Sarah Catherine Fraley Hallowell

[3] Her mother was Jane Chapman Cresson Fraley and her siblings were Elizabeth, Mercy and Joseph.

The family lived in Germantown and were on Philadelphia's Social Register.

[5] She was related by marriage to art curator and exhibition organizer Sarah Tyson Hallowell.

[8] The New Century Club was a woman's organization that was established in 1877[9] to improve the lives of women.

Rather than portraying the opinions of the "radical" viewpoints of some of its members, the Hallowell, its first president, said that they only "whispered... [the] logic of suffrage."