Volume 17 , Issue 34

100 Years Ago - 28 Sept. 1915, Tuesday

It was one hundred years ago, 28 September 1915, Tuesday, that we found this front page headline in The Tulsa Daily World, reporting "Three Generations of Women Who Are Devoting Their Energies to the Suffrage Cause in United States."

The picture in the article was taken about twenty-five years ago, was interesting in that it showed three generations of New York women who had been active in the suffrage cause. They were, left to right: Mrs. Nora Blatch de Forest, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Stanton Blatch.

New York, Sept. 27, 1915 -- Three cities in this state were to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first suffrage worker in the state of New York, during the month.The first celebration would occur at Seneca Falls on October 8, 1915. It was there that she called together the first women's equal rights convention on July 19 and 29, 1848.

The hundredth anniversary of Mrs. Stanton's birth would be celebrated in Johnstown, N. Y., her birthplaceon the evening of October 9. Among the speakers would be Mrs. Margaret Stanton Lawrence, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, the two daughters of Mrs. Stanton, and Mrs. Nora Blatch de Forest, daughter of Mrs. Blatch.

On October 30 the Women's Political union in New York city would hold a celebration in honor of Mrs. Stanton by large rallies in the various parks in the evening and a suffrage lunch at Astor at noon.

Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch was at present inLondon, where he went a few weeks before with the ashes of her late husband. She would return for the anniversary celebrations.
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