Claflin, Adelaide Avery, 1846-1931.

Claflin began lecturing on woman suffrage in 1883 and appeared with Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore, and Julia Ward Howe. A Unitarian minister ordained at Meadville, Pa., in 1897, she was on the executive board of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and a member of the Boston Equal Suffrage League. Claflin published articles and editorials in the Boston newspapers and in the Woman's Journal; she was also a member of the Quincy School Committee and the Boston Castilian Club, which promoted interest in Spanish poetry.

Claflin, a Unitarian minister, was active in the woman's suffrage movement in Massachusetts, 1880s-1920s, a member of the Quincy School Committee, a journalist, and a member of the Boston Castilian Club, which promoted interest in Spanish poetry.