Papers of Helen Brewster Owens, 1867-1948

Ryan, Agnes E., 1878-1954

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Ryan was managing editor of the Woman's Journal, 1910-1917, at which time she and her husband, Henry Bailey Stevens, moved to Durham, NH, where she did freelance writing and pursued her interests in peace, non-violence, and vegetarianism. From the description of Papers, 1904-1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122583279 Agnes Ryan and her husband, Henry Bailey Stevens, living in Durham, N.H, worked in close collaboration in all fields. Th...

National Broadcasting Company

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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower). NBC is one of the Big Three television networks, and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the...

Olcott, Jane Louise, active 1909-1937

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Jane Louise Olcott 1909 (Mrs. McCord) Address in 1937: Stillwater, NJ industrial secretary 1909-1910 Holyoke assistant editor 1910 The Artisan Holyoke teacher 1910-1911 Glencarlyn VA editorial assistant 1912-1913 Washington DC executive secretary 1913-1914 New York State Womans Suffrage Association lecturer 1914-?? Womans Suffrage YWCA work New York NY Married 1920 to Robert Randolph Walters, artist Married ?? McCord Mother was Alice Hedrick 1880 Sister was Margaret Thompson Olcott 1...

Schlingheyde, Clara M., 1872-

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Clara M. Schlingheyde, born July 31, 1872 in San Francisco, taught stenography by day, but "gave every hour that could be spared to the work at [woman suffrage] headquarters, a free will offering." She recruited speakers for fraternal organizations, lodges, and societies in order to wake up the "unawakened" voter. Not all men's societies were welcoming. Clara sent speakers to men's organizations because they were the voters, and asked for twenty minutes during a business session so that one o...

Seabring, Lena S.

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Topliff, Margaret Cameron, 1878-1972

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Margaret Cameron was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 16, 1878. She married George Wilbur Topliff when she was 28 years old. The couple moved to Binghamton, New York where they remained for the rest of their days. George W. Topliff was the manager of the Ansco Company. They lived together in a house located on 100 Henry Street in Binghamton. Margaret Topliff was extremely interested in fighting for women's rights. She played a crucial role in the women's movement as an active suffragist ...

VanDer Cook, Frances

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Welles, Mary Sayre

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Woman's Centennial Congress (New York, N.Y. : 1940)

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The Women's Centennial Congress was organized by Carrie Chapman Catt and held at the Astor Hotel on November 25-27, 1940, to celebrate a century of female progress. The date chosen was 100 years after the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. That convention had been a gathering of abolitionists from around the world. The organisers were surprised when women were sent as a delegates and the initial reaction was to deny them entry. Women including the female delegates were onl...

Woman Suffrage Party of New York City

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The Woman Suffrage Party (WSP) was a New York city political organization dedicated to women's suffrage. It was founded in New York by Carrie Chapman Catt at the Convention of Disfranchised Women in 1909. WSP called itself "a political union of existing equal suffrage organizations in the City of New York." WSP was many New York women's first experience with politics and "contributed directly to the passage of a woman suffrage amendment in New York state." The Woman Suffrage Party started wit...

World Center for Women's Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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World Center for Women's Archives was an organization established by Rosika Schwimmer and Mary Ritter Beard in the hopes of creating an educational collection which women could consult to learn about the history of women. The center was located in the Biltmore Hotel at 41 Park Avenue in New York City. It closed in 1940, but the efforts made to establish a center to collect records encouraged several colleges and universities to begin develop similar archives of women's history. It was one of the...

Yeomans, Mabel Ford, 1887-1954

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McEwan, Katherine L.

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McKinnon, Mary L.

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McNamara, Helen Catherine, active 1906-1924

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Mott, Ruth Woolsey Johnson, 1881-1971

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One of seven directors for the 45th convention of the [New York] State Women's Suffrage Association, a member of the Oswego County Suffrage Club. Ruth Woolsey Johnson was born February 8, 1881, in Oswego, New York, to Edgar Dole Johnson and Isabella Cole. She was educated in Oswego public schools and attended Vassar College in 1890 and Georgetown University Law School in 1915. On December 10, 1902, she married Luther Wright Mott. He was United States Representative from New York's 28th (later...

Mott, Isabella, 1886-

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Activist, New York Branch of the Congressional Union, and National Woman's Party Isabella Mott was born to Lillas Amoret Baker and Frederick Gates Mott on August 28, 1886 in Bouckville, New York, and, by 1910 made her home in Hamilton, New York. Isabella Mott was a significant contributor to the women's suffrage movement, helping women activists fight for what they believed was right. Sometimes criticized as a society woman, Isabella Mott traveled extensively around the country for women's...

National College Equal Suffrage League

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The College Equal Suffrage League (CESL) was an American woman suffrage organization founded in 1900 by Maud Wood Park and Inez Haynes Irwin (nee Gillmore), as a way to attract younger Americans to the women's rights movement. The League spurred the creation of college branches around the country and influenced the actions of other prominent groups such as National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The beginning of the CESL dates to the 1900 NAWSA convention in Washington, D.C. Mau...

Mansfield, Helen C.

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Johnston, Lucy Browne, 1846-1937

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Lucy Browne Johnston (April 7, 1846 – February 17, 1937) was an American social and political reformer and women’s suffrage activist. She was involved with various social movement including Prohibition, women’s enfranchisement, women’s education through the women’s club movement, and the traveling library movement. Johnston was born on April 7, 1846 to Robert and Margaret Browne on a farm in Camden, Ohio. Johnston spent her childhood in Camden, attending and finishing grade school there. Camd...

King, Florence Embrey, 1870-1924

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Florence King (June 22, 1870–June 20, 1924) was the first female patent attorney in America. King earned a B.A. from Mount Morris College in 1891 and a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1895. King became the first woman registered to practice before the U.S. Patent Office in 1897, became the first woman to argue a patent case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922, and became the first woman to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1923 (Crown v. Nye). She also worked ...

Laidlaw, James Lees, 1868-1932

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James Lees Laidlaw (December 19, 1868 – May 9, 1932) was a banker, civic worker, and philanthropist. He supported the League of Nations and women's suffrage movement. He was president of the New York State Men's League for Women's Suffrage, which helped women obtain the right to vote on November 6, 1917, and he was a leader within the national men's organization. His was the only man's name that was placed on memorial tablets in Albany and Washington, D.C. in recognition of individual's efforts ...

Lee, Helen K.

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Lemmi, Elizabeth C.

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Livermore, Leila J.

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Manus, Maye W.

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Funk, Antoinette, 1873-1942

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Antoinette Funk (May 30, 1873 – March 26, 1942) was a lawyer and women's rights advocate during the 20th century. She served as the executive secretary of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was born on May 30, 1873 in Dwight, Illinois as Marie Antoinette Leland. In 1892 she married Charles Thurber Watrous, who died shortly after the marriage. In 1893, she married Isaac Lincoln Funk. Five years later, she attended Illinois Wesleyan Universit...

Fisher, Anna W.

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Hopewell, Florence

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Howorth, Lucy Somerville, 1895-1997

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Lucy Somerville Howorth (July 1, 1895 – August 24, 1997) was an American lawyer, feminist and politician. On August 18, 1917, in the State Capitol gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, she witnessed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified, giving white women the right to vote. This inspired her lifelong fight for the civil rights of minorities and women. She is also known for her New Deal legislative efforts. Somerville was born on July 1, 1895 in Greenville, Miss...

Huffcut, Lillian L.

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Lillian Huffcut was born around the time of the start of the Civil War, about 12 years after women gathered at Seneca Falls, NY, and the push for women's suffrage began. For much of her life, she resided in nearby Binghamton in Broome County (about 100 miles from Seneca Falls). How specifically that influenced her is not documented but can be inferred: her activism helped ensure passage in 1917 of the amendment to the New York State Constitution allowing women to vote. Lillian Huffcut was bor...

