Suffrage Events in St. Lawrence County
As Reported in the Local Papers:
An appendix to a scholarly paper by Rebecca Jewell, SUNY Potsdam, 2008
- December 15th 1870 Susan B. Anthony Lectures @ Potsdam Town Hall.
- March 2nd 1902 Papers Read on "Franchise" @ Universalist Church
- July 21st 1911 Tuesday @ 8 pm Address in favor of suffrage in the Park. Harriet May Mills speaks.
- May 1911 Carrie Chapman Catt Speaks in Canton.
- June 6th 1913 Mrs. Gertrude Nelson, Women's Suffrage Speaker @ 8 pm Universalist Church.
- May 19th 1914 Suffrage Association Convention in Canton @Universalist
Church - 10:30 am. Carrie Chapman Catt speaks in this month and
Year as well.
- June 11th 1914 8 pm Canton Auxiliary of the State Association Opposed to Women Suffrage.
- February 7th 1915 Mrs. Julius Frank gave an address on suffrage for over an hour at Music Hall in Norwood.
- June 22nd 1915 Dr. Anna Howard Shaw speaks in Canton.
- August 18th 1915 Kate Devereux Blake Speaks at Opera House on "White Slavery" And on "Woman Suffrage" on the corner of Elm and Market St.
- September 9th 1915 Frances M. Bjorkman speaks at County Fair on Suffrage.
- October 27th 1915 The Ogdensburg Political Equality Club will host an address on
Suffrage by Beatrice Robinson at the Opera House.
- October 1915 Wednesday evening Mrs. Emma S. DeVoe and John Temple Graves spoke at the opera house at the suffrage mass meeting.
- October 28th 1915 A second meeting concerning suffrage held at the opera house with Congressman Bill and B.F.R. the speakers.
- November 5th 1915 Second Fortnightly Number Play held, "Servant in the House."
- September 13th 1916 Suffrage Club Meeting at the fire station hall last Wednesday. Dr. Helen B. Owens of Ithaca spoke
- February 23rd 1917 February Meeting of the Woman's Club held at Fireman's Hall Tuesday evening. Women discussed gaining the ballot and the NYS Woman Suffrage Party.
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