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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: August 1, 2015
Caption: Kate Waller Barrett, M.D. c. 1857-1925
Humanitarian, Social Activist
Additional Description:
“A woman without fear, with a great heart equal to her brilliant mind, a leader in every movement for the advancement of humankind, a champion of unpopular causes. The cause of the outcast woman, the cause of the ill-treated prisoner, the cause of those disbarred by circumstance from educational or social opportunity, the cause of the disfranchised woman, the cause of the disabled World War veteran – these difficult and at times disheartening movements absorbed her attention, but never caused her to lose her abundant faith, her youthful enthusiasm and her love of all sorts and conditions of people.” — Adele Clark

President, National Florence Crittenton Mission 1909-1925
National President, American Legion Auxiliary 1922-1923
President, National Council of Women 1911-1916
Member, Board of Visitors, College of William & Mary 1921-1925
Virginia State Regent, Daughters of the American Revolution 1919-1925
"Virginia's most distinguished woman"
— Governor E. Lee Trinkle
The Kate Waller Barrett Library building was donated in 1937 by Robert South Barrett and Viola Tupper Barrett Dedicated May 2010 Kate Waller Barrett Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Plaque in the Kate Waller Barrett Branch of the Alexandria Virginia Public Library
Submitted: August 2, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p319453
File Size: 2.746 Megabytes

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