Stow, Marietta Lois Beers, 1830 or 1837-1902

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Marietta Lois Beers was born in New York state about 1835, a daughter of Wakeman Beers and Lois (Louise) Wood. At 19 she married a Cleveland, Ohio, merchant named Bell; he and their only son died within the next five years. After the death of her second husband, San Francisco businessman Joseph Washington Stow (1874), the women's suffrage leader wrote Probate Confiscation (1876) and Probate Chaff (1879), as well as editing the periodical Woman's Herald of Industry (San Francisco), 1881-1884. While a resident of San Francisco, she ran as vice-presidential candidate for the National Equal Rights Party in the 1884 general election. She died in Oakland, California, December 27, 1902. A fuller biography of Stow is available in Sherilyn Cox Bennion's Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth-Century West.

From the description of Mrs. J.W. Stow journal, 1865-1891. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 287227958

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creatorOf Stow, J. W., Mrs., d. 1902. Mrs. J.W. Stow journal, 1865-1891. San Francisco Public Library, Main Library
referencedIn Stow family. Stow family papers, 1847-1872. Sheldon Museum Research Center
referencedIn College of California (1855-1869). Letter book, 1849-1867 Bancroft Library
creatorOf Stow, J. W., Mrs. Commonplace book : San Francisco, Ca., ca. 1887-1900. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library
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associatedWith College of California corporateBody
associatedWith Story, W. W. (William Wetmore), 1819-1895. person
correspondedWith Stow family. family
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San Francisco (Calif.)
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American poetry
Women authors
Feminists
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Active 1887

Active 1900

Death 1902

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