led to the appointment of the Lexow Committee to investigate conditions, and to the election of a reform mayor in 1894. Although Tammany Hall did publicly clean house, it remained influential on both the political front and in organized crime until the 1950s. Women's suffrage Parkhurst was opposed to women voting. He wrote: "That quality of feminine blatancy which is being at present so extensively advertised here and in England, that disposition toward self-exploitation indulged in by short-haired women and encouraged by long-haired men, is of a sort to chill and then freeze over those masculine impulses that seek restful and satisfying companionship in a member of the opposite sex." Family His first wife, Ellen Bodman, died on May 28, 1921. He married Eleanor Marx on April 18, 1927, in Los Angeles. Death Parkhurst died on September 8, 1933, by sleepwalking off the porch roof in his Ventnor City, New Jersey, home. See also Lexow Committee 1894 to 1895, a major New York State Senate probe into police corruption References Further reading External links Political history of New York City People from Framingham, Massachusetts Activists from Massachusetts 1842 births 1933 deaths American sermon writers American Presbyterian ministers 19th-century Presbyterian ministers American autobiographers Accidental deaths in New Jersey Sleepwalking Accidental deaths from falls People from Ventnor City, New Jersey American social reformers People from Lenox, Massachusetts Anti-crime activists American anti-corruption activists 20th-century Presbyterian ministers Writers from Massachusetts 19th-century American male writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American clergy 19th-century American clergy