Papers of Olympia Brown, 1899-1912 (inclusive).

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Papers of Olympia Brown, 1899-1912 (inclusive).

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Collection consists of a pamphlet, 250th Anniversary of the Adoption of Connecticut's First Constitution by John Hooker, n.d., with manuscript notes by Olympia Brown (found in Hooker's 1899 edition of Some Reminiscences of a Long Life which was inscribed to Brown by Isabella Hooker, 1901); typescript review of Brown's Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers, which apparently appeared in the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin in 1912.

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Brown, Olympia, 1835-1926

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Olympia Brown (January 5, 1835 – October 23, 1926) was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an articulate advocate for women's rights and one of the few first generation suffragists who were able to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Olympia Brown was born on January 5, 1835 in Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan. Brown was the oldest of four children. Her parents, Lephia and Asa...

Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907

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Isabella Beecher Hooker, née Isabella Beecher, (born Feb. 22, 1822, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1907, Hartford, Conn.), American suffragist prominent in the fight for women’s rights in the mid- to late 19th century. Isabella Beecher was a daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher and a half sister of Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was educated mainly in schools founded by Catharine. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a law student and descendant of Tho...

Hooker, John, 1816-1901

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William W. Patton was John Hooker's former pastor. From the description of Letters to William W. Patton, 1875. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 26328144 ...