Marion A. McBride
| Marion A. McBride | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marion A. Snow January 5, 1850 Easthampton, Massachusetts |
| Died | September 18, 1909 (aged 59) Arlington Heights, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Williamsburg, Massachusetts |
| Children | James D. McBride |
Marion A. McBride (1850-1909; also spelled MacBride) was an American journalist and clubwoman. She founded several women's press associations, most notably the New England Woman's Press Association. She wrote and lectured on domestic science, and was active in charitable causes and local politics. It was largely due to McBride's activism that the state of Massachusetts began hiring matrons for city police stations and built a separate facility for female inmates in Boston.
Marion A. McBride (née Snow) was born on January 5, 1850, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the only child of Joseph Preston Snow. She was educated in New York, but spent most of her life in the Boston area.
She began her career at the New York Tribune before taking a job in 1880 as a special editorial writer for the Boston Post.. She was a reporter and correspondent for the Boston Post from 1881 to 1885. After leaving the Post she worked as a freelance writer, contributing regularly to the Boston Globe, the New York Herald, the New Orleans Picayune, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Northampton Herald & Post, the Chicago Inter Ocean, and the St. Louis Chronicle. She headed a department of American Art, and wrote articles about domestic science for the Decorator and Furnisher, the New England Magazine, and other periodicals.
At the World Cotton Centennial in 1884, McBride was superintendent of the press for the woman's department. While she was there, working with women of the press from all over the country, she organized the National Woman's Press Association (NWPA). Within two years the NWPA had evolved into the International Woman's Press Association. The organization spawned several local chapters, including the Illinois Woman's Press Association, the Ohio Woman's Press Association, the Southern Woman's Press Association, and the New England Woman's Press Association (NEWPA). McBride initiated the founding of NEWPA in 1885. At the time, newspaper women were still a rarity; one 1887 Boston Globe headline referred to the women of NEWPA as "lady newspaper men."
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