Rose Parsons
Rose Parsons, born Rose Saltonstall Peabody and sometimes known as Rose Peabody Parsons (1891–1985) was a US woman associated with the formation and management of a number of US women's organisations including the National Council of Women of the United States, the 1947-onwards Women United for United Nations and the 1952-onwards Committee of Correspondence, and the International Council of Women.
Biography[edit]
Rose Peabody was born in 1891, the daughter of Endicott Peabody, an Episcopal priest and Fannie Peabody, his cousin, both descended from Joseph Peabody (1757-1844), one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death, and part of a well-connected family.[1] Endicott Peabody's first cousin was Alice Lee Roosevelt, first wife of American President Theodore Roosevelt.
According to Peabody's sister-in-law, around the time of World War 1 Rose Peabody took a Nurse's Aid course at a Presbyterian Hospital in New York and was then posted to France where, after some general nursing duties, she was appointed to manage an orphanage at Étretat; later she acted as an American Red Cross Searcher for Home Communication Service for Mobile Hospital No. 2, until that unit was disbanded. Again, according to her sister-in-law, she received the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire.[2]
Rose Peabody married Dr. William Barclay Parsons on 22 March 1919. Parsons was a surgeon with whom Peabody had trained at the Presnyterian hospital, and with whom she had served in France.[3]
Parsons's New York Time obituary describes her as being in charge of Red Cross volumnteers in the North Atlantic aea during World War II.[4]
Parsons was the initiator and first chairperson of Women United for United Nations, a clearing house for pro-United Nations stories, which was founded in 1947.[5][6]
She acted as president of the National Council of Women in 1956 and as vice president of the International Council of Women in 1954.[4]
Parsons husband pre-deceased her in 1973. The couple had two daughters.[7] Parsons died on 28 March 1985.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Maclay, Edgar Stanton (1899). A History of American Privateers. p. 408. ISBN 1-58057-331-2. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
- ^ Weld, Sylvia Parsons (1921). War letters, 1917-1919 / Mrs. William Barclay Parsons -- [et al.]. Riverside Press. p. vi.
- ^ "Weds Dr. W. B. Parsons, Jr. - Miss Rose Peabody of Red Cross Marries Captain - Both Cited". The New York Times. 23 March 1919. p. 20.
- ^ a b c "ROSE PEABODY PARSONS". The New York Times. 6 April 1985.
- ^ Laville, Helen (May 1998). "A Woman's Place is in the Cold War": American Women's Organizations and International Relations 1945-1965 (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. p. 410.
- ^ "Records of Women United for United Nations, 1946-1978". Harvard Library. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ^ "WILLIAM PARSONS, SURGEON, 84, DIES". The New York Times. 3 January 1973.