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Kate Crane Gartz
KATHERINE ELIZABETH ‘KATE’ CRANE GARTZ (1865-1949) was an American social activist, philanthropist, and author.
She was born in 1865, the eldest daughter and heiress of Richard Teller Crane of Chi...view moreKATHERINE ELIZABETH ‘KATE’ CRANE GARTZ (1865-1949) was an American social activist, philanthropist, and author.
She was born in 1865, the eldest daughter and heiress of Richard Teller Crane of Chicago, founder of Crane Plumbing. With a lifelong interest in Socialism and international politics, Kate Crane Gartz was active in many fields, being one of the founders of the Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena Civil Leage and the American Civil Liberties Union. She built a kindergarten and financed a clinic for the Pasadena Home for the Aged.
She wrote and published several collections of verse, as well as travel books and collections of letters which she wrote in support of civil liberty causes. She held famous salons in her home, with participation from such notables as Albert Einstein and Upton Sinclair.
She married Adolph Frederick Gartz (1861-1930), treasurer at the Crane Brothers Elevator company, in Chicago in 1888. The couple moved to Pasadena, Los Angeles, California following the tragic death of two young daughters in the 1903 Iroquois theater disaster in Chicago. Kate Crane Gartz died on May 13, 1949 and is laid to rest at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena, Los Angeles, CA.view less