Word: bierstadt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian relief work in England and New York, directed the girls' department of Denver's Juvenile Court, investigated the cost of living in New-York and Baltimore. Between 1918 and 1923 she headed an Americanizing service for foreigners in New York, married and divorced Edward Hale Bierstadt, Manhattan writer. For nearly two years she managed the editorial division of the U. S. Children's Bureau. Then her father's failing health took her back to Denver where she busied herself as chief probation officer, referee and clerk in Judge Ben Lindsey's famed Juvenile & Family...
Arrayed behind Josephine Aspinwall Roche of Denver was the liberal following of Senior Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan and union labor. Miss Roche, 47, divorced wife of Edward Hale Bierstadt, Manhattan author and criminologist, left Vassar in 1908, took her M. A. at Columbia along with Frances Perkins. Like Miss Perkins, she went in for social service work. After her father died in 1927, Miss Roche was left with a large share of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second biggest coal mine in Colorado. She bought complete control, was the first operator in the State to unionize. When non-union owners tried...