Suffragist and labor activist.
Starting at the age of 18, Augusta Troup worked as a newspaper reporter. She helped Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the suffragist paper, "The Revolution," for which she was both a journalist and typesetter. She was elected president of the Women's Typographical Union in 1869 and then became the first woman to hold a national union office, serving as corresponding secretary of the International Typographical Union (ITU).
Starting at the age of 18, Augusta Troup worked as a newspaper reporter. She helped Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the suffragist paper, "The Revolution," for which she was both a journalist and typesetter. She was elected president of the Women's Typographical Union in 1869 and then became the first woman to hold a national union office, serving as corresponding secretary of the International Typographical Union (ITU).
Suffragist and labor activist.
Starting at the age of 18, Augusta Troup worked as a newspaper reporter. She helped Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the suffragist paper, "The Revolution," for which she was both a journalist and typesetter. She was elected president of the Women's Typographical Union in 1869 and then became the first woman to hold a national union office, serving as corresponding secretary of the International Typographical Union (ITU).
Starting at the age of 18, Augusta Troup worked as a newspaper reporter. She helped Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the suffragist paper, "The Revolution," for which she was both a journalist and typesetter. She was elected president of the Women's Typographical Union in 1869 and then became the first woman to hold a national union office, serving as corresponding secretary of the International Typographical Union (ITU).
Bio by: Lisa R. Garrett
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AUGUSTA LEWIS
WIFE OF
ALEXANDER TROUP
FEB. 26, 1849
SEPT. 14, 1920
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