╥PAR@ ` TEXT ` Nathan, Maud1862╨1946reformerBorn in New York City on October 20, 1862, Maud Nathan was an elder sister of Annie Nathan (Meyer). She attended private schools in New York and a public high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, graduating from the last in 1876. In April 1880 she married her cousin Frederick Nathan, a New York broker. Early in her married life she involved herself in such community service organizations as the New York Exchange for Women╒s Work and the Women╒s Auxiliary of the Civil Service Reform Association, and she served also as a director of the nursing school of Mount Sinai Hospital. In 1890 Nathan joined Josephine Shaw Lowell and others in forming the New York City Consumers╒ League, a group devoted to organizing the marketplace power of consumers in order to induce reforms in the industrial system. Nathan╒s first project for the League was an investigation of the working conditions of women sales clerks. In 1897 she became president of the New York Consumers╒ League, and on the organization of the National Consumers╒ League the next year she was elected to the executive board. The New York League under her leadership provided unofficial factory and shop inspectors, published ╥white lists╙ of employers who met standards for wages and working conditions, and lobbied for legislative protections for workers. Lobbying the New York legislature from her position as a non-voter drew Nathan into the campaign for woman suffrage. Nathan served as first vice-president of the New York Equal Suffrage League and in 1912 was chairman of the suffrage committee of the Progressive (Bull Moose) party. She spoke throughout the state on behalf of suffrage and on several occasions addressed international suffrage conferences. She was also active at various times in the Woman╒s Municipal League of New York, the New York and General Federations of Women╒s Clubs, the League for Political Education, the League of Women Voters, and the National Council of Jewish Women. She resigned as president of the New York Consumers╒ League in 1917 and was named honorary president for life. Nathan wrote The Story of an Epoch-Making Movement, on the work of the League, 1926, and an autobiography, Once Upon a Time and To-day, 1933. She died in New York City on December 15, 1946. vstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ ! !I o !I ▐ â !I f 5¬ g !I } !I ▐ Æ !I ┬ 5¬ ├ !I L 5¬ M !I Z !I !I ╕ !I ╙ !I .link ` HYPR o âHYPR } Æ
