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BROWN, Mrs. Larve

Mrs. LaRue Brown (Dorothy Kirchwey)
daughter of George W. Kirchwey

See her papers at Radcliffe College Women's Archives,
Cambridge, Mass.

Chairman Natl. League of Women Voters Child Welfare
Committee and lead fight for Child
Labor Amendment

Was Pres. Mass. League of Women Voters
Archive Boston Democrat


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BIOGRAPHICAL SERVICE

Mrs. LaRue Brown - Chairman, Child Welfare Committee
National League of Women Voters

Child Welfare in its broadest sense embraces fundamental questions of social
welfare which must be understood and corrected before the lives of children can
be permanently conserved. Dorothy Kirchwey Brown (Mrs. LaRue Brown) fulfills
those requirements to a remarkable extent. Her home environment lent itself to
an understanding and interest in questions of social import. Her father, George
W. Kirchwey, was first professor of law at and later Dean of the Columbia University 
Law School and is now professor of Criminology and Penology at the New
York School for Social Work. After having graduated from Barnard College,
Columbia University, for a year Dorothy Kirchwey was an Assistant in Economics
at Smith College. Later she was a Fellow in the Bureau of Social Research of
the Russell Sage Foundation, where she worked on a Survey of the Middle-West
side of New York City under the direction of Pauline Goldmark. Later she became 
interested in questions on employment and studied employment systems for
harbor workers in the port of Hamburg, for use in "The Longshoreman" by C. B.
Barnes, published by the Russell Sage Foundation, and in 1915 was Assistant
Superintendent, Women's Division of the New York State Employment Bureau, Brooklyn, 
New York. Before this she was for a time special agent for the U. S.
Commission on Industrial Relations, working under Marie L. Obenauer, Director of
the Women's Division.
In 1915, Dorothy Kirchwey was married to LaRue Brown, a lawyer of Boston,
Mass., formerly Chairman of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission, Counsel
for the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association, later Assistant Attorney General of
the United States and at present General Solicitor of the United States RailRoad 
Administration.

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