Born: 17 December 1853, United States
Died: 2 November 1945
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Harriet Taylor
The following is republished with permission from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History at Case Western Reserve University.
A day before the AWSA convention, on November 23, a group of 35 men and women founded the OHIO WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (OWSA) in Cleveland. The organization would lead the fight for the right to vote for the next half a century, presenting memorials to the state legislature asking for woman suffrage. OWSA leaders, Harriet Taylor Upton and ELIZABETH J. HAUSER would step up to the national ranks of suffrage leadership. After the merger of AWSA and NWSA in 1890 to form the NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (NAWSA), Hauser became its press secretary, while Upton became its treasurer in 1894.