NAWSA                                                SUBJECT FILE                  RANTOUL, LOIS B.

Our Gracious Ladies
by NATALIE GORDON
A direct descendant of Anne
Hutchinson, feminist, Mrs. Lois B.
Rantoul of Brookline is vitally interested 
in women's problems...
Her mother was the only daughter 
of James Russell Lowell; her
father was Edward Burnett, founder
of Deerfoot Farm... Although
born at Deerfoot Farm, Mrs. Rantoul
spent most of her early life
at Elmwood, the Lowell place in
Cambridge... Interested in suffrage
in its early days, she had
been on innumerable committees, 
was director of the Women's 
Branch of the Ordnance here and in 
Washington during the last world 
war; first director of the Women's 
Division of the C. W. A. for Massachusetts;
was responsible for the 
Women's Trade Union League's 
48-hour week for women; formed
member of the Board of the League
of Women Voters, and only woman
member of the Commission for Investigation 
of Pardons and Paroles
under Gov. Saltonstall... With a
life filled with public and civic
duties, she nevertheless finds time
for many hobbies... Did the decorations
herself for her attractive
colonial home in Chestnut Hill;
loves to work in her garden; collects early American glass and
china, and is an omnivorous reader
and theater fan ... believes in
people having their own opinions,
but loves a good argument ... Keen,
alive, humorous, she dislikes indifferent 
people ... likes to drive 
her own car and would rather
telephone than write any day ...
Divides her summers between Connecticut
and Maine, and is inordinately 
proud of her five 
grandchildren ... Her most absorbing
interest will always be woman's 
place in the sun. 
(Monday:  Mrs. Norman B. Smith)

MRS. LOIS B. RANTOUL

MRS. LOIS B. RANTOUL
(Grand daughter of James Russell Lowell)
Papers about her work in Women's Trade Union League to go in 1961-2 to Women's Archives at Radcliffe College
lives 1961, at 153 Crafts Rd. Chestnut Hill, Mass.

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