by txwfwomensfdev | Jun 27, 2019 | Count Her In
Jane Yelvington McCallum Born: 1877 in LaVernia, TX Died: 1957 (interred in Austin, TX) Noted For: Among many other “firsts”, suffragist writer and leader Jane McCallum is the longest-serving Secretary of State of Texas (1927-1933). Before the advent of TV and social...
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From The Standard Sentinel in Oklahoma: “Five Thousand Women to Bring One Man Around”. Nonie Mahoney’s enormous petition drive garnered media attention in Texas and beyond. Nonie Boren Mahoney Born: 1868 in Tyler, TX Died: 1926 in Forney, TX Noted For: Nonie...
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This handout from the national suffrage opposition organization, which warned women might place government under “petticoat rule” if they won the right to vote, was widely used by state affiliates. Public domain image. In November 1913, a group of...
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Public domain image. Sophia Alice Callahan Born: 1868 in Sulphur Springs, TX Died: 1894 in Muskogee, Oklahoma Noted For: Sophia Callahan is noted as the author of “Wynema, A Child of the Forest” (1891), thought to be the first novel written by a Native American woman....
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Mary Eleanor Brackenridge Born: 1837 in Indiana Died: 1924 (interred near Edna, TX) Noted For: Businesswoman and philanthropist Eleanor Brackenridge is noted as the founding president of the Woman’s Club of San Antonio, the first woman’s club in Texas to promote...
