Nationality American Education Oberlin College Role Author | Name Catharine Valkenburg Occupation lawyer | |
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Full Name Catharine Van Valkenburg Born 1829 Dumfries, New Brunswick Alma mater Oberlin College; Union College of Law Known for president of the Woman's International Bar Association Died 1913, Chicago, Illinois, United States Books The Mormon Prophet and His Harem | ||
Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite (30 January 1829, Brantford, Ontario, Canada – 9 November 1913, Chicago, Illinois) was a United States author, lawyer and women's suffrage activist.
Biography
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1853, and married Charles Burlingame Waite the next year. They had eight children.
She was a graduate of the Union College of Law and a member of the Illinois bar. In 1859, she established Hyde Park Seminary. In 1886, she founded the Chicago Law Times, a quarterly magazine which she edited. Waite was a women's rights activist. At the International Council of Women at Washington, she was elected president of the Woman's International Bar Association, 26 March 1888.
She headed the publishing firm of C. V. Waite and Co., and wrote The Mormon Prophet and His Harem (Cambridge, 1865).