Correspondence of Marie Remington Wing and Family, dated 1900-1972

No Binding. Very Good. 92 letters, 278 manuscript pages, 58 envelopes, dated 1900-1972, with the bulk of the letters from the 1910s-1940s were written to Marie R. Wing and her family. There is also some minor ephemeral material. Marie Remington Wing (1885-1982) & Family Francis Joseph Wing (1850-1918) was a United States federal judge. Born in North Bloomfield, Ohio, Wing was educated at Phillips Academy, and Harvard University. He read law with Caleb Blodgett at Boston, Judge Buckingham of Newark, and Edward O. Fitch of Ashtabula, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1874 to 1899. He became an assistant United States Attorney of the Northern District of Ohio from 1880 to 1881. He was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas from 1899 to 1901. On January 21, 1901, Wing was nominated by President William McKinley to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 23, 1901, and received his commission the same day. Wing served in that capacity until his resignation, on February 1, 1905. He then returned to private practice in Ohio until his death, in 1918, in Cleveland. Wing married Mary Brackett Remington (1854-1920) of Cleveland September 25, 1878. They had three daughters: Virginia Remington, Marie Remington, and Stephanie Remington. Marie Remington Wing was a successful lawyer, feminist, and social reformer. She was born on 5 November 1885 in Cleveland to federal judge Francis J. Wing and Mary Brackett Remington. She prepared for college at Miss Mittleberger's School for Young Ladies, and attended Bryn Mawr College until her father's financial reverses forced her to return to Cleveland, where she began working with the YWCA as both industrial and financial secretary. She also served as its general secretary in New York and sat on the board of trustees. The school that Marie attended, ""Miss Mittleberger's School"" (c1877-1908), was one of Cleveland's most prominent schools for young women. The school had its beginnings in Miss Augusta Mittleberger's home, where she began conducting private classes for young women. With the death of her father in 1877, Miss Mittleberger moved to larger quarters. In 1881 she was offered a house owned by John D. Rockefeller for her school. Miss Mittleberger's school achieved a national reputation and boarded students enrolled from other areas of Ohio and nearby states, including the daughters of presidents Hayes and Garfield. Marie R. Wing came from a distinguished Cleveland family, from which she drew her enthusiasm and her sense of social commitment. George Clary Wing (1848-1929), Marie's uncle, was an author and Harvard-educated attorney who worked in several United States government departments before returning to Cleveland in 1884 to join his brother's law practice. This brother was Francis Joseph Wing (1850-1918), Marie's father and a judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. He later became a judge in the United States District Court for Northern Ohio, but resigned in 1905. Marie's older sister, Virginia Remington Wing (1881-1951), was, like Marie, a social activist. She began her career with the Red Cross, serving in both Washington and St. Louis. In 1923, she came to Cleveland in order to take a position as the executive secretary of both the Cleveland Anti-Tuberculosis League and of the Cleveland Health Council's Health Education Department. In 1929 and 1933 she added to her responsibilities the secretary-ships of the Brush Foundation and the Sight Saving Council. Marie Wing's niece Stephanie Ralph (1914-1969) was a school psychologist whose research was published in nationally-prominent journals, and whose husband Paul Ralph was even better known in the academic world. In 1948, he won an award for his photographs of microscopic organisms. In 1922 Marie R. Wing lef