Anna Victoria Cunningham was born February 25, 1883 to William Bamford and Alice Delcina Woodward Cunningham near Lindsay, Ontario. She entered the United States from Ontario with her parents when she was approximately eighteen months old. On January 24, 1905, Anna V. Cunningham and Ernest L. Kirk were married at Lakota, ND and they resided at Niagara, ND. Anna joined the North Dakota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) in 1908 and was elected president of the Niagara Union in 1909. At the 21st Annual Convention of W.C.T.U. in 1910, she was appointed Vice President for Nelson County. Anna Kirk wrote articles and letters pertaining to suffrage, politics, and her experiences related to W.C.T.U. which were published in several newspapers. In 1912, Mrs. Kirk was a Progressive Party delegate from Nelson County to the Party's convention in Fargo, ND, which was the first convention women attended as voting delegates in North Dakota. Ernest and Anna Kirk resided at Niagara until 1931, when they moved to a farm near Mallory, MN. Anna died in 1965 and is survived by her three children, Sidney, Harvey, and Dorothy Ann Kirk.
From the description of Papers, 1883-1993. (University of North Dakota). WorldCat record id: 42401961
