Bernice Secrest Pyke
The first woman elected a delegate to a national political convention and the first woman to serve in a Cleveland mayor’s cabinet
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Elizabeth Hauser
Ohio writer and suffrage leader
Selene Corlett
Milliner and dressmaker who organized a training school which prepared 260 women to work in hospitals, factories, at the American Red Cross, and on streetcars during WWI.
Caroline M Severance
1800s feminist activist in Cleveland, known as America’s first clubwoman
Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler
President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as an abolitionist and a leader of the temperance movement in Ohio
Marie Remington Wing
American lawyer, feminist, and reformer
Mary Belle Grossman
The first woman municipal judge in the U.S.
Belle Sherwin
American reform activist and a suffragist who led the national League of Women Voters during 1924-1934.
Dr Elizabeth Lewis Otey
Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis Otey was an economist, an activist in the Virginia and national suffrage movements, and a political candidate for the Republican and Socialist parties.
Alice Parker Lesser
Turn of the century American lawyer