Hilles, Elizabeth McShane, 1891-1976.

Suffragist Elizabeth McShane Hilles was born on a farm in Fayette County, Pa., the daughter of Anna Dixon Vail and William McShane. She graduated from Uniontown (Pa.) High School and from Vassar College in 1913. After teaching in Indianapolis, Ind., Hilles joined the campaign for women's suffrage, traveling with college classmate Louise Hall throughout Pennsylvania during the summer of 1915 with a replica of the Liberty Bell mounted on a truck. She later moved to Philadelphia, working as an assistant to Mary H. Ingham, a board member of the Equal Franchise Society. Hilles joined the Congressional Union and was jailed in 1917 for picketing the White House. In 1924 she married, raised a family, and taught high school in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.