(created page from sixth star material) |
(added into Sixth Star loop) |
||
Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
As President of the California Equal Suffrage Association, aka the California Woman Suffrage Association, from 1909 to 1911, Mrs. Watson saw her dream come true for California women. Earlier, her personal quest for emancipation led her to become a pastor in the First Spiritualist Union of San Francisco (1896). For her friend and ardent suffragist, Georgiana Bruce Kirby, she delivered the funeral oration in Santa Cruz (1887). | As President of the California Equal Suffrage Association, aka the California Woman Suffrage Association, from 1909 to 1911, Mrs. Watson saw her dream come true for California women. Earlier, her personal quest for emancipation led her to become a pastor in the First Spiritualist Union of San Francisco (1896). For her friend and ardent suffragist, Georgiana Bruce Kirby, she delivered the funeral oration in Santa Cruz (1887). | ||
[[Nellie Holbrook Blinn|Prev. Document]] | [[Nellie Holbrook Blinn|Prev. Document]] [[Championing the Working Woman|Next Document]] | ||
[[category:Women]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1900s]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:Religion]] | [[category:Women]] [[category:Famous characters]] [[category:1900s]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:Religion]] |
Unfinished History
by Mae Silver, excerpted from The Sixth Star
Elizabeth Lowe Watson
photo: from The Sixth Star
As President of the California Equal Suffrage Association, aka the California Woman Suffrage Association, from 1909 to 1911, Mrs. Watson saw her dream come true for California women. Earlier, her personal quest for emancipation led her to become a pastor in the First Spiritualist Union of San Francisco (1896). For her friend and ardent suffragist, Georgiana Bruce Kirby, she delivered the funeral oration in Santa Cruz (1887).