List of sketches of notable people by Marguerite Martyn - Wikipedia - We Like Cute

This is a list of sketches of notable people, or of their close relatives, drawn by Marguerite Martyn (American journalist, 1878–1948) and published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Jessie Ann Robbins Belmont, 1912

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Susan E. Blow, 1909

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Inez Milholland Boissevain, 1914

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Catherine Breshkovsky, 1919

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Helene Hathaway Robison Britton, 1911

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Cécile Chaminade, 1908

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Naomi Childers, 1916

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Mrs. Cornelius Cole, 1916

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Wallace Crossley, 1919

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Thamara de Swirsky, 1911

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Effie Ellsler, 1919

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Florence Harding, 1920

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Millicent Hearst, 1908

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Fannie Hurst, 1909

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Thomas E. Mulvihill Sr., 1908

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Anna Pennybacker, 1913

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Ben Reitman, 1910

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Finley Johnson Shepard, 1912

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Louise Vermilya, 1911

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Jane Addams, pioneer settlement worker

Judge Glendy B. Arnold of the divorce court

Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg, University of Illinois trustee

Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor, Republican Party activist

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, British politician

Rachel Foster Avery, pioneer suffragist

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Roger Nash Baldwin, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union

Illinois Congressman-elect William N. Baltz and his daughters

Bertha Barr, delegate to 1936 Republican National Convention

Ethel Barrymore, actress

Alva Belmont, socialite and suffrage benefactor

Mrs. Perry Belmont (Jessie Ann Robbins), wife of the New York politician and diplomat

Sarah Bernhardt, actress

Elizabeth Lucy Bibesco, English writer and socialite

Amelia Bingham, actress

Alice Stone Blackwell, suffrage leader and editor

Emily Newell Blair, writer, suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party leader

Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffragist

Anna E. Blount, president of the National Medical Women's Association

Susan Elizabeth Blow, educator, the "Mother of the Kindergarten"

'Round-the-world journalist Nellie Bly

Film actress Eleanor Boardman

Lawyer and suffragist Inez Milholland Boissevain

Catherine Booth-Clibborn of the Salvation Army,

Louise DeKoven Bowen, financial supporter of suffrage movement

Mary Carroll Craig Bradford, the only woman delegate at the 1908 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado

Catherine Breshkovsky, "grandmother of the Russian revolution"

Helene Hathaway Robison Britton, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals

Sallie Britton, daughter of James H. Britton, mayor of St. Louis, married to James Mackin, New York state treasurer

Izetta Jewel Brown, actress, women's rights activist and Democratic politician

Mary K. Browne, professional tennis player and amateur golfer

Attorney Mary Baird Bryan and her husband, William Jennings Bryan, two-time presidential candidate, and two grandchildren

Actress Billie Burke

Mrs. Adolphus Busch III (Florence McRhea Lambert), first wife of the brewery executive

Sarah Schuyler Butler, Republican activist

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S. Parkes Cadman, minister and advice columnist

Steelmaker Andrew Carnegie

Anna Ella Carroll, politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist

Anna Case, opera singer

Dancer and animal-rights activist Irene Castle, wife of Chicago businessman Frederic McLaughlin

Dancer Vernon Castle

Carrie Chapman Catt, suffrage leader

Espiridiona Cenda, dancer also known as Chiquita

Cécile Chaminade, French composer

Percival Chubb, Ethical Cultural Society leader

Kate Claxton, actress

Mrs. Cornelius Cole, one of the first three women accredited to a Republican National Convention

Nancy Cook, suffragist, educator, political organizer, businesswoman

Phoebe Couzins, lawyer

Caroline Bartlett Crane, known as "America's housekeeper" for her efforts to improve sanitation

Raymond Crane, comedian and actor

Missouri Lieutenant Governor Wallace Crossley

Mrs. Shelby Cullom (Julia Fisher), wife of the Illinois senator

Pearl Lenore Curran, author and medium, wife of John H. Curran, Missouri immigration commissioner.

