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'''Jennie Waters Erickson''' (1876-1961) was a probation officer and county superintendent of schools in Arkansas.
==Early life==
Jennie Waters was from Michigan, the daughter of Albert H. Waters, a lumberman, and Mary Canavan Waters. She attended school in [[Benzonia, Michigan]], and trained as a teacher in [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]].<ref name="Citizen">[https://ift.tt/2I727On "A Successful Probation Officer"] ''The Woman Citizen'' (September 20, 1919): 402-403.</ref>
==Career==
Jennie W. Erickson was a dairy farmer and a schoolteacher as a young woman. She also organized a literary club for other farm wives.<ref name="Citizen" /> From 1917<ref>Celia Storey, [https://ift.tt/2puZoFY "Old News: Girl, 12, and Boy, 7, Ride Bumpers from Hot Springs"] ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' (November 13, 2017).</ref> she was chief probation officer of the juvenile court of [[Pulaski County, Arkansas]], in charge of mother's pensions and the county's juvenile detention home in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]].<ref name="Home">[https://ift.tt/2I68st9 "Detention Home is Doing Much Good for Delinquent Children"] ''Arkansas Democrat'' (August 31, 1917): 5. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> She went to Washington to secure federal funding for a girls' reformatory in Arkansas.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2pri6OA "Bill Asks $50,000 for Girls' Home"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (July 29, 1919): 9. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2I728lp "Mrs. Erickson Gets Money for Industrial Home"] ''Arkansas Democrat'' (August 8, 1919): 3. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> Her work, focused on training programs, aesthetic and social supports, was publicized nationally as an example of progressive policy towards deliquency, dependency, and truancy.<ref name="Citizen"/><ref>[https://ift.tt/2puZpd0 "Reviews Probation Work in the County"] 'Arkansas Democrat'' (May 7, 1920): 9. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
Erickson chaired the Committee on Rural Probation of the National Probation Association. Emphasizing the paternal role she saw for probation officers, she declared that "If the rural probation officer serves the county in no other capacity than that of the watchful State parent in protecting the rights of children who are lost to educational and religious training, but who are considered as an industrial factor only, then the probation officer has indeed found a high calling."<ref>Jennie W. Erickson, [https://ift.tt/2I728Sr "Report of the Committee on Rural Probation"] ''Yearbook'' (National Probation Association 1920): 54.</ref>
In 1920, Erickson was appointed superintendent of rural schools for Pulaski County.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2pri7SE "Named Supervisor of Rural Schools"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (July 11, 1920): 5. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> One of her innovations was to arrange for 1000 laying chickens to be given to 1000 girls in the county, along with instruction to raise and care for chicks; the goal was to teach rural girls to produce better poultry and eggs for family nutrition and a supplemental income.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2I729pt "Bank Gives 1,000 Settings of Eggs"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (May 8, 1921): 23. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
Erickson was also counted among Arkansas supporters of women's suffrage,<ref>Bernadette Cahill, [https://ift.tt/2pri8pG ''Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote: The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920''] (University of Arkansas Press 2015): 129. </ref> and helped start a [[settlement movement|settlement house]] in Little Rock in 1915.<ref name="Home" />
==Personal life==
Jennie W. Erickson was married and the mother of daughters Carol (b. 1899) and Mary (b. 1903).<ref name="Home" /> She married again in 1921, to Frank H. Dodge, an attorney, and used the name "Mrs. Jennie E. Dodge" thereafter.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2I3PG5C "Board of Education Congratulates Mrs. Jennie E. Dodge"] ''Little Rock Daily News'' (July 11, 1921): 1. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2pqZG0e "County Superintendent of Schools is a Bride"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (June 11, 1921): 2. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> She died in 1961, aged 84 years; her gravesite is in [[Thompsonville, Michigan]].
==References==
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'''Jennie Waters Erickson''' (1876-1961) was a probation officer and county superintendent of schools in Arkansas.
