Maud Nathan

Maud Nathan (October 20 1862 - December 15 1946)  was an American social worker, labor activist and suffragist for women's right to vote.

She came from a prominent New York family, descended from Gershom Mendes Seixas, minister of New York's Congregation Sherith Israel during the Revolutionary War. Her sister was the author and education activist Annie Nathan Meyer and her cousins the poet Emma Lazarus and Supreme Court Judge Benjamin Cardozo. Her nephew was the author and poet Robert Nathan.

External link

 * Maud Nathan, by by Seymour “Sy” Brody, Jewish Virtual Library