Martha Gilmore Robinson

Martha Gilmore Robinson (August 18, 1888 – February 1981) was an American women's rights and civic activist, who founded the Silver Thimble Fund of America, the Woman Citizens' Union, co-founded the Louisiana Landmarks Society, and was president of Louisiana's League of Women Voters.{{cite web |title=Martha Gilmore Robinson (1888-1981) - NOLA Preservation Timeline Person - Tulane School of Architecture |url=http://architecture.tulane.edu/preservation-project/entity/326 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805001655/http://architecture.tulane.edu/preservation-project/entity/326 |archive-date=2015-08-05 |publisher=Tulane University}}

Biography

Robinson was born in New Orleans, on August 18, 1888, the daughter of attorney and U.S. Representative Samuel Louis Gilmore, and his wife, Martha Frazier Nolan Gilmore.{{cite web|url=http://www.knowla.org/entry/854/|title=Martha Gilmore Robinson - Entries - KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118052522/http://www.knowla.org/entry/854/|archive-date=2017-01-18|url-status=dead}} She was educated there at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, and at Sophie Newcomb College, from where she graduated in 1909.{{cite book|author=J. Mark Souther|title=New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8RjmAdbz4MC&pg=PA57|accessdate=16 September 2016|date=1 October 2006|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3193-0|pages=57–58}}

She married Robert Gibson Robinson, a graduate of Princeton, and the owner of a successful lumber business. They had four sons and a daughter.

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Category:H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College alumni

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Category:Women in Louisiana politics

Category:Activists from Louisiana