Ruth Standish Baldwin

Ruth Standish Baldwin (December 5, 1865[1] – December 1934)[2] was the wife of railroad tycoon William Henry Baldwin Jr. and a cofounder of the National Urban League. Her father was Samuel Bowles III. Her daughter married a painter.

She graduated from Smith College in 1887.[3][4]

She married Baldwin in 1889.[5] They had two children, Ruth Standish Baldwin and William Henry Baldwin III.[6][7] Her husband died in 1905.[1] The same year she joined with Frances Kellor, a social worker and attorney, to form the National League for the Protection of Colored Women in order to protect women migrating to the north who might be "easy targets for con men who could lead them into prostitution". The NLPCW organized to steer women into safe employment instead.[8] She founded the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negros with George Edmund Haynes in 1910.[9]

She commissioned architect Ehrick Rossiter to design the Standish House (1910), later renamed Edgewood.[10] She is credited with influencing her nephew Chester Bowles.

She helped found Highlander Folk School at the end of her life.[2] She was friendly with Booker T. Washington and they wrote to each other.[11]

References
  1. "The Massachusetts Magazine: Devoted to Massachusetts History, Genealogy, Biography". Salem Press Company. 1 May 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. Cutlip, Scott M. (5 November 2013). The Unseen Power: Public Relations: A History. Routledge. ISBN 9781136690006 – via Google Books.
  3. "The Smith Alumnae Quarterly". 1 May 2018 – via Google Books.
  4. Blacks in the City: A History of the National Urban League https://books.google.com/books?id=YRZCAAAAIAAJ Guichard Parris, Lester Brooks, 1971 page 21 "Ruth Baldwin was a blue-blooded Brahmin, daughter of Samuel Bowles, publisher of the venerable Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican. She traced her ancestors to Miles Standish, one of the first English colonists. She shared her husband's concern for blacks and for reform and enlisted her strength in respectable radicalism as a supporter of many pioneering labor progressive movements and as trustee of her alma mater, Smith College."
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  7. Cutlip, Scott M. (5 November 2013). The Unseen Power: Public Relations: A History. Routledge. ISBN 9781136689994 – via Google Books.
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=mOcDxX0rhukC&pg=PA109&dq=ruth+standish+baldwin+booker+t.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv5cau3tHZAhUEaq0KHR9VDxUQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q=ruth%20standish%20baldwin%20booker%20t.&f=false page 109
  9. "Michigan History". Michigan Department of State. 1 May 1976 – via Google Books.
  10. Turkel, Stanley; Ishc, Stanley Turkel Cmhs (1 May 2018). Built to Last: 100+ Year-Old Hotels in New York. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781463443412 – via Google Books.
  11. Washington, Booker T.; Harlan, Louis R. (1 November 1984). Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13: 1914-15. Assistant Editors, Susan Valenza and Sadie M. Harlan. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252011252 – via Google Books.
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