Mary Boyle O'Reilly

[4] She was active in the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, the Boston Public Library, the Tuberculosis Society, and the Massachusetts Conference of Charities.

O'Reilly was appointed to the State Prison Commission in Massachusetts in 1907, to oversee children's institutions, including reformatories and orphanages.

Reform writings by O'Reilly included a 1910 exposé on "baby farms" in New Hampshire,[2] and another in 1913, on unsafe working conditions in canneries.

[8][9][10] In 1914 she conducted the first interview with Joseph Caillaux, the French politician, after his wife confessed to killing journalist Gaston Calmette.

In London in 1916 she intervened on the question of Roger Casement's diaries "as the daughter of an Irish patriot" with his solicitor George Gavan Duffy.

[2][17] After the war, she was especially concerned with the way false and lurid stories about German atrocities were circulating, and sought to correct what she called "the Fakes".

[1] Philosopher William Ernest Hocking married Mary's sister, educator Agnes Boyle O'Reilly, co-founder of Shady Hill School.