May–June 1908

“Late in May and early in June a group of suffragists led by Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch travelled by trolley up the Hudson Valley holding open air meetings. The most notable of these was held at Poughkeepsie near Vassar College.”

International Year Book, 1908

Harriot Stanton Blatch ’78 was the daughter of pioneer suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY.