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Dorothy Hamilton Brush (1894–1968) was a birth control advocate, women's rights advocate, and author. She worked with Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement and co-wrote (using her maiden name Dorothy Adams Hamilton) with Walter S. Hayward, ''The American People: A Popular History of the United States, 1865-1941'' (1943) and ''Your Land and My Land: The American People from Lincoln to Roosevelt'' (1943). Brush also wrote travel articles for the magazine World Traveller and a few children's plays for the Samuel French Company, which were published in the late 1920s. == Early life == Dorothy Hamilton Brush〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6k65jb5 )〕 was born on March 14, 1894 to Walter James Hamilton, a lawyer, and Mary Jane Adams. She had two sisters, Gladys and Margaret, the latter of whom went on to become an actress most famous for portraying the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz movie. They grew up in Cleveland and Brush went to school at the Hathaway Brown School. She attended Smith College where she was very active, serving as a delegate to the YWCA Silver Bay Camp in New York, as a house president, and as a Student Adviser. She also participated in a number of clubs and societies, including the Alpha Society, Il Tricolore, Blue Pencil, and the Debating Union. She wrote short stories and other works and served on the editing staff for a variety of college publications such as the Monthly Board, the Weekly Board, and the Class Book Board. During her junior year Brush was the class historian. She wrote the "History of Junior Year" for her class in the 1917 yearbook, as well as the words for the Ivy Song and for "Alma Mater." She graduated from Smith College in 1917.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/smitharchives/manosca209.html )〕 In 1917 Brush married her first husband, Charles Francis Brush, Jr., son of Charles Brush, the creator of a new arc lamp and lighting system and founder of Brush Electric, which later merged with two other companies to become General Electric. While Charles Brush, Jr. was serving in the Ordinance Officers' Reserve Corp of the Army as a first Lieutenant from 1917 to 1919, Dorothy worked for various charities in Washington, D.C., and then in Sheffield, Alabama. In 1919 Charles and Dorothy embarked on a round-the-world trip that included a stop in Honolulu, Hawaii, and then returned to the United States to settle in the Cleveland, Ohio area where Charles established the Brush Research Laboratory. Their first child, Jane, was born in 1920 and their second child, Charles III, was born in 1923. Beginning in 1922 Brush volunteered for the Junior League in the Cleveland area. Her work in a prenatal clinic led to her increased awareness, and advocacy, of women's health issues and birth control. Along with several friends and supporters, Brush played a large part in the establishment of the Maternal Health Association in 1928, the precursor to Planned Parenthood of Cleveland〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/ohio/cleveland/44109/old-brooklyn-health-center-2508-91230 )〕 established in 1966. In May 1927 Brush's six-year-old daughter Jane became ill with pneumonia and needed a blood transfusion, for which her father Charles had volunteered to donate his blood. Jane did not recover and died, and Charles suffered complications from the transfusion, dying a week later. In her husband's memory Dorothy opened the Maternal Health Association (MHA) in 1928, a project which she and others had been planning since 1921. MHA later became the Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland. In 1929 her father-in-law, inventor Charles F. Brush, Sr., appointed Dorothy to the Board of Managers of his newly created Brush Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=BDAH )〕 Dorothy Brush continued her work with the Maternal Health Association but also became increasingly involved with the Foundation, serving as an administrator and later as Chairman from 1957 to 1963. The Brush Foundation still exists and has broadened its mission to include research and education on a wide variety of birth control issues. In 1929 Dorothy Brush married Alexander Colclough Dick and they moved to New York City. In 1930 their daughter Sylvia was born. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Hamilton Brush」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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