Harrison, Ella, 1859-1933.
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Ella Harrison was born 18 April 1859 in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the youngest of eight children of Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Harrison. She was educated in Carthage, Mo., and following graduation from high school taught in Carthage and in nearby rural schools.
From 1890 to 1900, EH was active in the temperance and woman suffrage movements. She organized temperance unions throughout southwest Missouri for the Missouri Woman's Christian Temperance Union; was one of the early presidents of the Equal Suffrage Association of Missouri; and in the late 1890s worked in the suffrage movement in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Iowa.
At some time EH studied law at the University of Iowa, and she attended Stanford University in 1894. In the early 1900s she worked as a journalist (including a period as war correspondent for the New York American in Mexico in 1911), and homesteaded on a ranch in Arizona.
EH returned to Carthage due to family illness and died there on 15 December 1933.
From the guide to the Papers, 1892-1898, 1933, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
Harrison campaigned for woman suffrage in the south and midwest.
From the description of Papers, 1892-1933 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007371
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