of their educational committee and a delegate to the International Council of Women, held in Switzerland in 1908. She was head of the Ohio Woman's Suffrage Association from 1908 to 1911, and president of Toledo Council of Women, as well as president of the Toledo Federation of Women's Clubs. Personal life In 1884, Pauline Perlmutter married Joseph Steinem, a German-born businessman who was living in Toledo, Ohio. They had four sons together, Edgar, Jesse, Clarence, and Leo; Edgar was born in Germany in 1885; the younger three sons were born in Ohio. She was widowed when Joseph died in 1929. Pauline Perlmutter Steinem died in 1940, aged 75 years, in Toledo. Her son, Leo Steinem, was the father of American feminist Gloria Steinem, and of lawyer and gem expert Susanne Steinem Patch. References External links 1864 births 1940 deaths American people of German-Jewish descent American people of Polish-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent American Reform Jews American suffragists American Theosophists American women educators Educators from Ohio German Reform Jews Jewish socialists People from Toledo, Ohio Polish Reform Jews Prussian emigrants to the United States Reform anti-Zionists Reform Jewish feminists