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Kentucky Equal Rights Association
Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) was the first permanent statewide women's rights organization in Kentucky. Founded in November 1888, the KERA voted in 1920 to transmute itself into thKentucky League of Women Votersto continue its many and diverse progressive efforts on behalf of women's rights. Inspired by Lucy Stone during the national meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association in Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville in 1881, a group of suffragists formed the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association, the first statewide suffrage organization in the South. Laura Clay served as president with affiliate groups in Louisville, Lexington and Richmond. Laura's older sister, Mary Barr Clay (vice-president for both Elizabeth Cady Stanton's National Woman Suffrage Association as well as of Stone's American Woman Suffrage Association) hosted Susan B. Anthony in Richmond, Kentucky, Richmond in 1879 to speak on the need for economic protections for women. She then founded the Madison C ...
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Laura Clay
Laura Clay (February 9, 1849June 29, 1941), co-founder and first president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement. She was one of the most important suffragists in the South, favoring the states' rights approach to suffrage. A powerful orator, she was active in the Democratic Party and had important leadership roles in local, state and national politics. In 1920 at the Democratic National Convention, she was one of two women, alongside Cora Wilson Stewart, to be the first women to have their names placed into nomination for the presidency at the convention of a major political party. Family and early life A daughter of Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician), Cassius Marcellus Clay and his wife Mary Jane Warfield Clay, Mary Jane Warfield, Clay was born at their estate, White Hall (Richmond, Kentucky), White Hall, near Richmond, Kentucky. The youngest of four daughters, Laura was raised largely by her mother, due to he ...
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Mary Jane Warfield Clay
Mary Jane Warfield Clay (January 20, 1815 – April 29, 1900) was an American socialite, suffragist, abolitionist, and political activist. An early leader in the suffrage movement in Kentucky, she began by forming a suffrage club at her home in 1879. Her experience and success as a farm manager included her acute business sense in the middle of the American Civil War. She sold supplies from her farm to both Union Army, Union and Confederate Army, Confederate forces when they each occupied the Commonwealth. Her most active work in the suffrage movement was to encourage and support her daughters, who would become the most well-known Kentucky suffragists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Early life and family Mary Jane Warfield was the daughter of Dr. Elisha Warfield and his wife, Maria ( Barr). She grew up on a thoroughbred horse farm, The Meadows, on the northeast side of Lexington, Kentucky and was part of an elite social class based on slavery and the thoroughbre ...
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John Y
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ( ...
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Covington, Kentucky
Covington is a list of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Ohio River, Ohio and Licking River (Kentucky), Licking rivers, across from Cincinnati to the north and Newport, Kentucky, Newport to the east. It is the largest city in Northern Kentucky and the List of cities in Kentucky, fifth-most populous city in the state with a population of 40,691 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Covington is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area and is one of Kenton County's two county seat, seats, along with Independence, Kentucky, Independence. History In 1814, John Gano, Richard Gano, and Thomas Carneal purchased The Point, of land on the west side of the Licking River at its confluence with the Ohio, from Thomas Kennedy for $50,000, and laid out the settlement of Covington the next year.
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Newport, Kentucky
Newport is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States. It is at the confluence of the Ohio River, Ohio and Licking River (Kentucky), Licking rivers across from Cincinnati. The population was 14,150 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Historically, it was one of four county seats of Campbell County. Newport is an urban center of Northern Kentucky and is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. History Newport was settled by James Taylor, Jr. (Kentucky), James Taylor Jr. on land purchased by his father James Sr. from George Muse, who received it as a grant. Taylor's brother, Hubbard Taylor, had been mapping the land twenty years prior. It was not named for its position on the river but for Christopher Newport, the commander of the first ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Newport was established as a town on December 14, 1795, and incorporated as a city on February 24, 1834. In 1803, the Fort Washington, Cincinna ...
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Madeline McDowell Breckinridge By Dixie Selden
''Madeline'' is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film. The stories take place in a Catholic boarding school in Paris. The teacher, named Miss Clavel, is strict but loves the children, cares for them, and is open to their ideas. Most of the media starts with the line "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines ..." and end with an invocation of a famous phrase used by Ethel Barrymore to rebuff curtain calls: "That's all there is, there isn't any more". The stories often are written entirely in rhyme, include simple themes of daily life, and the playful but harmless mischief of Madeline, which appeal to children and parents alike. Most of the books have several recurring themes, such as Miss Clavel turning on the light and saying: "Som ...
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Christine Bradley South
Christine Bradley South (December 20, 1878 – February 20, 1957) was president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association for three years (1916–1919). She was a Vice-President of KERA when her cousin (on her mother's side), Governor Edwin P. Morrow, signed into law Kentucky's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on January 6, 1920. She served as a delegate from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention in 1920, 1928 and 1932; and in 1937 she served on the Republican National Committee. Background and early life The second of two children of Margaret Duncan and Kentucky Governor William O'Connell Bradley, Christine Duncan Bradley was born on December 20, 1878, and grew up in Lancaster, Kentucky. Her brother, George Robertson Bradley, died when she was thirteen. She read law in her father's office and traveled with him on his campaigns, riding a mule to get through the mountains of eastern Kentucky Appalachia. She married Dr. John Glover South (January 23, 1873 - May ...
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Elise Bennett Smith
Elise Clay Bennett Smith (September 9, 1871 – 1964) was President of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1915 to 1916, and served as an Executive Committee member for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her last name changed several times as she married three men in succession: from her birth surname of Bennett she became Smith, then Jefferson, and finally Gagliardini. Early life, first marriage, and motherhood Elise "Fanny" Clay Bennett was the second of six children of suffragists Sarah "Sallie" Lewis Clay Bennett (daughter of Mary Jane Warfield Clay) and James Bennett of Madison County, Kentucky. She was also the niece of several nationally known activists, including Mary Barr Clay, Laura Clay, and Belle Harris Bennett. She graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She married Thomas Jefferson Smith Jr. of Madison County, Kentucky, on February 3, 1898. They had two children together: Elise Bennett Smith Wenley and Thomas Jefferso ...
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Elise Bennett Smith 1917
Elise or Elyse may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Elise, the unidentified person to whom Beethoven dedicated ''Für Elise'' * ''Elise'', a 1979 speculative fiction novel by Ken Grimwood * ''Élise ou la vraie vie'' (''Elise, or the Real Life''), a 1967 novel by the French writer Claire Etcherelli * ''Élise ou la vraie vie'' (''Elise, or Real Life''), a 1970 French drama film based on the novel of the same name * ''Elyse'' (film), a 2020 American drama film * "Elise", an episode of the British television programme ''Foyle's War'' People and fictional characters * Élise, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Élise, Elise, Elize, or Elyse * Elise, a character who is Marceline the Vampire Queen's mother in the TV series ''Adventure Time'' * Christine Elise (born 1965), American actress * Elise Marilyn Jones (born 1997), American actress known professionally as Chloe Cherry * Kimberly Elise, (born 1967), American actress * Lily Elise (born 1991), Americ ...
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Madeline McDowell Breckinridge C1900
''Madeline'' is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film. The stories take place in a Catholic boarding school in Paris. The teacher, named Miss Clavel, is strict but loves the children, cares for them, and is open to their ideas. Most of the media starts with the line "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines ..." and end with an invocation of a famous phrase used by Ethel Barrymore to rebuff curtain calls: "That's all there is, there isn't any more". The stories often are written entirely in rhyme, include simple themes of daily life, and the playful but harmless mischief of Madeline, which appeal to children and parents alike. Most of the books have several recurring themes, such as Miss Clavel turning on the light and saying: "Som ...
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Laura Clay Kentucky
Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia, a town * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula * Laura River (Queensland) * Laura River (Western Australia) Italy * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany United States * Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Laura, Ohio, a village Elsewhere * Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet * Laura, Marshall Islands, a town * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Laura River (Romania) * 467 Laura, an asteroid Arts and entertainment Art * ''Laura ...
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