Edith Maude Marie Bolte MacCracken (February 16, 1869 – April 1946) was an American club woman and civic leader.
Early life
Edith Maude Marie Bolte was born on February 16, 1869, in Chicago, the daughter of William Henry Bolte and Jane Usher Baker.
Career
Edith Bolte MacCracken was president of the Ashland Civic Club; president of the
District Federation of Women's Clubs; State Regent of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was a member of the
Order of the Eastern Star
The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 187 ...
and the
General Society of the War of 1812
The General Society of the War of 1812 is an American non-profit corporation and charitable organization of male descendants of American veterans of the War of 1812. The General Society was founded on January 9, 1854, at the Congress Hall ...
.
From 1934 to 1935 she was the president of the
American Legion Auxiliary
The American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) is a separate entity from the American Legion that shares the same values. Composed of spouses, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, and sisters of American war veterans. Founded in 1919, the ALA is dedicated t ...
to the Jackson County Medical Society. In April 1935 she conducted a survey to collect biographical data of Jackson County physicians from 1850 to 1935.
Personal life
Edith Bolte MacCracken moved to Oregon in 1916 and lived in
Ashland, Oregon
Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Interstate 5 approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of the California border and near the south end of the Rogue Valley. The city's population was 21,360 at the 2020 ...
.
On March 15, 1900, in Chicago, she married Dr. Samuel Gordon MacCracken, the vice-president of the Jackson County Medical Society in 1924, and had three children: Chester Caldwell, Charles Gordon, Elliott Bolte.
She died in April 1946.
Legacy
The Edith Bolte MacCracken Collection on the History of the Physicians of Jackson County, 1935-1946 is hosted at
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a
public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Med ...
, Historical Collections & Archives.
References
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1869 births
1946 deaths
People from Ashland, Oregon
People from Chicago
Clubwomen