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The strange story of the Governor’s wife

Marguerite Kearns January 3, 2013 2 Comments

Ninety-nine years ago in the first week of January, a hardy band of marchers under the direction of suffragist Rosalie Jones started out from from New York City on a march headed to Albany, NY to ask NYS Governor Martin Glynn to appoint poll watchers in the 1915 suffrage referendum. My grandparents Edna and Wilmer…

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Torchlight meetings, auto parades = wagons got out the word!

Marguerite Kearns October 10, 2011 3 Comments

Picture a torchlight meeting, an automobile parade, and open-air meeting. Huntington, New York piled on the welcome when my grandmother Edna Kearns and the “Spirit of 1776” wagon hit town. Long Island activist Rosalie Jones drove her yellow suffrage campaign wagon in the parade as well. Horse-drawn wagons may seem quaint to us today, but…

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