The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (NCWHS) is leading the effort to develop a National Votes for Women Trail (NVWT), originally as a part of the celebrations commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Image for National Votes for Women Trail marker for Eugenia B. Farmer - located at Trinity Episcopal Church, 326 Madison Avenue, Covington KY @39.0874177,-84.5807303
The marker content states: "Eugenia B. Farmer statewide suffrage leader. Led fight for women's school suffrage in Ky. Helped host state suffrage conventon here in 1897. (William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2021, [marker no.] 113)
In 1912 the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation giving literate women who otherwise met the same requirements as men, the right to vote in school elections. Sixty-one women in forty-eight counties were elected as County Superintendent of Schools in the years before this legislation was passed. Amanda T. Million was the first female superintendent in Kentucky. She was appointed in 1886 to fill her deceased husband’s unexpired term and was subsequently elected to the office twice.
Seventy-six Kentucky women were elected County Superintendent of Schools in the 24-year period from when the first female superintendent in Kentucky was elected until the first election when all eligible Kentucky women could vote in school elections. This document contains a list of these women and the years they served.
Author: Carol Mattingly
Title: African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville
Publication: Arc GIS Story Map, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
Author: Kentucky. Estill County Clerk
Title: Voter Registration Book - Women, West [and East] Irvine, 1919-1920
Publisher: Kentucky State Digital Archives, Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY
Mary Caroline Creegan Roark (1 September 1861 - 1 February 1922) was born just south of Brighton, Iowa, on a family farm in Walnut Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, the daughter of Mary Ann McKee Creegan, of Ohio and Daniel Creegan, a farmer from Virginia.
The second of seven children born to German immigrant parents, Laura Alice Lehman was born on June 1, 1855 in Midway, Kentucky. Her father, David Lehman, established the town’s first lumberyard, was a prolific carpenter who built many of its historic buildings.
