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Madeline (Madge) McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 – November 25, 1920) was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky. She married Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, which advocated women's rights, and she lived to see the women of Kentucky vote for the first time in the presidential election of 1920.
Kentucky Women Remembered Name Image Birth–Death ... (1872–1920) 1996: ... Born to missionaries in China, Louise Gilman Hutchins was a physician who devoted ...
Maria Thompson Daviess (November 28, 1872 – September 3, 1924) was an American artist and feminist author. She is best known for her popular novels written in the early 20th century, with a "Pollyanna" outlook, as well as several short stories, among them, “Miss Selina Sue and the Soap-Box Babies," "Sue Saunders of Saunders Ridge" and "Some Juniors.".
61st Governor of Kentucky; 49th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and Attorney General of Kentucky Born in Dawson Springs: Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) US Supreme Court Justice [40] Born and reared in Louisville [40] John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875) Vice President of the United States [41] Born just outside Lexington [41] John Y. Brown Jr ...
Laura Clay (February 9, 1849 – June 29, 1941), co-founder and first president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement.
Rajon Rondo has double ties to Kentucky — he is a Louisville native, but also played basketball in the mid-2000s with the University of Kentucky Wildcats.He was even inducted into the UK ...
Todd was born on December 13, 1818 in Lexington, Kentucky, as the fourth of seven children of Robert Smith Todd, a banker, and Elizabeth "Eliza" (Parker) Todd. [1] [2] When she was six, her mother died in childbirth. Two years later, her father married Elizabeth "Betsy" Humphreys and they had nine children together.
[3] She submitted the Kentucky report in Volume 3 of the History of Woman Suffrage: 1876-1885. [5] Clay became the first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman's organization when she was elected president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1883. Mary B. Clay was also the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly ...