Kate Heffelfinger

Kate Heffelfinger, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, was an art student and NWP activist. She was sentenced to six months in District Jail for picketing Oct. 15, 1917; another month was later added to her sentence for a previous offense. In August 1918, she was sentenced to 15 days for participating in a Lafayette Square meeting; in January 1919 she was sentenced to five days for participation in a watchfire demonstration.To the left is a photograph of a woman escorting Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, outside near a car, after release from Occoquan Prison, ca. 1917.