Ithaca Times-Giving to Suit the Times

Ithaca Times
Women in Tompkins County have always been philanthropists, although few would have called themselves that. Few in the community would have thought about them in that way either, during the 19th century, women were, for the most part, without legal rights or powers. Nevertheless, women brought food to the needy; they nursed the sick; they gave what money they had to religious organizations