Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915
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Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915
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Duniway
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Abigail Scott
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1834-1915
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Duniway, Abigail Jane Scott, 1834-1915
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Abigail Jane Scott
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1834-1915
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Writer, pioneer, editor, and champion of women's suffrage, Abigail Scott Duniway was born in Groveland, Illinois, in 1834. One of her brothers, Harvey Scott, would become the editor of the Oregonian . The Scott family traveled overland to Oregon in 1852, a trip on which Abigail's mother and youngest brother died. The family came first to Oregon City, then settled in Lafayette. Abigail taught school at Eola, and in 1853 she married Benjamin C. Duniway, with whom she had four children. After her husband was incapacitated in an 1862 accident, Duniway supported her family through teaching and a millinery business in Albany, Oregon. After moving to Portland in 1871 she published and edited The new northwest and became Oregon's leading advocate of women's suffrage. She moved to Idaho in 1887 and helped to achieve women's voting rights there in 1896. After returning to Oregon she was instrumental in the passage of Oregon's own women's suffrage bill in 1912. Her writings include the autobiography Path Breaking (1914) and the novel Captain Gray's Company .
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https://viaf.org/viaf/57987484
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83055351
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n83055351
http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=15792
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4667713
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Publishers and publishing
Publishers and publishing
Publishers and publishing
Political campaigns
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Oregon
Oregon National Historic Trail
Overland Journeys to the Northwestern United States
Overland journeys to the Pacific
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Women
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Groveland
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