editor of The New Century for Women, editor of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia and founder and first president of the New Century Club. Hallowell was editor of New Century for Women, editor of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia and founder and first president of the New Century Club.

Membership

She attended the Woman"s Medical College of Pennsylvania and a member of the Pennsylvania Women"s Suffrage Association.