Loines, Mary Hillard, 1844-1944

Mary Hillard was born in England on May 4, 1844, the daughter of John and Harriet Low Hillard. In 1848 the family moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where MHL lived for the rest of her life. She married Stephen H. Loines; they had four children.

Mary Loines was active in the suffrage movement beginning in 1869, when she served as secretary of the newly-founded Brooklyn Equal Rights Association, and attended the first convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association as a delegate from Brooklyn. She chaired the Committee on Legislation of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, 1899-1905, was president of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association from 1899 until its dissolution in 1918, and attended the organizational meeting of the League of Women Voters. A tablet at the capitol building in Albany honoring the pioneers of the suffrage movement includes her name. She was a founder of the Consumers' League of New York and was active on the Prison Reform Committee.

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