Rosalie Edge

Rosalie Edge was an American women's rights activist and environmentalist who founded the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania. A progressive New York socialite and dedicated suffragist, Rosalie Edge was the first American woman to achieve national acclaim as a conservationist. Born to wealthy parents in New York City, she had a privileged childhood and received a private school education. Rosalie became involved in the women's suffrage movement and later upon returning to the United States, she profoundly helped in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Rosalie Barrow Edge died on November 30, 1962, at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, U.S. Even after more than 50 years of her death, the work of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary' she founded, continues on today.