The Lexington Civic League: Agent of Reform, 1900 - The Filson ...

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ing property and developing a model playground for the school.
This project became the focus of its efforts for several years.
The decline of the League's prominence in civic reform dur-
ing its second decade was due largely to Mrs. Breckinridge's
dominance of it. Because much of her time was devoted to the
woman suffrage movement and also because she was frequently
ill from tuberculosis, the League virtually ceased to exist for
much of the time. Although it continued to function to some degree
after her death in 1920, it never regained the momentum
it had experienced during its first decade.4s
42 Lexington Herald, 30 November, 1 December 1912; Madeline McDowell
Breckinridge, "Report of the Civic League For the Season 1912-1913,"
Breckinridge Family Papers, Library of Congress; Hay, "Madeline Mc-
Dowell Breckinridge," 106-115.
"43 Interview, Florence Cantrill with author, 25 March and 25 October
1976.