Record book 1851-1886.

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Record book 1851-1886.

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The collection includes one bound volume which contains minutes of the annual and semi-annual conventions, treasurers' reports, and the preamble and constitution of the Woman's Rights Association of Indiana. A document pasted to the volume refers to a meeting of the Richmond (Indiana) Suffrage Society in 1886. Also included is a report concerning the founding of Howard University.

1 bound v. and 4 folders.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7585540

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Way, Amanda M., 1828-1914

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Amanda M. Way (b. July 10, 1828, Randolph, IN–d. Feb. 24, 1914, Whittier, CA) was part of the temperance and women's equal rights movements and a nurse during the Civil War. She was a schoolteacher by profession but began working as a milliner and seamstress to support her family after her father's death in 1849. She joined the Winchester Total Abstinence in 1844 and, in 1854, led a group of Winchester women in what is known as the "whiskey riots" or the "Page Liquor Case." During the Indiana w...

Woman's Rights Association of Indiana.

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Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association.

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The Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association, originally known as the Woman's Rights Association of Indiana, was founded in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, in October 1851. Hannah Hiatt of Winchester, Indiana, was its first president. Amanda M. Way and Mary F. Thomas were also associated with the organization's early history. The association was reorganized as the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869. From the description of Record book 1851-1886. (Indiana Historical Society Lib...

Richmond (Ind.) Woman Suffrage Society.

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Hiatt, Hannah, fl. 1851.

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Thomas, Mary F., fl. 1851.

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