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Jessie Belle “Betty” <I>Hardy</I> MacKaye

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Jessie Belle “Betty” Hardy MacKaye

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
18 Apr 1921 (aged 45)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Met her first husband, F. Gurney Stubbs, when she became the head surgical nurse at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago (he was a physician there). She was a famous suffragist, antiwar activist, and noted for "urging all women to remain unmarried or to refuse to bear children". Her father was quite noteworthy in Chicago as a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Times.

You can read the story of her suicide on the New York Times website: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F0CE2DD113FEE3ABC4152DFB266838A639EDE.

Her body was cremated at the Fresh Pond Crematory in New York City.
Met her first husband, F. Gurney Stubbs, when she became the head surgical nurse at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago (he was a physician there). She was a famous suffragist, antiwar activist, and noted for "urging all women to remain unmarried or to refuse to bear children". Her father was quite noteworthy in Chicago as a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Times.

You can read the story of her suicide on the New York Times website: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F0CE2DD113FEE3ABC4152DFB266838A639EDE.

Her body was cremated at the Fresh Pond Crematory in New York City.


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