Papers of Esther McQuigg Morris in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1869-1935

Bright, William, 1928-2006

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American linguist William O. Bright studied Native American tongues and worked to preserve the language of California's Karuk tribe. Among the first professors of linguistics at UCLA, he taught at the University for 29 years, retiring in 1988. For 21 years, through 1987, he was editor of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America. He wrote more than 200 books, articles and reviews, including several dictionaries of Native American languages that were on t...

Montabe, Marie.

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Marie Montabe was a Wyoming poet, lecturer, and writer. In 1925, she wrote the script for the Gift of the Waters Pageant, presented annually in Thermopolis, Wyoming. In 1927, she married Dr. Harry H. Horton, a Laramie, Wyoming chiropractor and state legislator. She wrote under the names Marie Montabe, Marie Montabe Horton, and Marie Montabe Savaresy. From the description of Marie Montabe papers, 1905-1969. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 2815642...

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...

Montabe, Marie

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Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...

Hebard, Grace Raymond, 1861-1936

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Grace Raymond Hebard taught and served as librarian at the University of Wyoming. From the description of Marking the old Oregon trail in Wyoming, ca. 1915. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 31912428 Collection materials relating to Hebard's career as University of Wyoming professor, librarian, and western historian. Collection includes subject files containing correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts and printed materials concerning places an...

Bright, William H.

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