This is a list of sketches of notable people, or of their close relatives, drawn by Marguerite Martyn (American journalist, 1878âÂÂ1948) and published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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- Roger Nash Baldwin, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Illinois Congressman-elect William N. Baltz and his daughters
- Bertha Barr, delegate to 1936 Republican National Convention
- Ethel Barrymore, actress
- Alva Belmont, socialite and suffrage benefactor
- Mrs. Perry Belmont (Jessie Ann Robbins), wife of the New York politician and diplomat
- Sarah Bernhardt, actress
- Elizabeth Lucy Bibesco, English writer and socialite
- Amelia Bingham, actress
- Alice Stone Blackwell, suffrage leader and editor
- Emily Newell Blair, writer, suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party leader
- Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffragist
- Anna E. Blount, president of the National Medical Women's Association
- Susan Elizabeth Blow, educator, the "Mother of the Kindergarten"
- 'Round-the-world journalist Nellie Bly
- Film actress Eleanor Boardman
- Lawyer and suffragist Inez Milholland Boissevain
- Catherine Booth-Clibborn of the Salvation Army,
- Louise DeKoven Bowen, financial supporter of suffrage movement
- Mary Carroll Craig Bradford, the only woman delegate at the 1908 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado
- Catherine Breshkovsky, "grandmother of the Russian revolution"
- Helene Hathaway Robison Britton, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals
- Sallie Britton, daughter of James H. Britton, mayor of St. Louis, married to James Mackin, New York state treasurer
- Izetta Jewel Brown, actress, women's rights activist and Democratic politician
- Mary K. Browne, professional tennis player and amateur golfer
- Attorney Mary Baird Bryan and her husband, William Jennings Bryan, two-time presidential candidate, and two grandchildren
- Actress Billie Burke
- Mrs. Adolphus Busch III (Florence McRhea Lambert), first wife of the brewery executive
- Sarah Schuyler Butler, Republican activist
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- S. Parkes Cadman, minister and advice columnist
- Steelmaker Andrew Carnegie
- Anna Ella Carroll, politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist
- Anna Case, opera singer
- Dancer and animal-rights activist Irene Castle, wife of Chicago businessman Frederic McLaughlin
- Dancer Vernon Castle
- Carrie Chapman Catt, suffrage leader
- Espiridiona Cenda, dancer also known as Chiquita
- Cécile Chaminade, French composer
- Percival Chubb, Ethical Cultural Society leader
- Kate Claxton, actress
- Mrs. Cornelius Cole, one of the first three women accredited to a Republican National Convention
- Nancy Cook, suffragist, educator, political organizer, businesswoman
- Phoebe Couzins, lawyer
- Caroline Bartlett Crane, known as "America's housekeeper" for her efforts to improve sanitation
- Raymond Crane, comedian and actor
- Missouri Lieutenant Governor Wallace Crossley
- Mrs. Shelby Cullom (Julia Fisher), wife of the Illinois senator
- Pearl Lenore Curran, author and medium, wife of John H. Curran, Missouri immigration commissioner.
