Leonidus Rutledge "Leon" Whipple

• BIRTH: 19 Sep 1882, St. Louis, Missouri
• DEATH: AFT 1942, poss, Manhattan, New York, New York
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• MARRIAGE: BEF 1920

1.  James Rutledge Whipple (10 Dec 1921 - 4 Dec 1992)

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|--Leonidus Rutledge "Leon" Whipple 
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|_Henrietta "Nettie" Hanley _|
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Notes

!SOURCE: "Descendants of James W. Whipple," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 6 Jan 2007. Cites/notes the following:

• World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (birth)
• U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (birth)
• Date born 2: July 1883, MO (Source: 1900 Census, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 60.)
• Census 1: January 11, 1920, Age 37, journalist, father b. VA, mother b. MO, living dist. 3 Manhattan, New York, New York w/wife Margaret 27 (artist) (Source: 1920 Census, Manhattan, New York, New York, 102.)
• Census 2: 1930, Age 47, b. MO, living Manhattan, New York, NY w/wife Catherine 35 (2nd wife or another name for Margaret ?) & w/son James R. 8 (Source: 1930 Census, Manhattan, New York, NY, 11A R1546.)
• Military service 1: September 11, 1918, Age 36, journalist, nearest rel. mother Mrs. Nettie H. Whipple, reg. for WWI draft in Manhattan, NY (Source: World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.)
• Military service 2: 1942, Reg. for WWII draft, residing NYC (Source: U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.)

!SOURCE: Email from Katharine Whipple (email hidden) to Blaine Whipple, 4 Sep 2008: "Leon Rutledge Whipple [was] journalism professor at NYU and one of the founders of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)."

!SOURCE: Email from Blaine Whipple to Katharine Whipple, 5 Sep 2008. Cites Vol. 10 of The Samuel Gompers Papers:

Leon is on page 484 and in note 485. The volume is about the American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18 and covers a period of intense debate over the meaning of patriotism, the limits of individual freedom, and the value of democracy. Primary documents chart the evolution of a new relation with the federal government and the rise of labor-adjustment boards that supported the eight-hour day, equal pay for equal work, and labor's right to organize. And they chronicle Gompers' wartime trip to Europe to bolster morale and his ongoing efforts to strengthen international labor ties. Other highlights include the Bisbee deportations, the stockyards labor organizing campaign, the IWW's free-speech movement, the Tom Mooney case, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Saint Louis Race Riot, and Gompers' controversial agreement to forgo labor's fight for the "closed" union shop for the duration of the war.

I would imagine the information relates to his ACLU activities. You may also want to check the history of the U. of Virginia for this same period. I believe your grandfather was on the faculty and was dismissed. Why, I don't know. But again, I am assuming it may be because of his ACLU activities.

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