Guide to the Grace Raymond Hebard Collection

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Guide to the Grace Raymond Hebard Collection

1924-1938

https://wyocomet.wyo.gov/repositories/2/resources/844

The bulk of the Grace Raymond Hebard Collection consists of correspondence from and to Ms. Hebard during her tenure at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Most of the correspondence is between Ms. Hebard and various individuals and officers of the Historic Landmarks Commission regarding placement of and/or inscriptions for historic markers in Wyoming. Historic marker subject matter is varied. Examples include markers for Eliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman, Esther Hobart Morris, Captain Benjamin L. Bonneville, ghost towns of Fremont County, the Pony Express and telegraph stations, and the site of the first Territorial Legislature. The collection also includes an article written by Ms. Hebard entitled, "Esther Hobart Morris - Mother of Woman’s Suffrage in Wyoming, December 10, 1869."

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Wyoming State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676703

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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...