A noted woman suffragist. Graduating from the University of Kansas in 1910, Iris Calderhead subsequently did graduate work in English Literature and Poetry at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Chicago. Beginning in 1913, she campaigned for women's suffrage by speaking, marching, and picketing in many parts of the country. In 1917, she was arrested at the Smithsonian for planning to place a banner and arrested and jailed for three days for picketing the White House. Ms. Calderhead was first married in 1918 to John Brisben Walker, former publisher of Cosmopolitan Magazine, automobile manufacturer, and land developer. Mr. Walker died in 1931. Iris Calderhead Walker was married in 1941 to Wallace Everett Pratt, famed oil geologist, former vice-president , director, and member of the executive committee of Standard Oil of New Jersey. She and her husband moved to Pratt's home in McKittrick Canyon, Texas which was later donated to help form the Guadalupe National Park. The Pratt's later moved to Tucson, Arizona for health reasons.
A noted woman suffragist. Graduating from the University of Kansas in 1910, Iris Calderhead subsequently did graduate work in English Literature and Poetry at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Chicago. Beginning in 1913, she campaigned for women's suffrage by speaking, marching, and picketing in many parts of the country. In 1917, she was arrested at the Smithsonian for planning to place a banner and arrested and jailed for three days for picketing the White House. Ms. Calderhead was first married in 1918 to John Brisben Walker, former publisher of Cosmopolitan Magazine, automobile manufacturer, and land developer. Mr. Walker died in 1931. Iris Calderhead Walker was married in 1941 to Wallace Everett Pratt, famed oil geologist, former vice-president , director, and member of the executive committee of Standard Oil of New Jersey. She and her husband moved to Pratt's home in McKittrick Canyon, Texas which was later donated to help form the Guadalupe National Park. The Pratt's later moved to Tucson, Arizona for health reasons.
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