Margaret W. Campbell
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Margaret W. Campbell (January 16, 1827-November 5, 1908) was an American women's suffrage advocate.
Personal life
Campbell was born in Hancock County, Maine, on January 16, 1827.[1]Template:Sfn She attended the district schools there.[1] She moved to Iowa in 1857, locating in Linn County.[1] During the American Civil War, she was active in soldiers' aid societies.[1]Template:Sfn
Suffragist
As early as 1850, her attention was called to the subject of women's suffrage by reading the proceedings of the first Woman's Rights Convention held in Worcester, Massachusetts.[1]Template:Sfn She soon became a firm believer in the reform but did not enter the field as a worker until 1863.[1] It was at this time made her first public speeches in the suffrage cause, writing also on the subject for the newspapers.[1]
In 1869, she was sent as a delegate to the convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association at Cleveland, Ohio.[1] From this time on, Campbell became one of the prominent public speakers in the cause in New England and New York.[1] For more than 20 years she was an officer of the American Woman Suffrage Association and for a long time was connected with the Woman's Journal.[1] She was associated with Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, and other national leaders in the reform, often speaking with them at conventions in various states.[1]Template:Sfn[2]
As she toured the country working for the cause, her husband, a painter, often painted portraits to cover their expenses.Template:Sfn
Massachusetts
In February 1869, she attended a suffrage convention at Springfield, Massachusetts, where a number of the national leaders were among the speakers.[1] Here Campbell made an eloquent address which attracted general attention.[1] At one point in her life, she lived in Springfield.Template:Sfn
In 1870, Campbell was a delegate to the state convention of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.[1] She organized women's suffrage societies in Berkshire, Essex, Hampden, Plymouth, and Worcester Counties.Template:Sfn
Iowa
In November 1879, Campbell settled in Iowa and continued active in the suffrage cause, taking part in all of the state campaigns.[1] She was four years president of the State Suffrage Association and for two years corresponding secretary.[1]
Michigan
She worked with American Woman Suffrage Association to attempt toamend the Michigan Constitution to allow women to vote, in 1874 but it was defeated, 136,000-40,000.Template:Sfn
Colorado
In 1875, it became increasingly likely that the United States Congress would admit Colorado as the 38th state.[3] Campbell moved to the territory, spending much of 1875 and 1876 trying to convince the Colorado constitutional convention to give women the right to vote.Template:Sfn On January 10, 1876, she helped organize a women's suffrage convention at Unity Church in Denver.[3] It was timed to coincide with the convention drafting a constitution for the territory, and was publicized with pamphlets placed on the desks of territorial legislators and delegates to the constitutional convention.[3] The convention established the Territorial Woman Suffrage Society, the precursor to the Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association.[3]
The convention did not grant women the right to vote, but it did agree to hold a referendum on the issue in 1877.Template:Sfn Campbell returned to work on that campaign, giving lectures to drunken miners in small schoolhouses and on the banks of rivers.Template:Sfn To get to some locations, she traveled up the sides of mountains on a "sure-footed little burro" along dangerous trails where they could have plunged thousands of feet to their deaths.Template:Sfn Despite her efforts, the referendum failed by a margin of nearly two-to-one.Template:Sfn[3]
Other states
Campbell spent much of 1872 in Maine, organizing the Maine Women Suffrage Association.Template:Sfn She then spent two years organizing in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado.Template:Sfn She then returned to work in New England before focusing her attentions on Iowa, Indiana, and Nebraska.Template:Sfn
Later years and death
In 1901, she removed to Joliet, Illinois.[1] She died there in 1908, with the funeral services held at the home of her son, George.[2]
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Works cited
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