The 1816 Farmington Meetinghouse will present “Hester Jeffrey: Temperance; Suffrage; Political Action,” a program set for Saturday, September 11th, at the Granger Homestead in Canandaigua, Ontario County, NY.
Jeffrey, a suffragist and political activist, organized the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Rochester, the National Assn. of Colored Women’s Clubs, and was a friend and eulogist of Susan B. Anthony.
Beginning at 2 pm, Susan Goodier, author of No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2013) and professor at SUNY Oneonta specializing in U.S. women’s activism, especially suffrage activism from 1840 – 1920, will speak on Hester Jeffrey.
This event is made possible with the support of co-sponsors and a grant from Humanities New York.
The Granger Homestead is located at 295 N. Main Street, Canandaigua. For more information about this event visit the 1816 Farmington Meetinghouse website.
Portrait of Hester Jeffrey provided.
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