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- Martha P. Falconer, social reformer
- Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate from the Vatican to the United States
- Frank H. Farris, attorney, member of both the Missouri state Senate and its House of Representatives
- Beatrice Farnham, artist and entrepreneur, the wife of John Otto (park ranger)
- Martha Ellis Fischel, social service worker, mother of Edna Fischel Gellhorn, suffragist and reformer
- Judith Ellen Foster, government official
- James F. Fulbright, representative, Missouri Legislature
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- Joe Gans, boxer
- Mary Garden, actress
- Missouri Governor and Mrs. Fred Gardner
- Dancer Adeline Genée
- Edna Fischel Gellhorn (Mrs. George), suffragist and reformer
- James Gibbons, Roman Catholic cardinal
- Artist Charles Dana Gibson
- Irene Langhorne Gibson, philanthropist and Democratic National Convention delegate, the original Gibson Girl
- Catholic Archbishop John J. Glennon
- Emma Goldman, activist and writer
- Samuel Gompers, labor leader
- Edith Kelly Gould, wife of a millionaire Gould
- Edward Howland Robinson Green, the only son of the miser Hetty Green
- Isabella Greenway (Mrs. John C.), Arizona politician
- Minnie J. Grinstead, teacher, Republican politician, and temperance worker
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- Mrs. Herbert S. Hadley (Agnes Lee), wife of Missouri's governor
- Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, English actress, lecturer, and writer
- Anna Dall, daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
- Florence Mabel Harding, wife of President Warren G. Harding
- Grace Carley Harriman, social leader and philanthropist
- Mary Garrett Hay, New York suffragist
- Grace Bryan Hargreaves, daughter of the William Jennings Bryans
- Millicent Hearst, philanthropist and wife of the newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst
- Robert Herrick (novelist)
- Sallie Aley Hert, Republican activist, married to Alvin Tobias Hert
- Dancer and choreographer Gertrude Hoffmann
- Helen B. Houston, wife of David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture
- Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of the Republican activist
- Writer Fannie Hurst
- May Arkwright Hutton, Idaho suffragist
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- Mrs. Albert Bond Lambert, socialite. Her husband was an industrialist, aviator, and golfer.
- Mrs. William Palmer Ladd, wife of the dean of the Berkeley Divinity School
- Jacob M. Lashley, lawyer, debated film censorship
- Judge Ben Lindsey, social reformer
- Ruth Bryan Leavitt, politician and the first woman appointed as a United States ambassador
- Fifi Widener Leidy, daughter of Pennsylvania art collector Joseph E. Widener and wife of New York politician George Eustis Paine
- Lydia Lipkowska, opera singer
- Jack London, writer
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, celebrity and daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
- Daniel A. Lord, American Catholic writer
- Joan Lowell, actress
- Felice Lyne, singer
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- Mrs. Norman E. Mack, wife of the editor and publisher of the Buffalo Daily Times, with their daughter, Norma
- Percy MacKaye, actor, director, playwright
- Elliot Woolfolk Major, Missouri governor, and his wife
- Richard Mansfield, actor
- Lois Marshall, wife of Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall
- Elisabeth Marbury, theatrical and literary agent and producer
- Anne Henrietta Martin, president of the National Woman's Party
- Frederick Townsend Martin, New York society leader and writer
- Ned Martin, dancer and choreographer
- Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo, daughter of President Wilson and wife of William Gibbs McAdoo
- Ellen Wilson McAdoo, daughter of Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo and William Gibbs McAdoo
- Sterling H. McCarty, representative, Missouri Legislature
- Edith Rockefeller McCormick (Mrs. Harold), socialite and opera patron
- Katrina McCormick, Republican activist
- Ruth Hanna McCormick (Mrs. Medill), Republican politician
- Catherine Waugh McCulloch, lawyer and suffragist
- Mary McDowell, social reformer
- George McManus, cartoonist, and Florence Bergere
- "Countess" Candido Mendes de Almeida, wife of the Brazilian politician
- Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, author and suffrage advocate
- Mrs. Lee Meriwether, wife of the author
- Patsy Ruth Miller, motion picture actress
- Tamaki Miura, opera singer
- Anne Tracy Morgan, philanthropist
- Alexander Pollock Moore, diplomat, editor and publisher
- Isabel Morrison, wife of New York politician Timothy Woodruff
- "Czar" Thomas E. Mulvihill Sr., St. Louis excise commissioner
- Actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter Mae Murray
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- Theophile Papin, society leader and "squire of debutantes"
- Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragist
- Charles Henry Parkhurst, social reformer
- Cissy Patterson, journalist and publisher
- Irene Pavloska, opera singer
- Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker (Mrs.Percy), president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs
- Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer, actress and suffragist
- Gifford Pinchot, forester and politician
- Florence Collins Porter, newspaper editor, clubwoman, political campaigner, a Republican
- Ruth Baker Pratt, Republican politician
- Florence Pretz, inventor of the Billiken doll
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- Mrs. James A. Reed (Lura M. Olmsted), wife of the former U.S. senator from Missouri
- Ben Reitman, anarchist and medical doctor
- Agnes Repplier, essayist
- Mrs. Alexander Revell, wife of the Illinois businessman
- The young Florence Wyman Richardson, daughter of the older Florence Wyman Richardson and sister-in-law to Ernest Hemingway
- Lucyle Roberts, rodeo rider
- Margaret Dreier Robins, labor leader
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, writer and lecturer
- Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, Parisian property owner
- Ginger Rogers, actress
- Betsey Cushing Roosevelt
- Kermit Roosevelt, writer and businessman, son of Theodore Roosevelt
- President Theodore Roosevelt, his wife (Edith Roosevelt) and his daughter (Ethel Roosevelt)
- Nellie Tayloe Ross, Republican politician and ex-governor of Wyoming
- Charlotte Rumbold, St. Louis and Cleveland social reformer
- Lillian Russell, the actress
- Patrick John Ryan, Catholic prelate
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- Pauline Sabin, Republican activist opposed to Prohibition
- Katherine Sandwina, circus strongwoman
- Birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger
- Nathaniel Schmidt, educator
- Rose Schneiderman, labor-union executive
- Mrs. Nathan B. Scott, wife of the U.S. senator from West Virginia
- Cecil J. Sharp, who introduced folk dancing to the United States
- Finley Johnson Shepard, businessman-husband of Helen Gould
- Anna Howard Shaw, suffrage leader
- Ruth Hanna Simms, politician, activist and publisher
- Mrs. Al Smith (Catherine Ann Dunn), wife of the New York governor, and their daughter, Emily Smith Warner
- Elizabeth Blackmon Smith, popular author of romantic fiction who wrote under the name Mrs. Harry Pugh Smith
- Evangelist Gipsy Smith and his wife, Annie E. Pennock
- Senator Reed Smoot of Utah
- Ethel Annakin Snowden, British suffragist and pacifist.
- Christine Bradley South of Kentucky, chairman, Woman's Division, Republican National Committee
- Lena Jones Wade Springs, nominated for U.S. vice-president at 1924 Democratic national convention
- Katherine Stinson, aviator
- Rose Pastor Stokes, socialist activist, writer, and feminist
- Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., child prodigy
- Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury (Eva Roberts Cromwell), wife of the investment banker
- Representative William Sulzer of New York and his wife, Clara Rodelheim
- Thamara de Swirsky, Russian dancer[]
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- Mrs. Charles P. Taft, wife of the newspaper publisher, and Louise Taft, their daughter
- Presidential candidate William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft, and their grandchildren
- Lilyan Tashman, actress
- Sara Teasdale, poet
- Ellen Terry, actress
- Luisa Tetrazzini, opera singer
- M. Louise Thomas, educator.
- Socialite Edwine Thornburgh, later married to Englishman Wilfrid Peek
- Genevieve Clark Thomson, suffragist, reporter, Louisiana politician and daughter of Speaker of the House Champ Clark
- Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, a Russian artist, and Princess Troubetzkoy, his American wife
- Grace Wilbur Trout, Illinois suffragist
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- Charlotte Walker, actress
- Eugene Walter, playwright
- Fannie Ward, actress
- Mabel Walker Willebrandt, attorney and Republican activist
- Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas, reputedly the first woman mayor in the nation
- President Woodrow Wilson and his family, Mrs. Wilson, and their daughters, Margaret, Jessie, and Eleanor
- Film actress Claire Windsor
- Jane Frances Winn, who wrote under the name "Frank Fair"
- Wu Tingfang, Chinese ambassador to the United States
- Margaret (Mrs. John) Wyeth of St. Louis, delegate to 1935 Republican National Convention
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References
<small>Citations are to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch microfilm records.</small>