Mary Emma Holmes | |
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| Born | Mary Emma Smith August 3, 1839 Peoria County, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | May 18, 1937 (aged 97) |
| Other names | Mrs. Mary E. Holmes |
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David Edward Holmes
(m. 1865; died 1907) |
Mary Emma Holmes (née, Smith; August 3, 1839 – May 18, 1937) was an American reformer, suffragist, and educator. [1] She was the president of the Equal Suffrage Association of Illinois,[2] and she represented the National American Suffrage Association in the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.[3] Holmes was a member of the Chicago Woman's Club, and was the chair of the Chicago YWCA's travelers' aid department, which had for its object the protection of girls at the region's depots.[2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "HOLMES, Mrs. Mary Emma". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 389–90.
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- ^ a b Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ... American Publishers' Association. p. 198. Retrieved October 14, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. Retrieved October 14, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
