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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: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1844. Maine: Married women are granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4] Massachusetts: Married women are granted separate economy. [11] 1845. New York: Married women are granted patent rights. [4]
Kentucky Women Remembered Name Image Birth–Death ... (1872–1920) 1996: ... Born to missionaries in China, Louise Gilman Hutchins was a physician who devoted ...
First National Bank, 10 F. 894 (W.D. Pa. 1882), is one of the very earliest precedent-setting US federal court cases involving common law name change. [126] A woman who had changed her last name to one that was not her husband's original surname was trying to claim control over her inheritance. The court ruled in her favor. This set forth many ...
These women's work paved the way for the passing of the 19th amendment and freedoms for women for years to come. [2] [4] [20] Following Woodhull's, Anthony's, and Stanton's example, other women presented suffrage arguments in government, including Hannah Tracy Cutler and Margaret V. Longley presenting before the Kentucky legislature in 1872. [4 ...
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.
This is a historical list of women from Kentucky who were involved in civil rights activism from 1920 until the 1970s. This was a time period in the twentieth century when the civil rights movement impacted Kentucky's history of women and was enriched by Kentucky women.
Mary Ellen Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky.Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877.