Josephine Jewell Dodge

Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge (February 11, 1855 – March 6, 1928) was an American educator, social reformer, and prominent anti-suffragist.

Josephine Jewell left Vassar College without a degree in 1873 to accompany her father to St. Petersburg, Russia, when he was serving as a diplomat there.

[1] Josephine Jewell Dodge sponsored the Virginia Day Nursery in New York City, a facility intended to provide child care to working mothers on the Lower East Side.

[9] A variety of rose was named for Dodge and was grown especially to decorate tables at an anti-suffrage meeting in New York's Hotel Astor.

[14] A trove of Dodge's letters written in the year that Minister Jewell and the family spent in St. Petersburg, Russia are archived in the Special Collections library at Vassar College.

Children and members of Jewell day Nursery, New York City
Headquarters of National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage , led by Josephine Jewell Dodge