Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920

Suffragist, social reformer.

Madeline McDowell was born at Woodlake, Franklin County, Ky., May 20, 1872. She married Desha Breckinridge on November 17, 1898. Mrs. Breckinridge was president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1912-1915, and again in 1919. She was second vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1913-1914. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fayette County Tuberculosis Sanitarium; was a director of the Fayette County Public Health Nursing Association, Fayette County Associated Charities; on the executive committee and as president of the Lexington Civic League; she was vice-president of the Kentucky Child Labor Commission; and chairman for four years of the Legislative Committee of the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs. She died November 25, 1920.