Nina E. Allender
Nina Evans Allender was an American artist, cartoonist, and womens rights activist. She studied art in the United States and Europe with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. Allender worked as an organizer, speaker, and campaigner for womens suffrage and was the official cartoonist for the National Womans Partys publications, creating what became known as the Allender Girl.
Nina Evans Allender was born in Auburn, Kansas, in the greater Topeka, Kansas metropolitan area. Her father, David Evans was from Oneida County, New York and moved to Kansas and was a teacher there before becoming superintendent of schools. His mother, Eva Moore, was a teacher at a prairie school. The Evans lived in Washington, D.C. by September 1881 when Eva Evans was working at the Department of the Interior as a clerk in the Land Office. She worked there until August 1902, and she was one of the first women to be employed by the federal government. David Evans worked at the United States Department of the Navy as a clerk and was a poet and short story writer. He died on December 13, 1906 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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