Dimies T. Stocking Denison
President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs
About Dimies T. Stocking Denison
Lived 1852 – 1940 (aged 87–88). Dimies T. Stocking Denison was an American business executive and clubwoman.
Dimies Tryphena Stocking Denison, or Demeis (, May 7, 1852 – September 2, 1940) was an American businesswoman, philanthropist and clubwoman. She was elected the president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1902.
Career Denison's husband Charles Halbert Denison invented and patented the marginal index system for bookkeeping, known as thumb indexing, which scooped out places in books to enable the reader to turn to any section they want. When her husband died from heart failure in 1911, Denison was also a clubwoman and was vice president of the philanthropic newspaper club the International Sunshine Society, serving under the president Cynthia May Alden. Denison served as vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) for four years, then was elected president of the GFWC for a term of two years from 1902 to 1904. While a member of the GFWC, Denison endorsed Clara Burdette's movement to exclude African American women's organisations from joining the federation.
Death Denison died on September 2, 1940 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.
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President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs
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Dimies T. Stocking Denison was born in 1852.
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Dimies T. Stocking Denison died in 1940.
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Dimies T. Stocking Denison was a business executive and clubwoman.
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Dimies T. Stocking Denison was American.
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