As I am preparing for my September program, The March to the Vote, which focuses on women’s suffrage in Framingham, I am looking for information on the following women and Suffrage organizations in Framingham. Any photographs, letters, diaries or family stories you remember about these people or organizations would be very helpful. Thank you!
1909-1920
Framingham Equal Suffrage League
Framingham Branch of the National Women’s Party:
Mrs. E. Frank Bowditch
Mrs. Jessie D Hodder (Superintendent Sherborn Women’s Reformatory)
Miss Ellen Hyde
Mrs. Sumner B. Pearmain (family owned Nobscot Mountain Tea House in Sudbury, lived on Wayside Inn Rd Framingham)
Miss Abby S. Perry
Miss Olive Mills Belches
Miss Anna M. Murphy
Miss J. A. Collins (Josephine Collins subject of story)
Mrs. A.P. Sherman
Mrs. John G. Bauld,
Mrs. Charles A. Brown,
Mrs. Agnes C. Lummus, (owned Tea Room on Pleasant Street, presumably with Miss Collins)
Miss Ellen Hyde McNair,
Mrs. George M. Smith, (mother of Edmund Ware Smith author of My Tom Sawyer Town)
Mrs. Austin E. St. Clair
Mrs. Harry P. Hastings
Mrs. William I. Mayo (Louise Mayo subject of story)
Photos of any of Mrs. Mayo’s 7 children as kids or High School Graduates
Mrs. Edwin B. Miles
Ethel Macomber
Meta Warrick Fuller (as member of Suffrage League)
I am particularly interested in a photo of Josephine Collins Dry Goods Store in Framingham Center and the Tea Room at 66 Pleasant Street residence of Agnes Lummus as well as photos of The “Barge”, the horse drawn school bus driven by the Mayo family.
This is an exciting project and I want to cast as wide a net as possible to enrich the program. Please email info@framinghamhistory.org with any information.
Thank you,
Libby Franck
Storyteller