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Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963

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Doris Stevens was born Dora Caroline Stevens on October 26, 1888, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Henry Henderbourck Stevens (1859-1930) and Caroline D. Koopman Stevens (1863-1932). Doris had an older sister, Alice Stevens Burns (1885-1954), and two younger brothers, Harry E. Stevens (ca.1892-1943) and Ralph G. Stevens (1895-1968). In December 1921, she married lawyer Dudley Field Malone (1882-1950), keeping her name. She filed for divorce in 1927; it was granted in 1929. In 1935, Stevens married journal...

Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974

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Poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field lived in Portland in the early part of the twentieth century. Her poetry, her support of women’s suffrage, and her controversial relationship with Charles Erskine Scott Wood, a Portland cultural icon, made an indelible imprint on the history of Oregon. Field was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 1, 1882, to strict Baptist parents. The family moved to Detroit, where, at the age of eighteen, she married the much older Baptist minister Albert Erghott. T...

Vernon, Mabel

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Mabel Vernon was an active suffragist who participated in the Nevada suffrage campaign in 1914 and 1916 as Anne Martin's assistant, and served as her campaign manager in the 1918 and 1920 senatorial races. Afterward she returned to her work at the National Woman's Party, and became associated with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the People's Mandate to End Wars. From the description of Mabel Vernon papers, 1914-1920. (University of California, Berkeley). Wo...

Martin, Anne, 1875-1951

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Political activist and women's suffrage activist, of Reno, Nev. From the description of Anne Henrietta Martin papers, 1890-1951. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 645644664 Pioneer Nev. suffragist; first woman in Nev. to run for the U.S. Senate (unsuccessfully) in 1918 and 1920. From the description of Anne Martin campaign literature, 1914-1918. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 43378991 Anne Martin was born at Empire...

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Younger, Maud, 1870-1936

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Maud Younger was born Jan. 10, 1870 to a wealthy family in San Francisco, CA. She began her activism work after visiting New York College Settlement House. While in New York City, she joined the New York Waitresses' Union. Younger later worked as a waitress in San Francisco and organized the city's first Waitresses' Union, serving as first president. In 1908 she helped found the San Francisco Wage Earners' Suffrage League. She is well known for giving the memorial keynote at the funeral of Inez ...