Martha A. Hardaker
1844–84
American essayist and critical writer. Born in Maine, probably as Martha A. Kalloch, daughter of James Madison Kalloch (1812–92). BA, St Lawrence University, 1872. In 1880, published on the ethics of sex, arguing that women were intellectually inferior to men; continued to promote this view after being appointed to the staff of the Boston Evening Transcript in 1881.
Sources
Boston Transcript, 11 September 1884
Hardaker 1880
Massachusetts, State Census, 1855 (West Roxbury, Ward 3) (s.v. Hardacker; Ancestry.com, accessed 6 November 2020)
Massachusetts, wills and probate records, 1635–1991 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 November 2020)
New Northwest, 1 September 1881, p. 4
United States Federal Census 1850 (Warren, Lincoln, Maine [1]/191a) (s.v. McKallock), 1880 (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 712/9B) (s.v. Hodaker) (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 November 2020)
U.S., Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 November 2020)
Bibliography
Hardaker, Martha A. 1880. The ethics of sex. North American Review 131: 62–74.
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