DABBS, Mrs. Ellen Lawson

Ellen Lawson Dabbs, M.D. knew from personal experience how important it was for women to get an education and have a profession, so she accepted leadership positions in various organizations, knowing that her voice would be heard on women's rights and other key issues well beyond Texas.

Some of those organizations were the Texas Woman's Press Association, the Industrial Union, and the Texas Equal Rights Association.

During her career, she also clerked for her husband, merchant Joseph Wilkes Dabbs, presented at conferences, and wrote for the National Economist.

Ellen found time for all of these activities while also being a wife and mother.  

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• Dabbs, Ellen Lawson [Letter from Ellen Lawson Dabbs to John Patterson Osterhout, March 6, 1899], letter, March 6, 1899; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255550/: accessed April 24, 2021), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin College.