Lindsey, Ben B. (Ben Barr), 1869-1943
Person
Biography
Ben Lindsey was a Denver judge and created the first juvenile court in Denver and was an early advocate of a separate juvenile court system in the United States. He worked closely with the Jewish Home for Children (NAC) and the National Council of Jewish Women.
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Staff Members of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1926
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0011.00009
Abstract
Left to right: Dr. Isidor Bronfin, JCRS medical superintendent and tuberculosis specialist; Denver Judge Ben Lindsey of the juvenile court; Dr. Leo Tepley, JCRS physician; Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial lawyer; and Dr. Charles Spivak, physician and founder of the JCRS. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was...
Dates:
circa 1926
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