Description: Harriet Taylor Upton was born in 1853 in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1880, her father, Judge Ezra B. Taylor, was elected as a Republican representative to Congress. Harriet accompanied her widowed father to Washington, D.C., where she served as his hostess and companion. In Washington, she met George Upton and they were married in 1884. While living in Washington, Upton became involved in the women's suffrage movement. In 1890, she joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was elected treasurer in 1894, an office she held until 1910. Upton also served as president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association from 1899 to 1908 and again from 1911 to 1920. A life-long member of the Republican Party, Upton became the first woman to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee, in 1920. She ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1926. Harriet Taylor Upton died in 1945 in Pasadena, California, at the age of 90. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC2850
Subjects: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Suffrage--Ohio; Suffragists; Social reformers
Places: Ravenna (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio); Washington (District of Columbia);
 

Description: Harriet Taylor Upton speaking at the Ohio Statehouse before a large crowd, Columbus, Ohio, 1914. Harriet Taylor Upton was born on December 17, 1853, in Ravenna, Ohio. She emerged as a leading women's rights advocate by the early 1890s, and was the first woman to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03862
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Women's rights; Upton, Harriet Taylor; Suffrage--Ohio; Suffragists
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carrie Chapman Catt (left) and Harriet Taylor Upton (right) ride in an automobile with a large bouquet, likely during a parade in New York, 1920. The event may have been in celebration of the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women at the federal level. Catt (1859-1947) was a nationally-known advocate for the suffrage movement, and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. Upton (1853-1945) was an Ohioan who became involved in the women's suffrage movement while living in Washington, D.C. In 1890, she joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was elected treasurer in 1894, an office she held until 1910. Upton also served as president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association from 1899 to 1908 and again from 1911 to 1920. A life-long member of the Republican Party, Upton became the first woman to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee, in 1920. This item comes from the Frances Jennings Casement Papers, a manuscript collection comprised of letters and association records related to the founding and leadership of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. Casement (1840-1928) was born in Painesville, Ohio, and graduated from Painesville Academy and Willoughby Female Seminary. Her father, Charles Casement, supported abolition and women's suffrage and encouraged Frances to be active in social causes. Frances Casement established the Painesville Equal Rights Association in 1883, and shortly after became involved in the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, serving as its president from 1885 to 1888. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS510_B01F77_Catt
Subjects: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Civil Liberties; Suffrage; Suffragists; Social movements;
 

Description: This photograph shows suffragist Harriet Taylor Upton giving a speech in Newbury, Ohio, to a group of women on August 23, 1919. 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 the 19th Amendment was passed, giving women the right to vote in 1920, Upton became the first woman to serve as vice chairman of the National Executive Committee and made an unsuccessful run for Congress. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1532_1499540_038
Subjects: Ohio Women; Presidents and Politics; Civil Liberties; Suffrage; Suffragists; Ohio League of Women Voters; Upton, Harriet Taylor
Places: Newbury (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)