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Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and his wife, Addie Worth Bagley

Dwight F. Davis, businessman and founder of the Davis Cup

Rose Davis, rodeo rider

Thamara de Swirsky, dancer

Actress Marie Doro

Loren and Dora Doxey, accused of murder

Anne Dallas Dudley, suffragist

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Aviator Amelia Earhart

Crystal Eastman, feminist and political activist

Catherine (Kitty) Elkins, daughter of Senator Stephen Benton Elkins, who wanted to marry Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi

Effie Ellsler, actress

Julian Eltinge, cross-dressing actor

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Martha P. Falconer, social reformer

Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate from the Vatican to the United States

Frank H. Farris, attorney, member of both the Missouri state Senate and its House of Representatives

Beatrice Farnham, artist and entrepreneur, the wife of John Otto (park ranger)

Martha Ellis Fischel, social service worker, mother of Edna Fischel Gellhorn, suffragist and reformer

Judith Ellen Foster, government official

James F. Fulbright, representative, Missouri Legislature

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Joe Gans, boxer

Mary Garden, actress

Missouri Governor and Mrs. Fred Gardner

Dancer Adeline Genée

Edna Fischel Gellhorn (Mrs. George), suffragist and reformer

James Gibbons, Roman Catholic cardinal

Artist Charles Dana Gibson

Irene Langhorne Gibson, philanthropist and Democratic National Convention delegate, the original Gibson Girl

Catholic Archbishop John J. Glennon

Emma Goldman, activist and writer

Samuel Gompers, labor leader

Edith Kelly Gould, wife of a millionaire Gould

Edward Howland Robinson Green, the only son of the miser Hetty Green

Isabella Greenway (Mrs. John C.), Arizona politician

Minnie J. Grinstead, teacher, Republican politician, and temperance worker

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Mrs. Herbert S. Hadley (Agnes Lee), wife of Missouri's governor

Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, English actress, lecturer, and writer

Anna Dall, daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Florence Mabel Harding, wife of President Warren G. Harding

Grace Carley Harriman, social leader and philanthropist

Mary Garrett Hay, New York suffragist

Grace Bryan Hargreaves, daughter of the William Jennings Bryans

Millicent Hearst, philanthropist and wife of the newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst

Robert Herrick (novelist)

Sallie Aley Hert, Republican activist, married to Alvin Tobias Hert

Dancer and choreographer Gertrude Hoffmann

Helen B. Houston, wife of David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture

Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of the Republican activist

Writer Fannie Hurst

May Arkwright Hutton, Idaho suffragist

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Charles "Buffalo" Jones, frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist

Mary Harris Jones, or "Mother" Jones, labor organizer

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Annette Kellerman, athlete who swam the English Channel

Florence Kelley, social and political reformer

Araminta Cooper Kern, wife of John W. Kern, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, and their son, William

Missouri State Senator Thomas Kinney

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Mrs. Albert Bond Lambert, socialite. Her husband was an industrialist, aviator, and golfer.

Mrs. William Palmer Ladd, wife of the dean of the Berkeley Divinity School

Jacob M. Lashley, lawyer, debated film censorship

Judge Ben Lindsey, social reformer

Ruth Bryan Leavitt, politician and the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador

Fifi Widener Leidy, daughter of Pennsylvania art collector Joseph E. Widener and wife of New York politician George Eustis Paine

Lydia Lipkowska, opera singer

Jack London, writer

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, celebrity and daughter of Theodore Roosevelt

Daniel A. Lord, American Catholic writer

Joan Lowell, actress

Felice Lyne, singer

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Mrs. Norman E. Mack, wife of the editor and publisher of the Buffalo Daily Times, with their daughter, Norma

Percy MacKaye, actor, director, playwright

Elliot Woolfolk Major, Missouri governor, and his wife

Richard Mansfield, actor

Lois Marshall, wife of Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall

Elisabeth Marbury, theatrical and literary agent and producer

Anne Henrietta Martin, president of the National Woman's Party

Frederick Townsend Martin, New York society leader and writer

Ned Martin, dancer and choreographer

Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo, daughter of President Wilson and wife of William Gibbs McAdoo

Ellen Wilson McAdoo, daughter of Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo and William Gibbs McAdoo

Sterling H. McCarty, representative, Missouri Legislature

Edith Rockefeller McCormick (Mrs. Harold), socialite and opera patron

Katrina McCormick, Republican activist

Ruth Hanna McCormick (Mrs. Medill), Republican politician

Catherine Waugh McCulloch, lawyer and suffragist

Mary McDowell, social reformer

George McManus, cartoonist, and Florence Bergere

"Countess" Candido Mendes de Almeida, wife of the Brazilian politician

Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, author and suffrage advocate

Mrs. Lee Meriwether, wife of the author

Patsy Ruth Miller, motion picture actress

Tamaki Miura, opera singer

Anne Tracy Morgan, philanthropist

Alexander Pollock Moore, diplomat, editor and publisher

Isabel Morrison, wife of New York politician Timothy Woodruff

"Czar" Thomas E. Mulvihill Sr., St. Louis excise commissioner

Actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter Mae Murray

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Alla Nazimova, actress

Oscar Nelson, boxer

Ione Page Nicoll, worked for repeal of the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment

