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Marie Stuart Edwards, c. 1920. Marie Stuart Edwards was a suffragist and social reformer from Peru, Indiana.She served as president of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana (1917–1919); publicity director of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) during the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920; and vice president of the National League of Women Voters (1921–1923).
The Women's Franchise League of Indiana was headquartered in Peru, Indiana. The WFL consisted of a president, treasurer, and an executive secretary. The league went from thirty six branches in 1912, sixty branches in 1916 and one hundred twelve in 1921 when it reorganized into the League of Women Voters in 1921 [9]
Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, United States. [2] It is 73 miles (117 km) north of Indianapolis. The population was 11,073 at the 2020 census, [3] making it the most populous community in Miami County. [5] Peru is located along the Wabash River and is part of the Kokomo-Peru Combined Statistical Area.
Mary Frame Meyers was born on October 28, 1816, in Montgomery County, Maryland, to Samuel and Mary Meyers, both of whom were Quakers.Her father, a farmer and an abolitionist, was an associate of Benjamin Lundy and helped organize the first anti-slavery society in Washington, D.C.
National Woman's Day, a predecessor of International Women's Day in the United States; National Women's Day, celebrated in South Africa on August 9; National Women's Day, celebrated in Bolivia on October 11; National Women's Day, celebrated in East Timor on November 3; The Combined Holidays of Women's Day and Children's Day, celebrated in ...
Cathy Day was born in Peru, Indiana. [1] She graduated from DePauw University in 1991 [2] and earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama in 1995. [3] Since 1997, Day has been teaching creative writing at the college level.
Female soldiers from Peru, Egypt, India and other countries celebrate International Women's Day. Female soldiers from Peru, Egypt, India and other countries celebrate International Women's Day. The earliest version reported was a "Woman's Day" organized by the Socialist Party of America in New York City on February 28, 1909.
Amanda M. Way (July 10, 1828 – February 24, 1914) was a pioneer in the temperance and women's equal rights movements, an American Civil War nurse, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1870s, and a Society of Friends minister by the mid-1880s.