Letters, 1870 Mar. 30 & 1873 Jan. 19.

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Letters, 1870 Mar. 30 & 1873 Jan. 19.

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Letters to cousin Lottie in Spencer, N.Y. written from South Pass (1870) and Laramie City (1873), W.T. Tells about his mother's appointment as justice of the peace (the first woman so to serve).

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Morris, Esther Hobart, 1814-1902

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Esther Morris, a key figure in Wyoming's suffrage movement, was born in Tioga County, N.Y. In 1841, Esther Morris married Artemus Slack; they had one son. Widowed in 1845, Morris moved to Peru, Ill., 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 thereafter....

Morris, Robert C., 1851-1921.

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Wyoming pioneer. Moved from Illinois to South Pass City 1869 with parents and brothers. His mother, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris, often considered the mother of women suffrage in Wyoming. From the description of Letters, 1870 Mar. 30 & 1873 Jan. 19. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19018384 ...