Isabella Beecher Hooker notes and newspaper clippings, ca. 1887-1905.

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Isabella Beecher Hooker notes and newspaper clippings, ca. 1887-1905.

Notes written by Isabella Beecher Hooker and a collection of newspaper clippings she gathered. Most of the clippings regard her not being admitted to her brother's house at the time of his death.

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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...