Abigail Scott Duniway papers, 1852-1992.

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Abigail Scott Duniway papers, 1852-1992.

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Collection consists primarily of personal materials and correspondence pertaining to suffrage. The Family correspondence consists of letters to and from Duniway. The collection contains the 1852 overland journal which Duniway kept as her family crossed the plains to Oregon, as well as a photocopied 1853 revision and typed galley proofs. Business records of Covered wagon women, a book containing her diary, are also included. The Manuscripts series includes many of Duniway's writings, including notes, speeches, poems, serialized novels, rough and final copies of novel manuscripts, stories, pamphlets, and a few copies of the New Northwest. Manuscripts by others include Clyde Duniway's "My memories of Abigail Scott Duniway." The Business papers include deeds, public records, and trust account ledgers. The Miscellany category includes scrapbooks compiled by Duniway.

7 linear ft. (14 containers)

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Duniway, C. A. (Clyde Augustus), 1866-1944

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Clyde Augustus Duniway was born in 1866 in Albany, Oregon, to Benjamin Charles Duniway and Abigail Jane Scott. Duniway received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1892 and an A.M. in 1894 and a Ph.D. in 1897 in Political Science from Harvard. An expanded version of his dissertation was published in 1906 as The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts . He taught for eleven years at Stanford University before serving as president of the University of Montana in Missoula f...

DeVoe, Emma Smith, 1858-1927.

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Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915

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A writer, newspaper publisher, and promoter for women's rights, Abigail Scott Duniway was Oregon's strongest voice for the cause of woman's suffrage. Born Abigail Jane Scott in 1834, she left Illinois for Oregon with her family in 1852, where she met her husband Ben Duniway. The couple settled in Yamhill County, but because of financial difficulties and Ben's permanent injury in a wagon accident, they had to sell their land. The couple moved to nearby Lafayette, where Abigail taught school and, ...

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...