Decker, Janet

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Dankin, Pauline M.

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Dean, Addie M.

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Eacker, Helen N., 1851-1919

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Superintendent, Ottawa County (Kansas); Secretary, State Teachers Association; Secretary, State Central Committee of the Progressive Party; Executive Secretary, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association. Helen Eacker was born October 11, 1851, in New York to John and Lydia Keach Eacker. She lived most of her life in Ottawa County, Kansas and died April 20, 1919, near Topeka, Kansas. Prior to living in Kansas, Eacker attended Shimer Seminary in Mt. Carroll, Illinois. She had two sisters, Clara Eacker ...

Denison, Lotta Jones

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Empire State Campaign Committee (New York, NY)

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In 1913, the Empire State Campaign Committee was formed as a coalition of women’s suffrage organisations. Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, the committee aimed to bring together women’s movements from across New York in an effort to win the vote for women there in 1915. Although this referendum was defeated, it was eventually passed two years later. ...

Farrar, Frances, 1855-1926

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Frances Farrar attended Elmira and Vassar Colleges and was active in progressive political organizations by 1912. She assumed the leadership of the Elmira Equal Suffrage League in 1913. She remained an active suffragist through the 1915 and 1917 campaigns. Farrar led an Elmira Suffrage Study Club and attended state suffrage conferences. In addition to her suffrage work, Farrar was an artist and art teacher. She maintained a studio on East Hill where she preserved and manufactured stereopticon sl...

Charter, Flora Gapen, 1879-1916

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Executive Secretary, Political Equality League of Wisconsin; Executive Secretary, New Jersey Equal Suffrage Committee; Business Manager, The Woman Voter Flora Gapen Charter was born in Illinois in 1879 to Dr. Clarke Gapen, a physician, and his wife, Jennie Swanson. The following year the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Flora later attended the University of Wisconsin and worked as a high school mathematics teacher in Milwaukee. Flora Gapen’s interest in women’s suffrage led her to the ...

Gore, Frances Field

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Hamilton, Cora Perry, active 1913

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Angell, Pauline Knickerbocker, 1886-1976

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Born and raised in Waverly, New York, Pauline Knickerbocker Angell played a very important role in the Women's Suffrage movement. She was the leader of Waverly suffragists as well as Tioga County's Suffrage Association president in 1914....

Baldwin, Kati M. S.

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Barton, Belle

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Brewster, Anna Louise , active 1888-1890

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Brewster, Clara Linton, 1850-1933

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A teacher and President of Linn County (Kansas) Women's Suffrage Association. Of Pleasanton, Kansas. Wife of Robert Edward Brewster and mother of Helen Brewster Owens (1881-1968)....

Burrows, Roxana Bradley, 1835-1922

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Roxana Bradley Burrows was the oldest of two children, born May 23, 1853 in Unadilla, New York to Daniel S. Bradley and Emily Stenson Bradley. Before she was three the family moved to Andover, New York where her father gave up farming and developed a successful dry goods business and eventually opened a bank. He was a civic leader serving as Town Clerk and a founder of the local temperance society. The extent of Roxana Burrows' schooling is unknown. The first school in her village was not opened...

Laidlaw, Harriet Burton, 1873-1949

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Harriet (Wright) Burton Laidlaw (December 16, 1873 – January 25, 1949) was an American social reformer and suffragist. She campaigned in support of the Nineteenth Amendment and the United Nations, and was the first female corporate director of Standard & Poor's. Harriet Wright Burton was born in Albany, New York, on December 16, 1873, to George Davidson Burton, a bank cashier, and Alice Davenport Wright. After her father died when she was aged six, her mother took her and her two younger brot...

