Lillian G. Kohlhamer
{{short description|American suffragist}}
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| name = Lillian G. Kohlhamer
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| alt = A white woman with dark hair, wearing a dark suit with a white blouse, and a dark hat with wing decorations
| caption = Lillian G. Kohlhamer, from her 1915 passport application
| other_names = Lillian Gottlieb Kohlhammer
| birth_name = Lillian Gonzales
| birth_date = November 13, 1870
| birth_place = Buffalo, New York
| death_date = November 26, 1929
| death_place = Italy
| occupation = Suffragist, peace activist
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Lillian Gonzales Kohlhamer (November 13, 1870 – November 26, 1929), also known as Lillian Gottlieb Kohlhamer, was an American suffragist and peace activist, based in Chicago. She was one of the American delegates to the International Congress of Women held in The Hague in 1915, and at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance conference in Geneva in 1920.
Early life
Lillian Gonzales was born in Buffalo, New York, eldest child of Frank Gonzales and Rosalie Davignon Gonzales.{{Cite news |date=1919-12-27 |title=Gonzales |pages=11 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115870892/gonzales/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} Her father was from Cuba, and her mother was from Québec.
File:Peace_Delegates_on_NOORDAM_18848v.jpg, Jane Addams, Annie E. Molloy, and on the far right edge, Lillian G. Kohlhamer.]]
Career
Kohlhamer was active as a suffragist{{Cite news |date=March 7, 1916 |title=200 Dance at Suffrage Ball |pages=13 |work=Chicago Examiner |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-mar-07-1916-3652833/ |access-date=January 5, 2023 |via=NewspaperArchive.com}}{{Cite news |date=June 6, 1916 |title=Suffragists Entertain Thousands |pages=28 |work=Chicago Examiner |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jun-06-1916-3652847/ |via=NewspaperArchive.com}} and pacifist in Illinois.{{Cite news |date=1917-02-07 |title=City Pacifists Ask Wilson for War Referendum |pages=3 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115870704/city-pacifists-ask-wilson-for-war/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was a member of the Bathing Beaches and Swimming Pools committee of the Chicago Woman's Club.{{Cite book |last=Chicago Woman's Club |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lillian+Kohlhamer&pg=PA85 |title=Annual Announcement of the Chicago Woman's Club |date=1919 |publisher=The Club |pages=85 |language=en}} She also supported Chicago schools superintendent Ella Flagg Young.{{Cite news |date=1913-12-15 |title=Two Foes Assail Mrs. Ella Young |pages=3 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115870512/two-foes-assail-mrs-ella-young/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1914 she withdrew from the Woman's Party of Cook County, citing "too much dissension in the organization".{{Cite news |date=October 5, 1914 |title=Bossism Charged to Women |pages=8 |work=Chicago Examiner |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-05-1914-3652837/ |access-date=January 5, 2023 |via=NewspaperArchive.com}} She was a life member of the Art Institute of Chicago.{{Cite journal |date=September 1923 |title=New Life Members |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_art-institute-of-chicago-bulletin_1923-09_17_6/page/n13/mode/2up?q=%22Mrs.+Robert+W.+Kohlhamer%22 |journal=Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago |volume=17 |issue=6 |pages=13 |via=Internet Archive}}
Kohlhamer represented the Chicago Political Equality League, the Chicago Woman's Club, and the Illinois State Suffrage Association as a delegate to the International Congress of Women in 1915.{{Cite news |date=1915-04-16 |title=Women with Peace Emblem Will Endeavor to End War |pages=7 |work=The Post-Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115871251/women-with-peace-emblem-will-endeavor/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite book |last=Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Congress (1st : 1915 : The Hague) |url=http://archive.org/details/berichtrapportre00womerich |title=Bericht-Rapport-Report |date=1915 |publisher=Amsterdam, International women's committee of permanent peace |others=University of California Libraries |pages=268 |via=Internet Archive}} She was quoted on the execution of Edith Cavell in The New York Times, saying "It is barbarism. Those are wickedly extreme measures to take in this age of the world's history."{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=1915-10-23 |title=Chicago Women Shocked; But Mrs. Grace W. Trout Defends the Execution of Miss Cavell |language=en-US |pages=3 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/10/23/archives/chicago-women-shocked-but-mrs-grace-w-trout-defends-the-execution.html |access-date=2023-01-06 |issn=0362-4331}}
In 1916 Kohlhamer was one of the Illinois suffragists at the national meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in Atlantic City.{{Cite news |date=September 4, 1916 |title=Suffragists Leave to Discuss Plans for Future |pages=15 |work=Chicago Examiner |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-04-1916-3652849/ |access-date=January 5, 2023 |via=NewspaperArchive.com}} She and Margaret Strand represented Illinois suffragists at the 1920 International Woman Suffrage Alliance meeting, held in Geneva.{{Cite news |date=1920-05-20 |title=Delegates Off for Voyage |pages=1 |work=The Mitchell Commercial |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115870974/delegates-off-for-voyage/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite journal |date=October 1920 |title=Letter from Gladys Wilkinson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piZkrsbL-HkC&dq=%22Mrs.+Kohlhammer%22&pg=PA387 |journal=The Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=387}}{{Cite news |date=June 5, 1920 |title=Women of World are Expected at Geneva Meeting |pages=8 |work=Mobile News Item |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jun-05-1920-3652855/ |access-date=January 5, 2023 |via=NewspaperArchive.com}} During the early 1920s she did postwar relief work in Germany and Austria.{{Cite news |date=1922-04-30 |title=Americans in Berlin Attend Fete for Russians |pages=56 |work=New York Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115873988/americans-in-berlin-attend-fete-for/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Lillian Gonzales married businessman Robert W. Kohlhamer in 1894.{{Cite news |date=1894-07-22 |title=Weddings and Receptions |pages=24 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115873642/weddings-and-receptions/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=Newspapers.com}} He died in 1920. She died at her villa near Florence, Italy, in 1929, two weeks after her 59th birthday.{{Cite news |date=1929-11-30 |title=Lillian Kohlhammer Dies in Rome. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/11/30/archives/lillian-kohlhammer-dies-in-rome.html |access-date=2023-01-05 |issn=0362-4331}}
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Category:People from Buffalo, New York
Category:Suffragists from Illinois
Category:American people of Cuban descent
Category:American people of French-Canadian descent
Category:National American Woman Suffrage Association activists