Lillian Nordica, opera singer

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Barbara Blackman O'Neil (Mrs. David), socialite and suffragist

Mrs. John E. Osborne (Selena Smith), wife of the governor of Wyoming

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Theophile Papin, society leader and "squire of debutantes"

Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragist

Charles Henry Parkhurst, social reformer

Cissy Patterson, journalist and publisher

Irene Pavloska, opera singer

Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker (Mrs.Percy), president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs

Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer, actress and suffragist

Gifford Pinchot, forester and politician

Florence Collins Porter, newspaper editor, clubwoman, political campaigner, a Republican

Ruth Baker Pratt, Republican politician

Florence Pretz, inventor of the Billiken doll

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Mrs. James A. Reed (Lura M. Olmsted), wife of the former U.S. senator from Missouri

Ben Reitman, anarchist and medical doctor

Agnes Repplier, essayist

Mrs. Alexander Revell, wife of the Illinois businessman

The young Florence Wyman Richardson, daughter of the older Florence Wyman Richardson and sister-in-law to Ernest Hemingway

Lucyle Roberts, rodeo rider

Margaret Dreier Robins, labor leader

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, writer and lecturer

Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, Parisian property owner

Ginger Rogers, actress

Betsey Cushing Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt, writer and businessman, son of Theodore Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt, his wife (Edith Roosevelt) and his daughter (Ethel Roosevelt)

Nellie Tayloe Ross, Republican politician and ex-governor of Wyoming

Charlotte Rumbold, St. Louis and Cleveland social reformer

Lillian Russell, the actress

Patrick John Ryan, Catholic prelate

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Pauline Sabin, Republican activist opposed to Prohibition

Katherine Sandwina, circus strongwoman

Birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger

Nathaniel Schmidt, educator

Rose Schneiderman, labor-union executive

Mrs. Nathan B. Scott, wife of the U.S. senator from West Virginia

Cecil J. Sharp, who introduced folk dancing to the United States

Finley Johnson Shepard, businessman-husband of Helen Gould

Anna Howard Shaw, suffrage leader

Ruth Hanna Simms, politician, activist and publisher

Mrs. Al Smith (Catherine Ann Dunn), wife of the New York governor, and their daughter, Emily Smith Warner

Elizabeth Blackmon Smith, popular author of romantic fiction who wrote under the name Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith

Evangelist Gipsy Smith and his wife, Annie E. Pennock

Senator Reed Smoot of Utah

Ethel Annakin Snowden, British suffragist and pacifist.

Christine Bradley South of Kentucky, chairman, Woman's Division, Republican National Committee

Lena Jones Wade Springs, nominated for U.S. vice-president at 1924 Democratic national convention

Katherine Stinson, aviator

Rose Pastor Stokes, socialist activist, writer, and feminist

Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., child prodigy

Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury (Eva Roberts Cromwell), wife of the investment banker

Representative William Sulzer of New York and his wife, Clara Rodelheim

Thamara de Swirsky, Russian dancer[]

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Mrs. Charles P. Taft, wife of the newspaper publisher, and Louise Taft, their daughter

Presidential candidate William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft, and their grandchildren

Lilyan Tashman, actress

Sara Teasdale, poet

Ellen Terry, actress

Luisa Tetrazzini, opera singer

M. Louise Thomas, educator.

Socialite Edwine Thornburgh, later married to Englishman Wilfrid Peek

Genevieve Clark Thomson, suffragist, reporter, Louisiana politician and daughter of Speaker of the House Champ Clark

Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, a Russian artist, and Princess Troubetzkoy, his American wife

Grace Wilbur Trout, Illinois suffragist

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Harriet Taylor Upton, political activist and author, a Republican

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Bernard Vaughan, Roman Catholic priest from the UK

Louise Vermilya, mass murderer

Bertha Von Suttner, Nobel laureate

Rube Waddell, baseball player

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Charlotte Walker, actress

Eugene Walter, playwright

Fannie Ward, actress

Mabel Walker Willebrandt, attorney and Republican activist

Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas, reputedly the first woman mayor in the nation

President Woodrow Wilson and his family, Mrs. Wilson, and their daughters, Margaret, Jessie, and Eleanor

Film actress Claire Windsor

Jane Frances Winn, who wrote under the name "Frank Fair"

Wu Tingfang, Chinese ambassador to the United States

Margaret (Mrs. John) Wyeth of St. Louis, delegate to 1935 Republican National Convention

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Julie Chamberlain Nichols Yates, sculptor; wife of Halsey E. Yates, Army officer

Ella Flagg Young, educator

Mrs. Lafayette Young, wife of the Iowa newspaper publisher

Citations are to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch microfilm records.