==Early life==
Jennie Waters was from Michigan, the daughter of Albert H. Waters, a lumberman, and Mary Canavan Waters. She attended school in [[Benzonia, Michigan]], and trained as a teacher in [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]].<ref name="Citizen">[https://ift.tt/2I727On "A Successful Probation Officer"] ''The Woman Citizen'' (September 20, 1919): 402-403.</ref>
==Career==
Jennie W. Erickson was a dairy farmer and a schoolteacher as a young woman. She also organized a literary club for other farm wives.<ref name="Citizen" /> From 1917<ref>Celia Storey, [https://ift.tt/2puZoFY "Old News: Girl, 12, and Boy, 7, Ride Bumpers from Hot Springs"] ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' (November 13, 2017).</ref> she was chief probation officer of the juvenile court of [[Pulaski County, Arkansas]], in charge of mother's pensions and the county's juvenile detention home in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]].<ref name="Home">[https://ift.tt/2I68st9 "Detention Home is Doing Much Good for Delinquent Children"] ''Arkansas Democrat'' (August 31, 1917): 5. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> She went to Washington to secure federal funding for a girls' reformatory in Arkansas.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2pri6OA "Bill Asks $50,000 for Girls' Home"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (July 29, 1919): 9. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2I728lp "Mrs. Erickson Gets Money for Industrial Home"] ''Arkansas Democrat'' (August 8, 1919): 3. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> Her work, focused on training programs, aesthetic and social supports, was publicized nationally as an example of progressive policy towards deliquency, dependency, and truancy.<ref name="Citizen"/><ref>[https://ift.tt/2puZpd0 "Reviews Probation Work in the County"] 'Arkansas Democrat'' (May 7, 1920): 9. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
Erickson chaired the Committee on Rural Probation of the National Probation Association. Emphasizing the paternal role she saw for probation officers, she declared that "If the rural probation officer serves the county in no other capacity than that of the watchful State parent in protecting the rights of children who are lost to educational and religious training, but who are considered as an industrial factor only, then the probation officer has indeed found a high calling."<ref>Jennie W. Erickson, [https://ift.tt/2I728Sr "Report of the Committee on Rural Probation"] ''Yearbook'' (National Probation Association 1920): 54.</ref>
In 1920, Erickson was appointed superintendent of rural schools for Pulaski County.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2pri7SE "Named Supervisor of Rural Schools"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (July 11, 1920): 5. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> One of her innovations was to arrange for 1000 laying chickens to be given to 1000 girls in the county, along with instruction to raise and care for chicks; the goal was to teach rural girls to produce better poultry and eggs for family nutrition and a supplemental income.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2I729pt "Bank Gives 1,000 Settings of Eggs"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (May 8, 1921): 23. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
Erickson was also counted among Arkansas supporters of women's suffrage,<ref>Bernadette Cahill, [https://ift.tt/2pri8pG ''Arkansas Women and the Right to Vote: The Little Rock Campaigns: 1868-1920''] (University of Arkansas Press 2015): 129. </ref> and helped start a [[settlement movement|settlement house]] in Little Rock in 1915.<ref name="Home" />
==Personal life==
Jennie W. Erickson was married and the mother of daughters Carol (b. 1899) and Mary (b. 1903).<ref name="Home" /> She married again in 1921, to Frank H. Dodge, an attorney, and used the name "Mrs. Jennie E. Dodge" thereafter.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2I3PG5C "Board of Education Congratulates Mrs. Jennie E. Dodge"] ''Little Rock Daily News'' (July 11, 1921): 1. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2pqZG0e "County Superintendent of Schools is a Bride"] ''Daily Arkansas Gazette'' (June 11, 1921): 2. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref> She died in 1961, aged 84 years; her gravesite is in [[Thompsonville, Michigan]].
==References==
==External links==
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[[Category:1876 births]]
[[Category:1961 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Pulaski County, Arkansas]]
[[Category:American educators]]
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