List of sketches of notable people by Marguerite Martyn

This is a list of sketches of notable people, or of their close relatives, drawn by Marguerite Martyn (American journalist, 1878–1948) and published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.



A

 * Jane Addams, pioneer settlement worker
 * Judge Glendy B. Arnold of the divorce court
 * Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg, University of Illinois trustee
 * Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor, Republican Party activist
 * Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, British politician
 * Rachel Foster Avery, pioneer suffragist

B

 * 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

C

 * 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.

D

 * Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and his wife, Addie Worth Bagley
 * Dwight F. Davis, businessman and founder of the Davis Cup
 * Rose Davis, rodeo rider
 * Thamara de Swirsky, dancer
 * Actress Marie Doro
 * Loren and Dora Doxey, accused of murder
 * Anne Dallas Dudley, suffragist

E

 * Aviator Amelia Earhart
 * Crystal Eastman, feminist and political activist
 * Catherine (Kitty) Elkins, daughter of Senator Stephen Benton Elkins, who wanted to marry Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
 * Effie Ellsler, actress
 * Julian Eltinge, cross-dressing actor

F

 * 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

G

 * 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

H

 * 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

J

 * Charles "Buffalo" Jones, frontiersman, farmer, rancher, hunter, and conservationist
 * Mary Harris Jones, or "Mother" Jones, labor organizer

K

 * Annette Kellerman, athlete who swam the English Channel
 * Florence Kelley, social and political reformer
 * Araminta Cooper Kern, wife of John W. Kern, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, and their son, William
 * Missouri State Senator Thomas Kinney

L

 * 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

M

 * 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

N

 * Alla Nazimova, actress
 * Oscar Nelson, boxer
 * Ione Page Nicoll, worked for repeal of the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment
 * Lillian Nordica, opera singer

O

 * Barbara Blackman O'Neil (Mrs. David), socialite and suffragist
 * Mrs. John E. Osborne (Selena Smith), wife of the governor of Wyoming

P

 * 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

R

 * 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

S

 * 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 []

T

 * 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

U

 * Harriet Taylor Upton, political activist and author, a Republican

V

 * Bernard Vaughan, Roman Catholic priest from the UK
 * Louise Vermilya, mass murderer
 * Bertha Von Suttner, Nobel laureate
 * Rube Waddell, baseball player

W

 * 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

Y

 * Julie Chamberlain Nichols Yates, sculptor; wife of Halsey E. Yates, Army officer
 * Ella Flagg Young, educator
 * Mrs. Lafayette Young, wife of the Iowa newspaper publisher