Abigail Scott Duniway was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women.
Groveland is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. It has a small library, a school which is now a church, gas station, war memorial, country store with restaurant and chapel, churches, Pyramid Printing Inc. and a handful of other small businesses. It has approximately 1400 residents and is located near Pekin and Morton. It lies within ten miles of Peoria, near Springfield Road and Edgewater Drive, which is Illinois State Route 98.
Harvey Whitefield Scott (1838–1910) was an American pioneer who traveled to Oregon in 1852. Scott was a long-time editorialist, and eventual part owner of The Oregonian newspaper. Scott was regarded by his contemporaries as instrumental in bringing the state of Oregon firmly into the political camp of the Republican Party.
The Hilton Portland Downtown and Duniway Hotel are a pair of Hilton-brand hotels located in downtown Portland, Oregon. The original 22-story, 240-foot (73 m) tower was completed in 1962 and was named the Hilton Portland. The second tower with 20 floors, located kitty-corner from the original building, to the northeast, was completed in 2002 and was originally named the Hilton Executive Tower, until its renaming as The Duniway Hotel in 2017. The 1962 building was the tallest building in the city for three years until surpassed by the Harrison West Condominium Tower in 1965.
The Portland Telegram was a daily newspaper serving Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon from 1877 until it was acquired by, and merged into, the Scripps-owned Portland News in 1931. The News had started out as the East Side News under secretive circumstances in 1906. The Telegram was a Democratic paper, despite its founder being a staunch Republican.
The Advocate was a four-page weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon, established to cover issues relating to racial minorities. It was founded in 1903; microfilm of the paper is available through 1933, and the paper was covered as an active entity in other Portland press until at least 1936. The Advocate was known as Portland's second oldest black newspaper. In 1933 when the paper ceased publication it was the only remaining black-owned newspaper In its early days, it was known as the Mt. Scott Herald and possibly as the Beaver State Herald. The Advocate covered a variety of topics for both the white and black communities in Portland. The Advocate covered segregation, lynching, employment opportunities and other issues at the beginning.
Sara Bard Field was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, Georgist, and Christian socialist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada. Working with Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Field drove across the country from California to Washington, D.C. to present a petition containing a reported 500,000 signatures demanding a federal suffrage amendment to President Woodrow Wilson. She was known as a skilled orator and became a poet later in her career, marrying her long-time partner and mentor, poet and lawyer C.E.S. Wood.
Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste is a bronze sculpture of Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau by American artist Alice Cooper, located in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
The women's suffrage movement in Washington was part of the broader Women's suffrage movement in the United States. In the state of Washington, women gained and lost the right to vote repeatedly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sarah Ann Shannon Evans was an American clubwoman and suffragist based in Portland, Oregon, president of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs from 1905 to 1915. She was the first woman in Portland to carry a police badge, in her work as the city's first Market Inspector. She also worked for state funding of free public libraries in Oregon.
The Oregon Equal Suffrage Amendment was an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of Oregon, establishing women's suffrage, which was passed by ballot initiative in 1912. It had previously been placed on the ballot, initially by referral from the Oregon Legislative Assembly and later by popular initiative, in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, and 1910. When the initiative was ratified in 1912, Oregon became the seventh state to extend the right to vote to women.
Oregon Deutsche Zeitung, launched in 1867, was the first of several German language newspapers published in the U.S. state of Oregon.
The Portland Bee was a Republican newspaper in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 19th century. It was launched in November 1875, the same year as the Portland Daily Bulletin disincorporated; like the Bulletin, it had both daily and weekly editions. It initially had two daily editions, and circulated 1,000 free copies.
Catherine Amanda Coburn was an American pioneer of the long nineteenth century associated with the Oregon Territory. Entering the workforce after the untimely death of her husband, she became a teacher and school principal and, later, a newspaper editor. A century after her birth, she and her elder sister were described by an Oregon historian as "probably Oregon's two greatest women journalists." Coburn was active in civic life, especially in her later years. Though she did not identify as a "suffragette", she did actively support the cause of women's suffrage, among various charitable and civic causes.
Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle was an American early Oregon doctor and rights champion.
Portland, Oregon has an extended history of street activism and has seen many notable protests.
Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty was an African American abolitionist and suffrage advocate who joined Abigail Scott Duniway, Maria P. Hendee, and Mary Ann King Lambert in 1872 to cast ballots as American citizens and women in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the first Black women to publicly agitate for women suffrage west of the Mississippi.
Sara A. Underwood was a prominent English-born American freethought lecturer and writer, and an active part of the movement for women's suffrage.
Mary Osborn Douthit (1850–1908) was an early white settler of the Oregon country, a teacher, a prominent advocate of woman suffrage, and editor of the book The Souvenir of Western Women, published to coincide with the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905. She immigrated to Oregon in 1853 at the age of three. Her parents were James Harrison and Lueza Osborn Douthit. She was killed when struck by a streetcar in downtown Portland in 1908; she had been living in Portland for 15 years. According to fellow suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, Douthit's untimely death cut short a literary career on the cusp of success. Her book had brief, positive mentions in the Oregon Historical Quarterly and in the Pacific Monthly.
Mary Anna Cooke Thompson was a leader in the first generation of women's rights activists in Oregon and one of Oregon's pioneer doctors, who broke through the barriers to women in medicine.
