Speeches

By: Henry Dixon Bruns, Belle Kearney, Helen Loring Grenfell, Anna Howard Shaw, and Jane Addams

Date: 1903, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906

Source: Harper, Ida Husted, ed. The History of Woman Suffrage. Volume V. New York: Little & Ives, 1922, 66–67, 82–83, 102–103, 125, 169–170, 178–179.

About the Author: Dr. Henry Dixon Bruns (1859–1933) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the eve of the Civil War (1861–1865). He graduated from the medical college of the University of Louisiana and spent most of his professional career in New Orleans. Belle Kearney (1863–1939) was a Mississippi-born advocate of woman suffrage. Widely traveled, Kearney was a prominent speaker who addressed audiences across the country on suffrage and temperance issues. Helen Grenfell was one of the first women in the United States elected to statewide public office. She was chosen...