Thomas, Martha Carey (1857-1935)

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College Equal Suffrage League

National American Woman Suffrage Convention (1912)

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 13, 1906

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 23, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 31, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 5, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 21, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 29, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 24, 1908

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 7, 1908

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 05, 1908

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, December 21, 1908

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, March 11, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 23, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 30, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, July 15, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, July 23, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Marjorie Daw Johnson, July 23, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, December 12, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, February 18, 1915

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, November 24, 1906

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, November 20, 1908

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, August 29, 1910

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, March 7, 1912

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, March 9, 1912

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, November 6, 1912

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, June 5, 1907

Jane Addams to Henry Churchill King, December 6, 1907

The Social Value of the Immigrant, March 14, 1908 (excerpt)

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, March 24, 1908

Jane Addams to Caroline Bartlett Crane, November 8, 1911

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, November 10, 1911

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, April 17, 1912

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, July 11, 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 4, 1912

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge to Jane Addams, November 18, 1914

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 1, 1915

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, November 28, 1921

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, September 17, 1922

Mary Hall Ingham to Jane Addams, January 31, 1924

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Birth Date

1857-01-02

Death Date

1935-12-02

Birthplace

Baltimore, Maryland

Biographical Text

Martha Carey Thomas was the second president of Bryn Mawr College. Influenced by the feminism of her mother and aunt, Thomas grew up to be an independent woman. She attended a Society of Friends school, then the Howland Institute. She then went to Sage College, a women's school at Cornell University. Afterwards, Thomas earned a Ph.D. in linguistics, summa cum laude, in 1882 from the University of Zurich, becoming the first woman and the first foreigner to do so. In 1884 Thomas became the dean of Bryn Mawr College and the chair of English, and she worked very closely with the president of the college, James Rhoads. She founded the Bryn Mawr School with Mary Garrett, Mamie Gwinn, Elizabeth King, and Julia Rogers in 1885. In 1894 Thomas became the president of Bryn Mawr after Rhoads died. In 1908 Thomas became the first president of the National College Women's Equal Suffrage League, and she was also a leading member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Thomas died in 1935.

Thomas often invited Jane Addams to speak at Bryn Mawr and give lectures. Addams also invited Thomas to Hull House as well. The pair also corresponded about the Suffrage Movements and actions within the National American Woman Suffrage Association.