Elizabeth J. Hauser letter to Lucile Atcherson, October 12, 1914   Save
Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association Records
Description: Elizabeth J. Hauser of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association wrote this letter on October 12, 1914, to Lucile Atcherson of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Hauser wrote to Atcherson to tell her that the women of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association were appreciative of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association's work on writing and sending a circular letter to the ministers of Ohio. Hauser also requested a report of the meeting that the women of Franklin County had with Mrs. Park and Frau Schwimmer. Hauser ended the letter by expressing her hopes of achieving women's suffrage in Ohio because of good news coming from all over the state. The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1025_B01F04_06
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association; Ohio Woman Suffrage Association;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio);