Inscribed with author's presentation slip: "To Miss Edna Farr compliments of Thomas Holmes"
The Rev. Thomas Holmes, D.D. was a pastor and educator, who became the president of Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana from 1865 until 1875. The…
Anti-suffrage commentary focused on The Woman's Bible and the anti-Christian beliefs of suffragists. The author pulls direct quotes from The Woman's Bible.
From the Library of Congress:
In 1895, Elizabeth Cady Stanton published the first edition…
In 1915, Iowa suffragists lobbied throughout the state to garner support for a June 5, 1916 referendum that would amend the state constitution and grant women the right to vote. The referendum was defeated by 10,341 votes.
Excerpts from two addresses by the Right Reverend William Croswell Doane to the graduating classes of St. Agnes' School, a girls school connected to the Episcopal Chuch.
Rev. Doane was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany from 1869…
The National American Woman Suffrage Association solicited the opinions of Protestant and Catholic clergymen in the states where women were enfranchised on the effect of woman suffrage. Their statements were compiled into three leaflets; "Turn on the…
Leaflet containing quotes by prominent Catholic clergy to demonostrate Catholic support for woman's suffrage. The PWSA published this leaflet as a part of their lobbying campaign for an upcoming suffrage referendum in 1915. The referendum did not…
Article written by an unidentified author and published by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association, offers comments on the recently published "Woman's Bible", written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of women.