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Ann Elizabeth <I>White</I> Bigelow

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Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow

Birth
Sangamon, Macon County, Illinois, USA
Death
8 Feb 1926 (aged 89)
Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, USA
Burial
Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, USA Add to Map
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Same stone as Daniel R. Bigelow

Ann Bigelow was one of the sixteen women "who were willing to put their names in the public sphere in favor of women’s rights"(Shanna Stevenson, Historian) in the early days of the suffrage movement in Washington State. The women were Mary O. Brown, Ann Bigelow, Sarah E. Chapman, Mehitabel H. Elder, Jane Wylie, J. B. Allen, C. A. Sands, Phoebe Moore, Mary A. Barnes, Mary Jane Baldwin, Susan Dofflemyer, Olive B. Manning, Clara M. Littlejohn, Jane Pattison, Margaret Ruddell, and A. R. Elliot.

Historic newspaper article read:

A Woman’s Suffrage Convention will be held at Olympic Hall, Olympia, W. T., Nov. 8, 1871, at 10:00 a.m. The friend of Woman’s Suffrage from all parts of Washington and Oregon are cordially invited to be present and participate in the deliberations. The object of this convention is to arrange some plan by which to secure concert of action among the woman voters of the Territory. Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. A. J. Duniway will be present.
The New Northwest
October 27, 1871
Same stone as Daniel R. Bigelow

Ann Bigelow was one of the sixteen women "who were willing to put their names in the public sphere in favor of women’s rights"(Shanna Stevenson, Historian) in the early days of the suffrage movement in Washington State. The women were Mary O. Brown, Ann Bigelow, Sarah E. Chapman, Mehitabel H. Elder, Jane Wylie, J. B. Allen, C. A. Sands, Phoebe Moore, Mary A. Barnes, Mary Jane Baldwin, Susan Dofflemyer, Olive B. Manning, Clara M. Littlejohn, Jane Pattison, Margaret Ruddell, and A. R. Elliot.

Historic newspaper article read:

A Woman’s Suffrage Convention will be held at Olympic Hall, Olympia, W. T., Nov. 8, 1871, at 10:00 a.m. The friend of Woman’s Suffrage from all parts of Washington and Oregon are cordially invited to be present and participate in the deliberations. The object of this convention is to arrange some plan by which to secure concert of action among the woman voters of the Territory. Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. A. J. Duniway will be present.
The New Northwest
October 27, 1871


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