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Martha Sharp (Martha Alice Dickie) was born on 25 April, 1905 in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., is an American humanitarian and social justice advocate. Discover Martha Sharp's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

Popular As Martha Alice Dickie
Occupation Social worker · humanitarian
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 25 April 1905
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Date of death 6 December, 1999
Died Place Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Nationality Rhode Island

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Who Is Martha Sharp's Husband?

Her husband is Waitstill Sharp (m. 1927-1954) David H. Cogan (m. 1957)

Family
Parents James Edward Ingham Elizabeth Alice Whelan
Husband Waitstill Sharp (m. 1927-1954) David H. Cogan (m. 1957)
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Children Hastings Sharp (b. 1932) Martha Content Sharp Joukowsky (b. 1937)

Martha Sharp Net Worth

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1905

Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.

Martha Ingham Dickie was born in Providence, Rhode Island on April 25, 1905, the daughter of James Edward Ingham and Elizabeth Alice Whelan.

She graduated from Pembroke College.

1926

In 1926, she continued her studies at Northwestern University Recreation Training School in the field of social work; with her work and studies centered at the Hull House in Chicago.

Her devotion to service and helping others has been cited as the reason she entered the field.

When her training at Northwestern was complete, she accepted the position of Director of Girls’ Work at Hull House, where she acted as social worker to oversee 500 girls.

1927

She married Waitstill Sharp in 1927, and took temporary leave from her work.

1928

In 1928, Waitstill enrolled in a master's program at Harvard Divinity School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

At the same time, Martha began and subsequently completed an M.A. in literature at Radcliffe College in the same community.

1932

They had two children, Hastings (b. 1932) and Martha (b. 1937).

1933

Martha followed Waitstill to Meadville, Pennsylvania, when he was assigned to a small church after his ordination as a Unitarian minister in 1933.

There, she served as a second minister, organizing youth work, educational activities, women's meetings, and church suppers.

As her husband was found, by congregants, to be difficult to talk to, church members would go to Martha "who was always happy to lend an ear".

1937

In 1937 the couple moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts, after Waitstill accepted a position at Wellesley Hills Unitarian Church.

1938

They sent back a report in November 1938, stating that over 20,000 people would need immediate emigration assistance.

1939

The American Unitarian Association (AUA) raised funds, allowing the Sharps to travel to Prague on 4 February 1939 as representatives of the commission for service.

In the same period, Robert Dexter, head of the Department of Social Relations for the executive committee of the AUA, traveled to Europe with Quaker representative Richard Wood to make contacts in Geneva, London, and Paris, and thus to create a network of relief workers and sympathetic politicians across Europe.

On 14 March 1939, the Nazis were quickly advancing on Prague, but the Sharps decided to remain and continue their program, which was the most significant private American effort on behalf of endangered refugees in Czechoslovakia.

In Prague, the Sharps worked closely with members of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) to advance refugees' visa applications to Great Britain and elsewhere.

Along with Waitstill, Martha administered a relief program after seeking advice from Alice Masaryk and other prominent Czechs.

On one occasion, Martha Sharp escorted 35 refugees, ranging from politicians to children whose parents had committed suicide, to Great Britain.

On a different occasion, she arranged for children to leave—in accordance with local narrowing-law—by the "Care of Children from Germany", a British organization (see Kindertransport).

In the summer, the Gestapo closed their offices, but Martha continued until August, and stopped only after learning that she faced arrest.

1940

Under Dexter's leadership, a temporary committee was formed to help endangered refugees, and in May 1940 the organization was officially founded as the Unitarian Service Committee.

Martha and Waitstill Sharp were recruited to work in Czechoslovakia, where a large community of Unitarians were present under the leadership of Norbert Capek.

Later Martha and Waitstill recalled grave misgivings about leaving their children of seven and two, but they were convinced they would be well taken care of living with family friends inside the parsonage.

Their church would be headed by Everett Baker in their absence.

In May 1940, the president of the AUA, Frederick Eliot, and the USC's director, Robert Dexter, asked Martha and Waitstill to go to France as their "ambassadors extraordinary," to which the Sharps agreed.

The plan for a Paris office was canceled because France surrendered to the Nazis that spring.

Instead, the Sharps set up an office in neutral Portugal.

From their base in Lisbon, Martha and Waitstill were able to help a number of Jewish children and several prominent Jewish intellectuals to escape Vichy France, including the German-Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.

Working with Donald Lowrie of the World YMCA, Martha also provided assistance to the families of Czech soldiers who were stranded in France and were hoping to use a sea route for escape.

1954

The couple separated after World War II, and were divorced in 1954.

1957

In 1957, she married David H. Cogan, a wealthy Jewish businessman and inventor, and devoted herself to charitable and humanitarian causes here and abroad, serving on the boards of Hadassah, the Girls Clubs of America, and other nonprofit organizations.

1999

Martha Sharp died in 1999, at the age of 94 in Providence, Rhode Island.

She was survived by her daughter, Martha Sharp Joukowsky, a retired Brown University professor and her son, Waitstill Hastings Sharp Jr.

As the events of early-World War II unfolded in Europe, the Sharps began an "International Relations Club".

Following the Munich Pact which ceded the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) to Germany, Sharp and her husband (alongside many American Unitarians) felt that something must be done to give assistance to the victims of persecution.

2005

In September 2005, Martha and Waitstill Sharp were named by the Yad Vashem organization as "Righteous Among the Nations", the second and third of five Americans to receive this honor.

The subsequent ceremony involved the presentation of a medal and certificate of honor to the Sharps' daughter, Martha Sharp Joukowsky, amidst a large audience that included one of the children that her parents had helped get out of France, Eva Esther Feigl.