By Liz Almlie, a member of the South Dakota League of Women Voters, and Historic Preservation Specialist with the State Historic Preservation Office. Rose Bower was born on May 16, 1873 in Vermillion, Dakota Territory to a family that was among the earliest settlers, arriving in 1870. The granddaughter of Read more
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn, mother of actress Katharine Hepburn, was an ardent suffragist and head of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Katharine Houghton Hepburn was a part of the 1913 delegation that traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Woodrow Wilson about the question of suffrage. Read more
Lorena King Fairbank, who was a member of the ACA and AAUW for more than 60 years, graduated from the University of Chicago in 1899. She was a member of the delegation led by ACA founder Marion Talbot to the annual meeting in St. Louis in 1904. Fairbank joined ACA at that event. She became […]Read more
Maud Wood Park, née Maud Wood, (born Jan. 25, 1871, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died May 8, 1955, Melrose, Mass.), American suffragist whose lobbying skills and grasp of legislative politics were successfully deployed on behalf of woman suffrage and welfare issues involving women and children. Park attended St. Agnes Read more
by Roxie Olmstead Many heroines from the suffragist movement made the right for women to vote for the first time in 1920 possible after ratification of the 19th Amendment for Equal Rights. This writing relates the story of only one of those women, Anna Kelton Wiley. Born March 8, 1877 in Oakland, California to Read more
A lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to graduating from Cleveland Law School in 1912, Grossman served as a legal secretary for 16 years. In 1918, she was one of the first women to be given membership in the American Bar Association. Grossman was the treasurer of the Woman Suffrage Party of Greater Read more
Felice Cohn was born in Carson City, Nevada and graduated from Washington Law School. Cohn was one Nevada’s first women lawyers, admitted to the bar in 1902 and began practicing law at age 18. She was admitted to the California bar in 1908 and the Supreme Court bar in 1916 as the fourth woman with […]Read more
Gertrude Weil was a lifelong resident of Goldsboro, North Carolina from a prominent family. She never married. Weil was inspired by Jewish teachings of justice and compassion to work for progressive changes such as women’s suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights. Weil worked for women’s suffrage within her state Read more
Schneiderman was born in Savin, Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1890. Her father passed away from meningitis two years after immigrating leaving 4 children and a wife. Schneiderman began work at age 13 to help support her family by being a department store clerk and sewing caps. She assisted with Read more
Stokes was born in Augustova, Poland. At a young age Stokes moved with her mother to England where they lived with family in the slums. Due to the economic situation, Stokes left school at age 8 to begin working. Stokes’ family moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1890. Stokes began working in a cigar sweatshop amongst Read more