Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Etta Haynie Maddox (circa 1860-1933)
MSA SC 3520-12464
First Woman Lawyer admitted to practice in MD and Social Activist

Endnotes:

1.     Hollis Atkinson. Etta Haynie Maddox, Maryland's First Woman Lawyer (Baltimore: Press of the Daily Record Co., 1950), 1-2.
2.     "Is Anxious To Practice Law," The Baltimore Sun, 8 June 1901.
3.     ibid.
4.     ibid.
5.     COURT OF APPEALS (Bar Applications) Etta H. Maddox, April Term 1902 [MSA S112, 2/51/4/4]
6.     Mary Katherine Scheeler. "Etta Haynie Maddox, 1860-1933: Pioneer Lawyer and Suffragist," in Notable Maryland Women (Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1977), 225.
7.     COURT OF APPEALS (Opinions) October Term 1901, #110 [MSA S393-127, 1/65/13/73]
8.     ibid.
9.    "Bars Woman Lawyer," The Baltimore Sun, 22 November 1901.
10.  "Women As Lawyers," The Baltimore Sun, 21 February 1902.
11.   ibid.
12.   ibid.
13.   "Women At The Bar," The Baltimore Sun, 21 February 1902.
14.   GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws) 1902, Chapter 399, p. 566, MdHR 820961.
15.   Atkinson, 11.
16.   "Miss Maddox Tries A Case," The Baltimore Sun, 15 December 1904.
17.   "Women Plead For Votes," The Baltimore Sun, 24 February 1910.
18.   ibid.
19.   ibid.
20.   ibid.
21.   "Samuel Brown-'Mosback'," The Baltimore Sun, 21 January 1916.
22.   ibid.
23.   "Suffragist Protests," The Baltimore Sun, 22 January 1916.
24.   ibid.
25.   Atkinson, 18-19.
26.   Atkinson, 19.

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