Her obituary was published in the Morning Olympian on Tuesday, July 18, 1899.
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Name: Phoebe Harrison Moore
Age: 71
Father's Name: David Earl
"Washington, County Deaths, 1891-1907," index and images, FamilySearch
Phoebe Moore 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 other women were Mary O. Brown, Ann Bigelow, Sarah E. Chapman, Mehitabel H. Elder, Jane Wylie, J. B. Allen, C. A. Sands, Mary Jane Baldwin, Mary A. Barnes, 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
Her obituary was published in the Morning Olympian on Tuesday, July 18, 1899.
******
Name: Phoebe Harrison Moore
Age: 71
Father's Name: David Earl
"Washington, County Deaths, 1891-1907," index and images, FamilySearch
Phoebe Moore 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 other women were Mary O. Brown, Ann Bigelow, Sarah E. Chapman, Mehitabel H. Elder, Jane Wylie, J. B. Allen, C. A. Sands, Mary Jane Baldwin, Mary A. Barnes, 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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