Felton, Rebecca Latimer, 1835-1930

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Dates:
Birth 1835-06-10
Death 1930-01-24
Gender:
Female
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) journalist, temperance and penal reformer, women's political activist, born in DeKalb County Georgia, lived in Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia, after marriage to Dr. William Harrell Felton. Educated at Madison Female College, honorary degree University of Georgia (1922), first woman U.S. Senator.

From the description of Rebecca Latimer Felton papers 1851-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476802

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Subjects:

  • Convict labor
  • Temperance
  • Women
  • Women in the Methodist Church
  • Women journalists
  • Women legislators
  • Women social reformers
  • Women's rights

Occupations:

  • Politicians
  • Writer
  • Teachers
  • Lecturers
  • Reformers
  • Secretaries (clerical workers)
  • Senators, U.S. Congress
  • Slaveholders
  • Suffragists

Places:

  • Decatur, GA, US
  • Atlanta, GA, US
  • GA, US
  • GA, US
  • GA, US

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