Correspondence, 1939.

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Correspondence, 1939.

1939

Correspondence with Paul Angle, Secretary of the Illinois State Historical Society, and Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Chicago lawyer and woman's suffragette, regarding the Earlville claim of being home to the first woman's suffrage association.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945

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Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch (June 4, 1862 – April 20, 1945) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and reformer. She actively lobbied for women's suffrage at the local, state, and national levels as a leader in the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Chicago Political Equality League, and National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was the first woman elected Justice of the Peace in Illinois. Born in 1862 in Ransomville, New York as Catherine Gouger Waugh, she entered Rockford Colleg...

Smith, J. Ward.

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Illinois Republican Representative from LaSalle County from 1939-1954. Earlville in LaSalle County, is the site of the first organized woman's suffrage association in Illinois. Mrs. Susan Hoxie Richardson, cousin of Susan B. Anthony, was the first president. From the description of Correspondence, 1939. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54901215 ...

Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975

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Author and historian. From the description of Paul M. Angle papers, 1947-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123391606 Paul M. Angle (1900-1975), historian and author, was secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association (1925-1932), Librarian of the Illinois State Historical Library (1932-1945), and Director of the Chicago Historical Society (1945-1965). Angle was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and wrote several books on Lincoln and Illinois history, including The Lincoln Reader (...

Richardson, Susan

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