Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge (born February 11, 1855 – March 6, 1928) was an American childcare reformer and leading anti-suffrage activist. She founded New York City's Jewell Day Nursery in 1888, showcased it at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and helped create both city and national federations of day nurseries. From 1911 to 1917 she served as founding president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and edited its newspaper, The Woman's Protest. The Hartford-born daughter of Connecticut governor Marshall Jewell, she married copper heir Arthur Murray Dodge, was widowed in 1894, and died in Cannes, France; her 1867–68 letters from Saint Petersburg are held by Vassar College.
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Early life
Born as Josephine Marshall Jewell in Hartford, Connecticut on February 11, 1855. She was the eldest child of Marshall Jewell, who later served as the Governor of Connecticut (1869–1873) and United States Postmaster General (1874–1876), among other government posts. Jewell withdrew from Vassar College without a degree in 1873 to accompany her father to Saint Petersburg, Russia, when he was serving as a diplomat there.
Jewell married Arthur Murray Dodge in 1875; he was the son of William E. Dodge, a well-known copper merchant, Congressman, and philanthropist associated with Phelps Dodge Company. The couple had eight children, six sons and two daughters. Both daughters died in infancy, and one son, Pliny, died in 1889 at the age of five; their sons were Marshall, Murray, A. Douglas, Geoffrey, and Percival.