Part 3 - Death of Mary McWhorter

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of an article reporting on the death of Mary McWhorter (spelt here ‘MacWhorter’), a prominent Irish American activist. Mary McWhorter was the long-time president of the Chicago-based Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (23 August 1944). (Volume Page 33)

Mary McWhorter, from Illinois, was a prominent Irish-American campaigner for the republican cause. She was President of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) from 1916-21. During this period the organisation had over 75,000 members. The Ladies AOH was founded in 1894. McWhorter held a meeting with American President Woodrow Wilson to make a case for Irish freedom. She presented a petition with over 600,000 signatures to President Wilson, demanding an Irish Republic following the end of the Great War.