Educator and reformer Frances Elizabeth Willard of Auburndale, Massachusetts, writes Governor John Martin of Topeka, Kansas, requesting information on the effect the woman's vote in municipal elections has had on enforcing prohibition. Miss Willard's letter follows a newly enacted Kansas law giving women equal suffrage in municipal elections (1887). Willard is specifically interested in the relation between the woman's vote and the election of effective enforcing officers. Women did not achieve full suffrage in Kansas until 1912. As this letter demonstrates, the women's suffrage issue was closely associated with prohibition. Miss Willard was president of the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union. See Mrs. G. Monroe to Governor John Martin, February 11, 1887.
Date: March 13, 1888
Creator: Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898
Item Number: 207973
Call Number: Governor's Records, Martin, Box 30 Folder 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 207973
Business and Industry - Retail - Liquor
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Martin, John Alexander
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Leisure activities - Gambling
Date - 1880s - 1888
Government and Politics - Local Government - Municipal
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and Temperance
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Martin, John Alexander
Home and Family
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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