{"id":1074,"date":"2013-09-06T18:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:06:53","slug":"leah-c-chittenden-1884-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/2013\/09\/06\/leah-c-chittenden-1884-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah C. Chittenden, 1884-1972"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/874\/2013\/10\/leah-chittenden.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2366\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Leah C. Chittenden was an Akron school-teacher who was active in several educational organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Chittenden was a member of the North Hill Literary Club from 1918-1919 and she served on the club&#8217;s advisory board. She held the position of first vice president of the Akron Home and School League in 1925 and she was chairman of the Department of Applied Education.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her educational interests, Chittenden was the recording secretary of the Akron and Summit County Federation of Women&#8217;s Clubs and librarian of the Federation&#8217;s Garden Club. Beginning in 1919, she was supervisor of all the city garden work. In the mid 1920s, Chittenden was on a committee to help organize a speakers bureau for the Community Chest campaign, which was the forerunner of United Way. She attended Church Hill Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Chittenden, who was born in Salem, Ind., lived in Akron for 41 years until retiring to Florida in 1949. She was married to Thomas A. Chittenden, who was a high school teacher. When she died, Chittenden left two sons, Walter and Thomas. The Chittendens resided on Glenwood Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Chittenden died in 1972 in Florida after a long illness. She is buried there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Photo courtesy of the\u00a0<i>Beacon Journal.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">&#8211;Janelle Baltputnis<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Leah C. Chittenden was an Akron school-teacher who was active in several educational organizations. Chittenden was a member of the North Hill Literary Club from 1918-1919 and she served on the club&#8217;s advisory board. She held the position of first vice president of the Akron Home and School League in 1925 and she was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/2013\/09\/06\/leah-c-chittenden-1884-1972\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leah C. Chittenden, 1884-1972&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23502,23506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressive-period-1900-1919","category-twenties-1920-1929"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/womenshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}