Barney, Nora Stanton Blatch

Barney, Nora Stanton Blatch

▪ American civil engineer and architect
née  Nora Stanton Blatch 
born Sept. 30, 1883, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Eng.
died Jan. 18, 1971, Greenwich, Conn., U.S.

      American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family's tradition of women leaders.

      Nora Stanton Blatch was the daughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch (Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton) and the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Stanton, Elizabeth Cady), both of whom were leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States. After her family relocated to New York City, Blatch studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where in 1905 she became the first woman in the United States to obtain a degree in civil engineering; the same year, she became the first woman to be admitted as a member (with junior status) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She worked for the American Bridge Company in 1905–06 and for the New York City Board of Water Supply. She also took courses in electricity and mathematics at Columbia University so that she could work as a laboratory assistant to Lee De Forest (De Forest, Lee), inventor of the radio vacuum tube, whom she married in 1908. Blatch worked for her husband's company in New Jersey until 1909, when they were separated (they divorced in 1912).

      After returning to New York City, Blatch worked as an assistant engineer and chief draftsman at the Radley Steel Construction Company (1909–12) and for several years as an assistant engineer for the New York Public Service Commission (from 1912). She began working part-time in 1914 as an architect and developer on Long Island. In 1916 she gained notoriety when she filed a lawsuit against the ASCE, which had terminated Blatch's membership when her age passed the limit for junior status; she failed to win reinstatement through the court.

      In addition to her work in civil engineering, Blatch devoted her time to the woman suffrage movement. While studying at Cornell she had founded a suffrage club, and from 1909 to 1917 she campaigned heavily for the cause in New York. She became the president of the Women's Political Union in 1915, succeeding her mother, and edited the organization's Women's Political World. She subsequently participated in the efforts of the National Woman's Party for a federal Equal Rights Amendment.

      In 1919 she married Morgan Barney, a marine architect. They moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1923, and Nora Barney worked as a real estate developer. She remained politically active in her later years, writing such pamphlets as Women as Human Beings (1946).

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