Adelaide Vera Bishop

  General Notes:

According to the Milwaukee County Historical Society Website:

Mrs. Clarkson was the founder of several civic and cultural organizations. She was the founding member of Women’s Club of Wisconsin and a board member of the Milwaukee Y.W.C.A. Clarkson was an organizer of the Women’s Auxiliary of the State of Historical Society of Wisconsin. She was also the first president of the Milwaukee County Day School Alumni Mothers’ Association. Clarkson was married to Arthur Van Dyke Clarkson, who was the Vice President of the First Wisconsin National Bank.

It’s also noted in daughter Harriet’s obituary that she also taught kindergarten not only in the Milwaukee school system, but also traveled in the early 1900s to the Western United States to teach young Native Americans.

Contributor: Tim Buege

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Adelaide married Arthur Van Dyke Clarkson, son of Robert Guy Clarkson and Caroline Brown Spencer. (Arthur Van Dyke Clarkson was born on 22 Jun 1875 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, died on 22 Dec 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America.)

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