Josephine Henry to Laura Clay, Jan. 19th [18]99, Laura Clay Papers, Box 6, folder 19, University of Kentucky Special Collections and Research Center
Title: Letter from Josephine Henry to Laura Clay, Jan. 19th [18]99
Repository: 46m4: Laura Clay Papers, Box 6, folder 19, University of Kentucky Special Collections and Research Center, Lexington, KY
Laura White of Ashland
Laura Rogers White while at University of Michigan (1870-74) - suffragist, architect, educator (at home in Clay County and in Laurel County), Kentucky's chair of the Women's Peace Party chapter, and led the "Peace and Arbitration" committee in the Ky. Equal Rights Association during World War I - from Ashland, Kentucky.
Laura Rogers White, 1852-1929, Laurel County
Laura Rogers White was a well known architect and suffragist from Manchester, Kentucky. She was born on December 11, 1852, the daughter of Daugherty White and Sarah Watts White. She had many accomplishments throughout her career as an architect, and she was able to use her education to achieve those milestones. White attended the University of Michigan from 1871-1874, and received her Bachelors of Science degree with many achievements in, particularly, mathematics.
Laura Clay to Mrs. H.G. Foster, (5 June 1919), Fayette Equal Rights Association records, 1917-1920, 49m30, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Author: Laura Clay
Title: Letter to Mrs. [Elizabeth Dunster Gibson] H.G. Foster, Secretary of Fayette Equal Rights Association, Lexington, Ky.
Publisher: Fayette Equal Rights Association records, 1917-1920, 49m30, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center, Lexington, Ky. [Image of the letter available via ExploreUK.]
Citizens Committee for State Suffrage Amendment is formed
On Wednesday, June 8, 1910, Laura Clay, Elizabeth Dunster Gibson (Mrs. H.G.) Foster, Alice Bronston Oldham, and Elizabeth Burgess McQuaid for the Citizens Committee for State Suffrage Amendment. Led by Clay, who resigned as president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, the Citizens Committee set up headquarters at 130 North Upper Street in Lexington. The other three women resigned from the Fayette County Equal Rights Association.
Elise Bennett Smith, 1917
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith, Richmond, Ky." Kentucky Woman's Journal, Official Organ of the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs. Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1917): 7.
What is the difference between a “suffragist” and a “suffragette”?
KY Woman Suffrage
As the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project steams ahead, we hear this frequently asked question:
What is the difference between a “suffragist” and a “suffragette”?
Jessie Leigh Hutchinson, 1882(?)-1932, Lexington
Submitted for the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project by Esta Tovstiadi, librarian, SUNY at Potsdam, Potsdam N.Y.
Ida Withers Harrison, 1851-1927, Lexington suffragist
Submitted by Mary Hume, student, and Dr. Jennifer Walton-Hanley, faculty, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
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