Wittpenn, Caroline Stevens Alexander (1859–1932)

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Wittpenn, Caroline Stevens Alexander (1859–1932)

American welfare worker. Name variations: Caroline Alexander or Caroline Stevens Alexander; Caroline Bayard Wittpenn. Born Caroline Bayard Stevens, Nov 21, 1859, in Hoboken, NJ; died Dec 4, 1932, in Hoboken; dau. of Edwin Augustus Stevens and Martha Bayard (Dod) Stevens; m. Archibald Alexander (philosophy teacher), June 1879 (sep. c. 1895); H. Otto Wittpenn (mayor of Jersey City, NJ), Jan 6, 1915; children: (1st m.) 1 son.

Assumed presidency of board of managers for Clinton Farms women's reformatory (1913); served as adviser on state welfare issues to NJ governor Woodrow Wilson; was 1st committeewoman for Democratic National Committee in NJ; sat on board of control of New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies as part of reorganization of state's charitable and correctional institutions (1918–26, 1929–32); appointed by President Herbert Hoover to International Prison Commission (1929).

See also Joan N. Burstyn, Caroline Stevens Alexander Wittpenn (Scarecrow, 1990).