Daughter of Jehu Amaziah and Cornelia Ewing Van de Graaf Orr.
Pauline was Mistress of English at the Industrial Institute and College of Mississippi from 1885-1913. "I have desired, above everything else, the mental enfranchisement of the girls of Mississippi. I have tried to help them to realize and express themselves." —Pauline Orr, 1913
"Pauline Van de Graaf Orr was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi in 1861. She was a daughter of Jehu A. and Cornelia Van de Graaf Orr. Her father was a member of the Mississippi legislature, a colonel in the Confederate army, and a member of the Confederate Congress. Orr served as a circuit judge for the sixth judicial district from 1869 to 1876 and as a trustee of the University of Mississippi from 1872 to 1905. Pauline Orr's mother was the daughter of William Van de Graaf, a lawyer from Alabama.
From 1881 to 1885, Orr attended the Packer Collegiate Institute of Brooklyn, New York. She later studied comparative literature and philology at the universities of Munich and Zurich (1903-1905). Orr received a master of arts degree from Columbia University in 1912. She became head of the English department of Mississippi Industrial Institute and College (Mississippi State College for Women / Mississippi University for Women) at Columbus in 1885.
While teaching at the II&C, Orr was involved in various literary clubs. She also campaigned for women's suffrage after resigning from her teaching position in 1913. Orr served on the education committee of the Mississippi Women's Suffrage Association in 1913. As vice-president and later president of the association, she organized equal suffrage leagues in Mississippi and represented the state nationally from 1914 to 1917. Orr was also a member of the literature committee of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
Orr bought a house in New York City in 1921, and it became a gathering place for old friends from Mississippi. She lived there with two friends, classicist Miriam Greene Paslay and physician Mary Maxwell Hathorn, and with her nephew, Jerome Harris, assistant rector of St. Ignatius Episcopal Church. Orr worked for the League of Women Voters and literary clubs and managed her financial affairs. Nearly blind by the early 1950s, Orr moved to Springfield Gardens, New Jersey, with her nephew who was now rector of St. John Episcopal Church. Shortly before Orr's death in November of 1955, the chapel and speech building at Mississippi State College for Women were dedicated to her." -LINDSEY-ORR FAMILY PAPERS 1840-1958; n.d.
Pauline was Mistress of English at the Industrial Institute and College of Mississippi from 1885-1913. "I have desired, above everything else, the mental enfranchisement of the girls of Mississippi. I have tried to help them to realize and express themselves." —Pauline Orr, 1913
"Pauline Van de Graaf Orr was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi in 1861. She was a daughter of Jehu A. and Cornelia Van de Graaf Orr. Her father was a member of the Mississippi legislature, a colonel in the Confederate army, and a member of the Confederate Congress. Orr served as a circuit judge for the sixth judicial district from 1869 to 1876 and as a trustee of the University of Mississippi from 1872 to 1905. Pauline Orr's mother was the daughter of William Van de Graaf, a lawyer from Alabama.
From 1881 to 1885, Orr attended the Packer Collegiate Institute of Brooklyn, New York. She later studied comparative literature and philology at the universities of Munich and Zurich (1903-1905). Orr received a master of arts degree from Columbia University in 1912. She became head of the English department of Mississippi Industrial Institute and College (Mississippi State College for Women / Mississippi University for Women) at Columbus in 1885.
While teaching at the II&C, Orr was involved in various literary clubs. She also campaigned for women's suffrage after resigning from her teaching position in 1913. Orr served on the education committee of the Mississippi Women's Suffrage Association in 1913. As vice-president and later president of the association, she organized equal suffrage leagues in Mississippi and represented the state nationally from 1914 to 1917. Orr was also a member of the literature committee of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
Orr bought a house in New York City in 1921, and it became a gathering place for old friends from Mississippi. She lived there with two friends, classicist Miriam Greene Paslay and physician Mary Maxwell Hathorn, and with her nephew, Jerome Harris, assistant rector of St. Ignatius Episcopal Church. Orr worked for the League of Women Voters and literary clubs and managed her financial affairs. Nearly blind by the early 1950s, Orr moved to Springfield Gardens, New Jersey, with her nephew who was now rector of St. John Episcopal Church. Shortly before Orr's death in November of 1955, the chapel and speech building at Mississippi State College for Women were dedicated to her." -LINDSEY-ORR FAMILY PAPERS 1840-1958; n.d.
