Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge

Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge (born Feb. 11, 1855, Hartford, Conn., U.S.—died March 6, 1928, Cannes, France) was an American pioneer in the day nursery movement. Josephine Jewell was of a prominent family. She left Vassar College after three years in 1873 to accompany her father, who had just been appointed U.S. minister to Russia, to St. Petersburg. Returning to the United States in 1874, she married Arthur M. Dodge, a member of a family active...