Somerville, Nellie Nugent, 1863-1952.

Nellie Nugent Somerville, a pioneer in Mississippi work for women's rights and the first woman to be elected to the state House of Representatives, was active in the Mississippi Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the First Methodist Church of Greenville, the Monteagle Assembly, the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, and women's clubs.

Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895- ), Somerville's daughter, a lawyer and also a representative in the Mississippi Legislature, has been associated with the Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Jackson, Miss., and Washington, D.C., and the National and International Federations of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, the American Association of University Women, Women in World Affairs, and the Assembly of Women's Organizations for National Security. In 1927, she was appointed U.S. Commissioner for the Southern District of Mississippi.

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