Elizabeth J. Hauser letter to Lucile Atcherson, July 28, 1914   Save
Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association Records
Description: On July 28, 1914, Elizabeth J. Hauser, a suffragist who worked for the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, wrote this letter to Lucile Atcherson of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Hauser was sending the official number results following a Franklin County petition event run by the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. 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_15
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association; Ohio Woman Suffrage Association;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio);