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Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, Mrs. Al Smith, Caroline O’Day, Anna Roosevelt in Hyde Park
Marion Dickerman was born April 11, 1890, in Westfield, New York. She studied for two years at Wellesley College before transferring to Syracuse University, where she was an avid supporter of woman’s suffrage and campaigned for protective labor legislation for women, the abolishment of child labor, and world peace. A strong, committed student, Dickerman received her bachelor of arts in 1911 and a graduate degree in education in 1912. After a brief teaching assignment in Canisteo, New York, in 1913 Dickerman moved to Fulton, New York, where she taught American history and became reacquainted with Syracuse classmate Nancy Cook, who taught arts and handicrafts at Fulton High School. The two women would become lifelong partners, living together almost their entire adult lives, sharing a life dedicated to politics, education, and progressive reform.
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