Suffragist - Candor, NY
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Esther H. McQuigg Morris was born 1812 and became Justice of Peace in 1870.
Waymark Code: WMR132
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2016
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text "Suffragist Esther H. McQuigg Morris women's rights activist born in Spencer 1812. First female Justice of Peace in U.S. Wyoming Terr., 1870. George E. Pataki, Governor"
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"she had strongly encouraged and influenced South Pass City saloon owner William H. Bright, then a representative to the Wyoming Territorial Constitutional Convention, to introduce in 1869 a women's suffrage clause into the territorial constitution...in December 1869, Wyoming became the first jurisdiction in the United States to grant women the right to vote, a right which was not granted women nationally until 1920...Esther Hobart was born in Tioga County, New York, on August 6, 1814. Orphaned at an early age, she apprenticed to a seamstress and ran a successful millinery business out of her grandparents' home, "making hats, and buying and selling goods for women". Moreover, Hobart agitated as a young woman against slavery, reportedly during one incident countering efforts of slavery advocates who threatened to destroy a church that supported abolition."
"Esther Morris, as a working mother, held court over a camp of miners, gamblers, speculators, business owners, prostitutes, and rounders...Since 1960, a statue of her sculpted by Avard Fairbanks has been one of Wyoming's two statutes in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol. Another statute stands at the Wyoming State Capitol. "