Suffragists -- United States; Women -- Suffrage -- United States
LUCY G. BRANHAM, Baltimore, Md., organizer N.W.P., graduate Washington
College, Md.; M. A., Johns Hopkins; graduate student Univ. of Chicago
and Ph.D. Columbia. Won Carnegie hero medal for rescuing man and woman
from drowning at St. Petersburg, Fla. Arrested picketing Sept., 1917,
sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan and District Jail.
MRS. LUCY G. BRANHAM, Baltimore, Md., mother of Miss Lucy Branham,
widow of Dr. John W. Branham who lost his life fighting a yellow fever
epidemic in Ga. Arrested watchfire demonstration Jan., 1919; sentenced
to 3 days in District Jail.
MRS. JOHN WINTERS BRANNAN, New York City, daughter of the late Charles
A. Dana, founder and editor N. Y. Sun., trusted counselor of President
Lincoln; wife of Dr. Brannan. Pres. Board of Trustees Bellevue
Hospital; member executive committee N.W.P., state chairman New York
Branch. Did brilliant state suffrage work as officer of Woman’s
Political Union in N. Y. Arrested picketing July 14, 1917, sentenced to
60 days in Occoquan; pardoned by President after serving 3 days. Again
arrested picketing Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to 45 days.
JENNIE BRONENBERG, Philadelphia, Pa. Student Wharton School, Univ. of
Pa. Arrested Feb., 1919, sentenced to 5 days in District Jail.
MRS. MARY E. BROWN, Wilmington, Del., state press chairman, N.W.P.
Father member First Del. regiment; mother field nurse, Civil War.
Descendant Captain David Porter, of Battleship Essex, War of 1812.
Arrested watchfire demonstration Jan. 13, 1919, sentenced to 5 days in
District Jail.
LOUISE BRYANT, New York City, formerly of Portland Ore., author, poet
and journalist, wife of John Reed. Correspondent for Phila. Public
Ledger in Petrograd for six months during Russian revolution. Arrested
Watchfire demonstration Feb., 1919, sentenced to 5 days in District
Jail.
Lucy BURNS, New York City, graduate Vassar College, student of Yale
Univ. and Univ. of Bonn, Germany. High School teacher. Joined English
militant suffrage movement 1909, where she met Alice Paul, with whom
she joined in establishing first permanent suffrage headquarters in
Washington in Jan., 1913; helped organize parade of March 3, 1913; vice
chairman and member of executive committee Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage [later the N.W.P.], for a time editor of The Suffragist.
Leader of most of the picket demonstrations and served more time in
jail than any other suffragist in America. Arrested picketing June,
1917, sentenced to 3 days; arrested Sept., 1917, sentenced to 60 days;
arrested Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to six months; in January, 1919,
arrested watchfire demonstrations for which she served one 3 day and
two 5 day sentences. She also served 4 prison terms in England.
MRS. HENRY BUTTERWORTH, New York City, comes of an old Huguenot family.
Active in civic and suffrage work in N. Y. for past 20 years. Charter
member National Society of Craftsmen. Arrested picketing Nov., 1917,
sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan.
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