Papers, 1904-1933.

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Papers, 1904-1933.

Papers of a Gaston County resident, including broadsides (ca. 1917) published by the Equal Suffrage Association of North Carolina and the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc. and correspondence and printed material (1931-33) concerning activities of the League of Women Voters, including its opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. Also contains items relating to politics in North Carolina, to the paternity of Abraham Lincoln, and to Presbyterian missions in Asia and Africa.

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Equal Suffrage Association of North Carolina (1894-1899)

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National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co.

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Puett, Minnie Stowe, 1871-1945

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Minnie Leona Stowe Puett was the daughter of Charles Theodore Stowe, who owned large amounts of land in Gaston County and most of what is now Belmont, N.C. Two of C.T. Stowe's sons, Robert Lee and Samuel Pinckney, were successful businessmen in Belmont. Puett's husband, William Burgess Puett, came to Belmont from Forsyth County, GA, in 1886. He was associated with the Stowe family in a variety of business ventures from the late 1880s and on through the 1920s. William Puett, an incorporator and t...