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Ellen C. Sargent 1826 ~ 1911
Ellen C. Sargent
Mrs. Ellen C Sargent, of San Francisco,
has just died of old age at the house of her son, George C.
Sargent, a lawyer.
Mrs. Sargent has been for many years one
of the great women of California, broad-minded, interested in
all progressive work, most of all in woman suffrage, and always
optimistic. She lived in Washington many years while her
husband, Hon. Aaron A. Sargent, was senator from California, and
was a regular attendant at National Suffrage Conventions.
She and Susan B. Anthony were very close
friends and often visited each other and always were in
correspondence. When her husband was minister to Germany, she
accompanied him to Berlin, and on their return to California
lived in Nevada City and in San Francisco.
She had the advantages of New England
birth, of Washington society, foreign travel, and a fortune, but
she was at all times unassuming, helpful, sympathetic and
regarded with deepest esteem and fondest affection by all of her
friends.
Mrs. Sargent was president of the
California Equal Suffrage Association during the campaign of
1896, and the campaign headquarters was in her house. Miss
Anthony was her guest during a large part of the time. While
suffrage has been her first thought, she has always seen the
relation of other movements toward suffrage and has distributed
much literature on peace, direct legislation and other related
work.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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