Carolyn Verhoeff (1875 - 1975)

Carolyn Parker Verhoeff (12 August 1876 - 27 June 1975) was an American teacher, author and activist. She earned a degree from Vassar College and did post-graduate work at Radcliffe College. A vegetarian, she wrote children's books on the humane treatment of animals. She was the Louisville Woman Suffrage Association's Chair of a Committee on Information, and she represented Louisville in the 1916 convention of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. That year she also participated in Chicago’s suffrage parade. Verhoeff began in 1922 working on behalf of animals - including the welfare of laboratory animals at the University of Louisville - and in 1963 an Animal Care Center was dedicated in her name at the UofL Medical-Dental Research Building.