Cannon, Jennie Curtis, 1851-1929

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Jennie Olive Curtis Cannon (October 15, 1851 – September 8, 1929) was an American suffragist. Cannon was born on October 15, 1851 in Peterboro, New York. She was a daughter of Mary Abigail (née Anderson) Curtis and Gold Tompkins Curtis (1821–1862). Her father was a prominent attorney who gave up his practice during the U.S. Civil War to raise a company, the 5th Minnesota Volunteers to fight, dying in 1862 during his service. Her younger brother was Gold Tompkins Curtis Jr. and she was a re...

Owens, Helen Brewster, 1881-1968

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Helen Brewster Owens (April 2, 1881 – June 6, 1968) was an American suffragist and mathematician. Helen Brewster Owens was born April 2, 1881 in Pleasanton, Kansas to Clara (née Linton) and Robert Edward Brewster. Her mother, who was a teacher and president of the Lincoln County Women's Suffrage Association, prompted Brewster's interest in the movement from a young age. As a girl, she attended the 1893 County Fair with her mother where she helped distribute flyers of Frances Willard. Brews...

Whitehouse, Vira Boarman, 1875-1957

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Vira Boarman Whitehouse (September 16, 1875 – April 11, 1957) was the owner of the Whitehouse Leather Company, a suffragette, and early proponent of birth control. Vira Boarman was born in Abingdon, Virginia, September 16, 1875, to Robert Boarman and Cornelia Terrell. She attended Newcomb College in New Orleans and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She married New York stockbroker James Norman de Rapelye Whitehouse (1858–1949) on April 13, 1898. They had one child, Alice Whitehouse Harjes. ...

Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947

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Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (April 4, 1872 – July 25, 1947) was an American women's rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate, and pioneer in the areas of birth control, sex education, and women's suffrage. She co-founded the National Birth Control League in 1915 together with Jessie Ashley and Clara Gruening Stillman. She founded the Voluntary Parenthood League, served in the National American Women's Suffrage Association, co-founded the Twilight Sleep Association, and wrote a famous pamphle...

Hansl, Eva Elise vom Baur, 1889-1978

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Eva Elise vom Baur Hansl, woman's editor and pioneer in women's radio broadcasting, was born to Elise Urchs and Carl Max vom Baur on 29 Jan 1889 in New York City, the youngest of five daughters and a son. She attended the New York Collegiate Institute and after graduating from Barnard College in 1909 became a member of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations, one of the earliest organizations concerned with employment for women. From 1911-1916 she reported the progress of the early ...

Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944

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Ruth Hanna McCormick (née Ruth Hanna, also known as Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms; March 27, 1880 – December 31, 1944), was an American politician, activist, and publisher. She served one term in the United States House of Representatives, winning an at-large seat in Illinois in 1928. She gave up the chance to run for re-election to seek a United States Senate seat from Illinois. She defeated the incumbent, Senator Charles S. Deneen, in the Republican primary, becoming the first female Senate candi...

Brown, Gertrude Foster, 1867-1956

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Gertrude (Foster) Brown was born in Morrison, Illinois, on July 29, 1867, to Charles Foster and Anna (Drake) Foster. Musical as a child, Brown studied piano at home and then entered the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, graduating in August 1885 after completing the four-year course in two years. She taught piano for a year at a private school in Dayton, Ohio, then studied in Berlin with Xaver Scharwenka and in Paris with Delaborde. She made her professional debut as a pianist with th...

Men's League for Women's Suffrage (United States)

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The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was a society formed in 1907 in London by Henry Brailsford, Charles Corbett, Henry Nevinson, Laurence Housman, C. E. M. Joad, Hugh Franklin, Henry Harben, Gerald Gould, Charles Mansell-Moullin, Israel Zangwill and 32 others. A similar organisation was formed in 1910 in America, by the left-wing writers Max Eastman, Laurence Housman, Henry Nevinson and others to pursue women's suffrage in the United States of America. Organizations were established in spec...

Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

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The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. It was inspired by the United Kingdom's suffragette movement, which Paul and Burns had taken part in. Their continuous campaigning drew attention from congressmen, and in 1914 they were successful in forcing the amendment onto the floor for the first time in decades. Early history Alice Paul created the C...

McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945

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Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch (June 4, 1862 – April 20, 1945) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and reformer. She actively lobbied for women's suffrage at the local, state, and national levels as a leader in the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Chicago Political Equality League, and National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was the first woman elected Justice of the Peace in Illinois. Born in 1862 in Ransomville, New York as Catherine Gouger Waugh, she entered Rockford Colleg...

Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-1919

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New York State Woman Suffrage Association

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Norton, Jessie

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Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

Kansas Equal Suffrage Association (1884-1913)

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Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952

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Painter and co-founder/president of the Société Anonyme, Inc. From the description of Correspondence, 1928-1929. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122577860 Katherine S. Dreier, artist, promoter of modern art, and co-founder of the Société Anonyme. Société Anonyme, organization founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray to promote modern art among the public. From the description of Katherin...

Owens, Frederick William, 1880-

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Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882-

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Caroline Lexow Babcock (b. Feb. 5, 1882, Nyack, NY–d. March 8, 1980, Nyack, NY). The daughter of legislator Clarence Lexow, she graduated Barnard College in 1904. She became executive secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch at the Women's Political Union. Babcock also served as president of the College Equal Suffrage League of New York, executive secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League, served on the executive committee and board of directors of the Birth Control Federation of Americ...

International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Conference

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Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, invited representatives of suffrage societies from other countries to NAWSA's 1902 annual convention in Washington. Representatives from ten countries decide to form a loose international union, which formally became the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the second meeting, held in Berlin two years later. IWSA, which later became the International Alliance of Women, held its "First Quinquennial IWSA Meetin...

Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950

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Educator, peace worker, campaigner for women's rights; active in the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; participant in the Henry Ford Peace Expedition. From the description of Collection, 1911-1950. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 26945072 ...

Women's Political Union of New Jersey

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Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919

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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Born in northern England in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1847, her family left England and immigrated to the United States. In their new country, the Shaws made several moves. After settling in the bustling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, they uprooted again, this time ...

Newson, Mary Frances Winston, 1869-1959.

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Farrington, Anna E. (Anna Eliza), 1839-

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Livermore, Henrietta W. (Henrietta Wells), 1864-

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New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

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An organization opposed to the passage of the women's suffrage amendment in New York State. From the description of Publications collection, 1915-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122683022 The New York Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was an organization created to prevent the passage of the 1915 ballot on Women's Suffrage. From the description of Records, 1839-1917. bulk 1914-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122487074 ...

Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930

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George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War, he entered his father's publishing house, G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright Leag...

Shuler, Nettie Rogers, 1865-1939

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Woodhouse, Chase Going, 1890-1984

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Chase Going Woodhouse (March 3, 1890 – December 12, 1984) was a prominent feminist leader, suffragist, and educator. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Second Congressional District of Connecticut, becoming the second Congresswoman from Connecticut, the first elected as a Democrat, and the first woman born outside the United States in either chamber of the U.S. Congress. Born Chase Going to American parents in Victoria, British Columbia, Cana...

Equal Franchise Society

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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...

Peck, Mary Gray, 1867?-1957

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Borden, Marjorie

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Mills, Harriet May, 1857-1935

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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-l...

Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Nathan, Maud, 1862-

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New York society woman and social reformer, Nathan was president of the New York Consumers' League from 1897 to 1917; vice-president of the National Consumers' League; a suffrage worker; and delegate to international congresses for peace, suffrage, working women, and social betterment. From the description of Papers, 1890-1956 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006754 Mrs. Maud Nathan who send this box of her archives is a distinguished me...

National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Formed in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. From the description of National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 bulk (1890-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979907 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in 1890 with the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA fought for complete political ...

Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940

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Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (b. Jan. 20, 1856, Seneca Falls, NY–d. Nov. 20, 1940, Greenwich, CT) was the daughter of activists Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in mathematics in 1878. She married Harry Blatch and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her daughter, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering. While in England, Blatch conducted a statistical study of rural English working ...

White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...

Howes, Ethel Puffer, 1872-1950

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