In Her Place A Guide to St. Louis Women's History Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Colonial Women	2
	The Marriage of Aramepinchieue	11
	Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau	12
	Jeanette Forchet	15
	Esther	17
	Victorire Delile	18
Ch. 2	Women on the Urban Frontier	20
	Philippine Duchesne	25
	Scypion Sisters Versus Pierre Chouteau	27
	Mitain	28
	Mary Hempstead Lisa	30
	Anna Maria von Phul	32
	Mary Paddock's Boardinghouse	33
	Female Charitable Society of St. Louis	35
	Elizabeth	36
	Sisters of Charity	37
	Anne Ewing Lane	38
	Mary Easton Sibley	40
	Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet	42
	St. Louis Association of Ladies for the Relief of Orphans	43
Ch. 3	Women at the Gateway to the West	46
	The Cholera Epidemic of 1849	52
	Employed Women	54
	Women and the Public Schools	55
	Polly Wash	56
	Anne Lucas Hunt	58
	Elizabeth Sargent	59
	Harriet Robinson Scott	60
	Harriet Hosmer	62
	Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul	64
	Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet	65
	Episcopal Orphans' Home	66
	School Sisters of Notre Dame	67
	Ursuline Nuns	68
	Sisters of the Good Shepherd	69
	Academy of the Visitation	70
	Home for the Friendless	71
	Girls' Industrial Home	71
	Sisters of Mercy	72
	White Haven	74
Ch. 4	St. Louis Women and the Civil War	76
	Jessie Benton Fremont	83
	Ladies' Union Aid Society	85
	Refugees of War	86
	Freedwomen in St. Louis During the Civil War	88
	Women Nurses in the Civil War	92
	Adaline Couzins	93
	"Battles of a Soldier's Wife"	94
	Gratiot Street Prison	95
	Margaret Parkinson McClure	97
	Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair	98
Ch. 5	Women in the Industrializing City	100
	Susan Blow	108
	Private Schools for Young Women	110
	Women and the Public Schools	111
	Women Physicians and Nurses	115
	Telephone Workers	116
	Women Tobacco Workers	117
	Domestic Workers	118
	Ella Barstow's Journal	120
	Women Go Downtown	122
	Red Light Districts in St. Louis	124
	St. Louis Social Evil Hospital and House of Industry	127
	The Suffrage Movement	130
	Virginia Minor	132
	St. Louis Women's Christian Association	135
	Mary Ellen Tucker and the Mission Free School	138
	South Side Day Nursery	140
	St. Louis Colored Orphans' Home	142
	Convent of the Good Shepherd	143
	St. John's Hospital	143
	St. Mary's Infirmary	145
	The 1896 Tornado	145
	Kate Chopin	148
Ch. 6	Progressive Era Women	152
	The Wednesday Club	160
	National Association of Colored Women	164
	Arsania M. Williams	166
	Working-Class Women and the WTUL	168
	Charlotte Rumbold	170
	Kate Richards O'Hare	173
	Board of Lady Managers at the 1904 World's Fair	176
	Florence Hayward	179
	Lillie Rose Ernst	180
	Lucille Lowenstein and the Missouri Children's Code	182
	Young Women's Christian Association	183
	Mary Hancock McLean, M.D.	185
	Phyllis Wheatley Branch YWCA	187
	St. Philomena's Technical School	189
	Queen's Daughters	189
	St. Francis's Colored Orphan Asylum	191
	St. Louis Children's Hospital	193
	The Suffrage Movement	195
	Phoebe Couzins	198
	Mary Ezit Bulkley	200
	Josephine Baker	202
	Pearl Curran, Spiritualist Medium	204
	The Potter's Wheel	207
	Fannie Hurst	209
	Confederate Memorial	211
	Women, Work, and World War I	212
	St. Louis's World War I Nurses	214
Ch. 7	Changing Places	216
	The League of Women Voters	229
	Junior League	231
	Edna Fischel Gellhorn	233
	College Alumnae Organizations	235
	Booklovers Club	237
	Anne Turnbo-Malone and Poro College	239
	Marie Meyer's Flying Circus	241
	The 1927 Tornado	242
	Roman Catholic Women Religious	244
	Rachel Stix Michael	247
	Jewish Orphans Home	248
	The Varieties of Domestic Life	249
	Maternal Health Association of Missouri	252
	People's Art Center	255
	Fannie Cook	256
	Housewives' League	258
	Garment Workers Unite	260
	Funsten Nut Pickers Strike	262
	Sitting-in at Stix	264
	St. Louis Women in the Military	265
	The Home Front	268
	"Rosie the Riveter" at the Small Arms Plant	270
	Margaret Hickey	272
	Child Care for Wartime Working Mothers	274
	The Joy of Cooking	276
	Sara Teasdale	278
Ch. 8	Women and Postwar St. Louis, 1945-1965	280
	Index	297
	Abbreviations	303