Daughter of Jehu Amaziah and Cornelia Ewing Van de Graaf Orr.
Pauline was Mistress of English at the Industrial Institute and College of Mississippi from 1885-1913. "I have desired, above everything else, the mental enfranchisement of the girls of Mississippi. I have tried to help them to realize and express themselves." —Pauline Orr, 1913
"Pauline Van de Graaf Orr was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi in 1861. She was a daughter of Jehu A. and Cornelia Van de Graaf Orr. Her father was a member of the Mississippi legislature, a colonel in the Confederate army, and a member of the Confederate Congress. Orr served as a circuit judge for the sixth judicial district from 1869 to 1876 and as a trustee of the University of Mississippi from 1872 to 1905. Pauline Orr's mother was the daughter of William Van de Graaf, a lawyer from Alabama.
From 1881 to 1885, Orr attended the Packer Collegiate Institute of Brooklyn, New York. She later studied comparative literature and philology at the universities of Munich and Zurich (1903-1905). Orr received a master of arts degree from Columbia University in 1912. She became head of the English department of Mississippi Industrial Institute and College (Mississippi State College for Women / Mississippi University for Women) at Columbus in 1885.
While teaching at the II&C, Orr was involved in various literary clubs. She also campaigned for women's suffrage after resigning from her teaching position in 1913. Orr served on the education committee of the Mississippi Women's Suffrage Association in 1913. As vice-president and later president of the association, she organized equal suffrage leagues in Mississippi and represented the state nationally from 1914 to 1917. Orr was also a member of the literature committee of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
Orr bought a house in New York City in 1921, and it became a gathering place for old friends from Mississippi. She lived there with two friends, classicist Miriam Greene Paslay and physician Mary Maxwell Hathorn, and with her nephew, Jerome Harris, assistant rector of St. Ignatius Episcopal Church. Orr worked for the League of Women Voters and literary clubs and managed her financial affairs. Nearly blind by the early 1950s, Orr moved to Springfield Gardens, New Jersey, with her nephew who was now rector of St. John Episcopal Church. Shortly before Orr's death in November of 1955, the chapel and speech building at Mississippi State College for Women were dedicated to her." -LINDSEY-ORR FAMILY PAPERS 1840-1958; n.d.
Pauline was Mistress of English at the Industrial Institute and College of Mississippi from 1885-1913. "I have desired, above everything else, the mental enfranchisement of the girls of Mississippi. I have tried to help them to realize and express themselves." —Pauline Orr, 1913
"Pauline Van de Graaf Orr was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi in 1861. She was a daughter of Jehu A. and Cornelia Van de Graaf Orr. Her father was a member of the Mississippi legislature, a colonel in the Confederate army, and a member of the Confederate Congress. Orr served as a circuit judge for the sixth judicial district from 1869 to 1876 and as a trustee of the University of Mississippi from 1872 to 1905. Pauline Orr's mother was the daughter of William Van de Graaf, a lawyer from Alabama.
From 1881 to 1885, Orr attended the Packer Collegiate Institute of Brooklyn, New York. She later studied comparative literature and philology at the universities of Munich and Zurich (1903-1905). Orr received a master of arts degree from Columbia University in 1912. She became head of the English department of Mississippi Industrial Institute and College (Mississippi State College for Women / Mississippi University for Women) at Columbus in 1885.
While teaching at the II&C, Orr was involved in various literary clubs. She also campaigned for women's suffrage after resigning from her teaching position in 1913. Orr served on the education committee of the Mississippi Women's Suffrage Association in 1913. As vice-president and later president of the association, she organized equal suffrage leagues in Mississippi and represented the state nationally from 1914 to 1917. Orr was also a member of the literature committee of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
Orr bought a house in New York City in 1921, and it became a gathering place for old friends from Mississippi. She lived there with two friends, classicist Miriam Greene Paslay and physician Mary Maxwell Hathorn, and with her nephew, Jerome Harris, assistant rector of St. Ignatius Episcopal Church. Orr worked for the League of Women Voters and literary clubs and managed her financial affairs. Nearly blind by the early 1950s, Orr moved to Springfield Gardens, New Jersey, with her nephew who was now rector of St. John Episcopal Church. Shortly before Orr's death in November of 1955, the chapel and speech building at Mississippi State College for Women were dedicated to her." -LINDSEY-ORR FAMILY PAPERS 1840-1958; n.d.
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