Laura White collection, 1876-1915.

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Laura White collection, 1876-1915.

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Included in the collection is correspondence from Susan Avery and a letter written by Laura Clay. Many pamphlets and booklets are present, generally dealing with the women's suffrage movement but including one relating to the liquor Prohibition movement. There is a collection of newspaper clippings dealing with political and women's suffrage topics, as well as general subjects. There is also a large collection of deeds, receipts, wills, and bonds associated with Laura White and her mother, Sarah White, whose will Laura probated.

.5 cubic ft.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7439240

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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White, Sarah A., 1975-

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White, Laura R.

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Laura White, a native of Ashland, Kentucky, was involved in the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky. She served as chairman of the state Peace Party during the 1910s. Correspondence in the collection suggests she wrote poetry for publication, and that at one time she was employed in an office in Washington, D.C. She was an acquaintance of Susan Look Avery (1817-1915), founder of the Women's Club of Louisville, and Laura Clay, a noted suffragist. From the description of Laura White ...

Avery, Susan Look, 1817-1915.

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Kentucky Equal Rights Association.

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Clay, Laura, 1849-1941

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Suffragist, social reformer. Laura Clay, daughter of emancipationist Cassius M. Clay and his first wife, Mary Jane Warfield Clay, was born at the family estate, White Hall, in 1849. As a result of her parents' divorce and the inequitable property settlement which followed, Miss Clay decided to devote herself to improving "the unworthy position of women." She was a founder of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and was recognized as a national leader in the women's suff...