These Frankfort activists below will be honored with a bronze medallion at their gravesites in the Frankfort Cemetery, thanks to the leadership of Mary Ann Burch. At 9:00 AM on August 21, you can participate in a one hour guided tour. Transportation provided via Frankfort Trolley. Register at the Cemetery office, 215 E Main St, Frankfort, KY 40601. Download the (.pdf) brochure of the tour here.
Join the Women's Suffrage Centennial Chorus on Saturday, August 21st in downtown Frankfort to celebrate voting rights for women.
Here's the schedule for the Women's Equality Celebration day in Frankfort - please share.
Rose E. Edwards Sower was an active member of the Franklin County Equal Rights Association, and she held many different offices in the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. In 1916 she was appointed the Kentucky member of the Publicity Committee for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Perhaps it was the charisma of the vision that the new president Burris Jenkins had for a rejuvenated Transylvania College soon after he arrived in 1901. Perhaps it was the long tradition of Lexington's support for women's professional education and higher learning. At any rate, new faculty hires at Transylvania and the newly merged Hamilton Female College in the early 1900s created a unique grouping of women's rights activists.
Sarah Anne McGarvey (3 June 1865 - 20 June 1951) was a professor of piano at Hamilton College. McGarvey had studied piano at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City and was a pupil of Rafael Joseffy there. She also studied with Moritz Moszkowski in Berlin.
Julia Woodworth Connelly (18 August 1857 - 28 July 1948) was Director of Expression and Dramatic Art at Hamilton College in Lexington, Ky. She was recruited by Luella Wilcox St. Clair (later Moss) to Kentucky in 1903 from St. Louis, Missouri. Connelly had been teaching speech and drama at Lindenwood College for Women (now Lindenwood University) and Alma College.
Title: Centennial Celebration
Publication: Kentucky Humanities (Fall 2020)
Table of Contents
Title: "A Tour of Downtown Lexington, KY of Sites Relating to Women's Suffrage History"
Publication: Developed by Randolph Hollingsworth, PhD, in support of Breaking the Bronze Ceiling - an initiative to build a monument commemorating women's history in the Bluegrass. See more at breakingthebronzeceiling.com
Date: [2019]
