Katharine Seymour Day

Born in Hartford, Katharine Seymour Day was the daughter of prominent attorney John Calvin Day. She was also the granddaughter of suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and grandniece of anti-slavery novelist…

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Emily Parmely Collins

Emily Parmely Collins was born in South Bristol, New York. She was an industrious reader of history and poetry. In her teens she became a school teacher. She was very…

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Josephine Day Bennett

Josephine was the daughter of George and Katherine Beach Day. Her father was an executive at Pope Manufacturing and her mother was a well-known suffragist and civil rights activist. Suffragist…

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