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Account Books, Ephemera, & Photographs of the family of store clerk, Wareham Harry Olcott, of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., including his daughter Socialist & Suffragist, Jane Louise Olcott
Account book of Wareham Harry Olcott for “Budget for May 1, 1922 thru Jan’y 31, 1923,” “Cost of Living House Expenses,” for 1923, “Annual Cost of Living” 1922-1924; “Personal Budget for Feb 1 1924 to Jan 31, 1925,” etc., 72 pp., measures 8 ½” x 14”, bound in half leather, pebbled cloth boards, dated 1922-1928; lacks spine, text block split, worn at edges & corners, some leaves excised at beginning. Account book of Wareham Harry Olcott for “Index,” “Ford Account,” “Nash Account,” “Household Cost of Living,” 24 pp., measures 8 ½” x 14”, dated 1925-1928; bound in half leather, pebbled cloth boards, dated 1922-1928; spine badly chipped, worn at edges & corners, some leaves excised at beginning. Ephemera of the 1915 Woman’s Suffrage Campaign, including 12 pages of notes of Jane Olcott for expenses for the 1915 Campaign on the letterhead of the “Empire State Campaign Committee”; 4 blank printed suffragist forms for the “Empire State Campaign Committee” for the 1915 Campaign; 2 filled out stubs for “The Empire State Campaign Committee / Victory for Woman Suffrage in 1915”; 1 “Women’s Watcher’s Certificate” filled out, dated 1915; 1 page typed notes for itinerary of Jane Olcott for a couple of days in December 1914; 10 typed pages of statistics for various New York State county districts (1 thru 12), tabulating the number of registered voters, necessary majority needed, gains, and native born, etc.; 3 page typed letter signed by Carrie Chapman Catt, written to the various campaign district chairmen, dated 23 June 1914, concerning finances, political work, and fairs & state conventions; 1 page typed letter/circular, written by Josephine Cary, Street Railway Employee’s Union, Div. 308, to other unionists, not dated, circa 1914-1915, concerning her plea for help to union workers to pass woman’s suffrage. 32 black & white photographs, various sizes between 3 ½” x 2 ½” to 5” x 7”; some labeled, mostly not; shows men, women, children, several showing road work crews, the photos appear to be members of the Olcott family, with the several labeled photos stating such.
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Jane
Louise Olcott (1887-1966)
Jane Louis Olcott was born on 3 Jan 1887 at her
grandparent Olcott’s home at Georgetown, Washington, DC. She was the daughter
of store clerk, later government clerk, Wareham Harry Olcott (1853-1928) and
his wife Alice Hedrick (1859-1952). Alice Hedrick was the second wife of W. H.
Olcott. Jane had at least four siblings by her mother (Ella, Alice, Margaret,
& John) and three half-siblings (Charles, Richard, & Harry) by her
father’s first wife Ella Frances Moore (1852-1881).
Jane’s father W.H. Olcott was born in Brooklyn
in 1852 and by 1870 was found enumerated at Washington, DC, working as a clerk
in a store. He married his first wife
Ella on 19 Jan 1875 at Washington, DC, and after her death in 1881, he married
a second time to Jane’s mother Alice Hedrick on 10 March 1884. The Hedrick
family had lived in Lexington, NC for many years, but were originally German
immigrants who came to Pennsylvania in the early 18th Century before
moving to North Carolina. The two account books in this collection were kept by
Jane’s father W.H. Olcott.
Jane’s mother Alice was born in New York City in
1859. Alice graduated Mount Holyoke in 1880 and was a teacher in 1881 to 1882
at Elizabeth, NJ. She married Jane’s father W. H. Olcott in 1884. Jane
graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1909. Jane’s sister Margaret also graduated from
Mount Holyoke in 1917. Jane was an industrial secretary from 1909 to 1910 at
Holyoke and was an assistant editor in 1910 for The Artisan Holyoke. She held a position as a teacher at Glencarlyn,
VA from 1910 to 1911.
Jane belonged to the Socialist Party and was a
very active suffragist, particularly in New York State. She campaigned as the sole Socialist candidate
for a position on the Board of Aldermen in New York's 9th District in 1918.
Jane was an avid supporter of women's rights, advocating women's suffrage and
the right to use birth control. She was the Executive Secretary of the New York
State Woman's Suffrage Association between 1913 and 1914. In 1915 she traveled New York State as a
political activist for the 1915 campaign. This collection includes various
women’s suffragist ephemera of Olcott from the 1915 Campaign, which Jane Olcott
took an active part in the State of New York.
While she was single at the time of her 1918
campaign for the Board of Aldermen in New York, Jane was married twice after.
She married Robert Randolph Walters, an artist, in 1920, and later married a
Mr. McCord. Jane Louise Olcott died on 6 Oct 1966 at Sussex County, NJ.
