Hutchinson, Jennie Phelan (MacMichael)

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, “HUTCHINSON, JENNIE PHELAN (MacMichael),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hutchinson_jennie_phelan_13E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Reformer and suffragist; b. 27 May 1852 in Saint John, N.B., daughter of Robert Hutchinson; m. there 20 June 1878 Charles Edward Hill MacMichael, and they had two sons and a daughter; d. there 14 Dec. 1902.
    • Jennie Hutchinson MacMichael, described as a woman of “exceptional executive ability,” was an early driving force behind the New Brunswick branches of the Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons and the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association. Circles were organized in Saint John in 1888, and by 1891 the Saint John City Union had been formed, with Jennie MacMichael as president. In June 1891 the union opened the King’s Daughters’ Guild for girls, a room where cooking lessons, mothers’ meetings, classes in typewriting and dressmaking, and other “Educational work” took place. An employment bureau was also offered. The services provided by the King’s Daughters soon expanded to include relief projects and meeting immigrant girls who arrived by train or boat at Saint John. MacMichael was instrumental in the guild’s purchase of and relocation to a three-storey headquarters in 1899. When MacMichael died suddenly – while doing relief work during the smallpox epidemic of 1902 – the Jennie MacMichael Circle of the King’s Daughters was formed in Saint John in her memory
  • Great Granddaughter of Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=8232
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/259745370/jane-phelan-macmichael