Reah Whitehead

[3][1] She prepared the Drafts of Bills for and assisted in procuring passage of laws for Women's State Reformatory and Filiation Proceedings.Her mother, Esther Bosley, was the driving force for the funding of the Women's Industrial Home and Clinic in Medical Lake, Washington; her daughter drafted the bill for the measure aimed to grant funding from state social welfare agencies, which passed.[2] In 1926 she was selected to represent Washington State at the American Women's Association convention in New York City.[2] In 1936 she strongly opposed the reinstatement of public whipping as a means to punishing criminals, according to her a society's failure.[2][1] In 1931, at 48 years old, Reah Whitehead married Frank Sidney Harrison, a retired grocery man.
Reah Whitehead, 1904
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Indiana, June 26, 1921
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