Clara Cahill Park

Clara Cahill Park (July 2, 1868 – October 28, 1951) was an American social worker, artist, feminist, and writer.

Her father was an abolitionist lawyer, a Union Army veteran, and a judge on the Michigan Supreme Court.

"[7][8] The campaign was successful and a provision for widows' pensions became state law in 1913.

[15] In 1930s she gave lectures,[16] and exhibited pastel portraits she made in her world travels, at exhibits in Hawaii, Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil, and across the United States.

[7] She was effectively a single parent for long stretches, as her husband lived in another state to teach or traveled abroad for study; she found the arrangement difficult, writing to her husband that "I have been imposed on, not intentionally, but carelessly and veritably".