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Womens Rights in Wyoming |
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In 1869 Wyoming Territory became the first to grant full rights to women, Woman Suffrage. |
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The next year Utah followed suit. As a condition of statehood Utah had to remove the rights of it's women. Wyoming refused to do so and said that they would rather not be admitted to the union than remove the rights of their women. After Wyomings admission to the union other western states started granting their women full rights. It wasn't until 1920 that women were granted their rights nationwide. |
Cheyenne, May 6, 1871 Very respectfully, your obedient servant H. Glafcke Secretary of Wyoming Territory. |
Major Herman W. Glafcke - Born: June 20, 1840 - Hamburg Germany - Immigrated 1860 - Occupation Journalist - Died : March 25, 1912 - Secretary of Wyoming Territory May 25, 1870 to May 1, 1873 Wife : Victorine Susan Pollard - Born : January 9, 1848 - New York - Married October 6, 1863 Hartford Connecticut Children : Walter Grant - Born November 6, 1869 Hartford Connecticut - Married 1892 Sallie Sutherland - Printer by trade - Was charged with forgery in Texas for passing forged checks |
Isabella Beecher Hooker (February 22, 1822 – January 25, 1907) was a leader in the women's suffrage movement and an author. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was a daughter of Reverend Lyman Beecher, a noted abolitionist. Among her half brothers and sisters were Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Catharine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was educated at several different schools in Hartford, Connecticut, and Cincinnati, Ohio, founded by her sister, Catharine. In 1841 Isabella married John Hooker, a young law student whom she met at Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, and whose family had founded Hartford. The newlyweds lived in Farmington, Connecticut, for about ten years, then moved back to Hartford and bought a large sum of land. They built houses for themselves and sold lots to prominent Martha Kilbournefigures of their time, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain. They had four children: 1. Thamas Beecher Hooker born & died 1842She became curious about the workings of the law system early in her marriage to John Hooker. Her husband first sparked this curiosity by reading to her from William Blackstone. In these readings it describes the marriage between a man and a woman. It states that "the woman has no separate legal existence". She was further influenced by John Stuart Mill's works such as "The Enfranchisement of Women", his essay, and "The Subjection of Women". In 1868, she helped organize the New England Women's Suffrage Association, and her "Mother's Letters to a Daughter on Woman's Suffrage" was published in Putnam's Magazine. She furthered her involvement with the suffrage movement by organizing the Connecticut Women's Suffrage Association, lobbying the Connecticut legislature for 7 years in favor of a married women's property bill drafted by her husband. In 1871 she organized a convention in Washington, D.C., to present a constitutional amendment for suffrage before Congress. During that time she became involved with free love advocate Victoria Woodhull, who would take her to spiritual gatherings where Isabella became convinced she would "lead a matriarchal government of the world." She even took the side of Woodhull against her own family. Woodhull posted accusations towards Hooker's half-brother, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, accusing him of committing adultery with a woman named Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of Theodore Tilton. Isabella was shunned for the rest of her life by much of her family for her actions. She was unwelcome to attend his funeral sixteen years after the publication of the accusations. Associating herself with Susan B. Anthony and other women's rights advocates, Isabella helped organize the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. She presided over the convention that organized the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and lobbied the Connecticut legislature in favor of a married woman's property bill. Isabella was a prominent speaker at the 1870 convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C. In 1871, she planned and financed a special convention at which a federal constitutional suffrage amendment was drawn up and presented to Congress. For several years she spent much of her time in Washington lobbying and testifying for that amendment. Isabella continued as president of the state suffrage organization until two years before her death. |
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