Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, 1843-1925

Elizabeth Morrison (Boynton) Harbert (1845-1925) served as president of the Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (1876-1884), and, after the IWSA became the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association in 1885, served four more one-year terms. She was also president of the Cook County (Illinois) Woman Suffrage Society. In 1877 Harbert became the first editor of "Woman's Kingdom," a section in the Chicago Inter Ocean that covered women's activities, resigning in 1884 because of the anti-Prohibition, anti-suffrage views of the editorial board. Harbert was proprietor and editor of The New Era of Chicago for one year, probably 1885. She later lived in California. Harbert organized the Evanston Woman's Club in 1889 and was president for seven years, was associate president of the World's Unity League, vice-president of the Woman's Civic League of Pasadena, vice-president of the Southern California Woman's Press Association, president of the National Household Economic Association, and a lecturer for suffrage. Further biographical information may be found in Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-15 (1914), and A Woman of the Century (1893).

From the description of Series II of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1870-1939 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008765

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