Lady in Law

1950 biography by American author Darragh Aldrich on Mabeth Hurd (1869-1961), a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1923-1945 and one Minnesota’s first four woman legislators. Mabeth Hurd was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1869. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, followed by the Massachusetts Art School in Boston, and studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, France. When she returned to the United States in 1891, she moved to Minneapolis and accepted a job