Guide to the Frances "Franky" McQuigg Stewart Collection

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Guide to the Frances "Franky" McQuigg Stewart Collection

1851-1921

https://wyocomet.wyo.gov/repositories/2/resources/1137

The papers of Frances McQuigg Stewart primarily consist of letters written by Esther Hobart Morris and her sons to Mrs. Stewart.All of the letters are originals, with the exception of those from Archie Slack. Additionally, there is one folder containing copies of photographs and newspaper articles about Robert C. Morris, and one folder containing an inventory of all the correspondence and notes regarding the letters from Archie Slack. Noteworthy samples of correspondence include Robert’s letter, dated March 3, 1870, informing his aunt and uncle of his mother’s appointment as Justice of the Peace for South Pass City, and another letter from Robert, dated March 31, 1900, concerning his efforts to obtain a grant for Andrew Carnegie for the Laramie County Library. Also of interest are the various letterheads that can be found in the collection. The letters in this collection have not been transcribed.

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Wyoming State Archives

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Morris, Esther Hobart, 1814-1902

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Esther Morris, a key figure in Wyoming's woman suffrage movement, was born in Tioga County, New York. In 1841, Morris married Artemus Slack; they had one son. Widowed in 1845, Morris moved to Peru, Illinois, where she married John Morris. In 1869 the family moved to the gold rush camp of South Pass City in the Wyoming Territory. There, Morris helped to influence legislator William H. Bright to introduce a woman suffrage bill, which passed on December 10, 1869, and was signed into law shortly the...