She was a featured speaker at numerous suffrage rallies and
conventions in New York and her column on suffrage issues appeared regularly in
newspapers across the state from 1912 to 1917.
She was active in the New York State Women’s Suffrage Association and
was a founder of the Hornell Equality League of Self-Supporting Women.
The Syracuse Herald described her speaking manner as “direct
and forceful” that “soon had [crowds] interested.” The Geneva Times said her speech “fairly
bristled with facts.” Her speeches were “enthusiastically received” in Niagara
Falls. She spoke at factories where women worked, at carnivals, at farmers’
picnics, at suffrage conventions and streetside standing in the back of an
automobile.
Her newspaper column on behalf of Up-State Woman Suffrage
Press appeared in Alfred, Arcade, Bath, Batavia, Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo,
Caledonia, Cohocton, Elmira, Geneva, Greenwood, Hammondsport, Montour Falls,
Niagara Falls, Penn Yan, St. Regis, and Tully.
Her contributions were recognized by the National League of
Women Voters in 1931 when her name was inscribed on the New York State Roll of
Honor.
She was born in Hornell, New York in 1863, lived in the city
for most of her life, died there in 1953 and is buried there in Hope Cemetery
with her husband, son, daughter, parents and sisters.
Biography compiled by Historians Rachel Treichler and
Catherine Pierce.
