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Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Correspondence Regarding Placing Suffrage on the Ballot

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Title	Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Correspondence Regarding Placing Suffrage on the Ballot
Subject	Civil Liberties Ohio Women Women's suffrage Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Societies and clubs
Place	Napoleon (Ohio) Henry County (Ohio) Warren (Ohio) Trumbull County (Ohio)
Description	Thirteen letters from Ohio Woman Suffrage Association President Harriet Taylor Upton to Vadae G. Meekison of Napoleon, Ohio document the organization's efforts to place women's suffrage on the 1914 ballot. Although Ohio suffrage supporters successfully petitioned to put women's suffrage on the 1914 ballot, the amendment was defeated in the September election. Not until June 16, 1919 did Ohio ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and extend to women the right to vote. The letters are one to three pages each and measure 8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm). Harriet Taylor Upton (1854-1945) was born in Ravenna, Ohio and lived much of her life in Warren, Ohio. She served as treasurer of the National Woman's Suffrage Association and coordinated the business of the association from her home in Warren from 1903 to 1910. In 1918, Upton became the first woman appointed to the Warren board of education. After Congress passed the 19th Amendment in 1920, giving women the right to vote, Upton became the first woman to serve as vice chairman of the National Executive Committee and made an unsuccessful run for Congress. Meekison (1884-1981) was born in West Virginia and lived in Kansas, Michigan, and Indiana before moving to Ohio with her husband George. She received her law degree from Valparaiso (Indiana) University and was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1907. When she began her law practice in Napoleon in 1926, she became one of the first women to practice law in Henry County. She was a critical figure in Ohio's women's suffrage movement because of her work as a speaker, petitioner, and local organizer. Her papers include personal correspondence and form letters from Ohio Suffrage Association President Harriet Taylor Upton and other officers, describing plans for pro-suffrage campaign strategy and lecture tours in Henry County and northwest Ohio.
Creator	Upton, Harriet Taylor, 1853-1945
Date of Original	1913
Collection	Vadae G. Meekison Collection http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms0211.html
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) MS 211
Submitting Institution	Center for Archival Collections--Bowling Green State University
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om1841_2610396_022
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1841_2610396_022.tif
Image Height	3237
Image Width	2513
File Size	2496.033 KB
Full Text	[typed letter, not transcribed]

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