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Suffrage and Religious Principle: Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown Suffrage and Religious Principle: Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown by Brown, Olympia ( Author ) Paperback Jan- 1983 Paperback Jan- 01- 1983
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Olympia Brown was born on January 5, 1835 in a log cabin at Prairie Ronde, Michigan. Her parents, Asa B. and Lephia Brown, were New Englanders, having moved to Michigan from Plymouth, Massachussets. In later life, Miss Brown stated that from early childhood she remembered her mother taking the unpopular view of public questions and it was from her that she received her first ideas of equal rights for men and women.
Olympia desired to attend the University of Michigan, but it would not admit women. She therefore entered Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, from which she received a degree of bachelor of arts in 1860. While there she decided that the ministry held golden opportunities for women, so she enrolled in the Theological School of St. Lawrence University, at Canton, New York.
Olympia Brown graduated from the Theological School of St. Lawrence University in 1863.
After Olympia Brown graduated from the Theological School of St. Lawrence University in 1863, she ordained to the ministry of the Universalist Church in the same year. She served pastorates at Weymouth, Massachussets, 1864, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1869, and subsequently at Racine, Mukwonago, Neenah, and Columbus, Wis.
In 1866 she met Susan B. Anthony at an Equal Rights meeting in New York City and from a passive believer in woman's rights, became an ardent advocate.
So thorough was the campaign that, notwithstanding the fact that the Republican party, which had fathered the amendment, refused to aid in its support and even sent out circulars opposing it, the election showed one-third of the votes in its favor. When the campaign was over Miss Brown returned to preaching in New England, but continued actively interested in woman suffrage and all matters affecting women workers and the homes of the nation.
When her husband died in 1893, she became manager of his daily and weekly newspaper and job printing office in Racine, Wisconsin. For many years she traveled from state to state lecturing and campaigning for woman suffrage until at last equal suffrage was made nation-wide by the Federal Constitution.
In 1925, at the age of ninety, she accompanied her daughter on a trip to France and Italy.
Olympia Brown became famous for being an active campaigner for woman suffrage and one of the first American women whose ordination was sanctioned by a full denomination. Her other achievement was in serving as a founding member of the New England Woman's Suffrage Association and later as the president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Of the original suffragettes, she was only one of a few who lived long enough to see her dream of women gaining the right to vote materialize. Olympia also published a book in 1911, entitled Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers, which is her own account of her life and activities with many references to her contemporaries. She also published a memorial sketch of Clara B. Colby, in 1917, called Democratic Ideals. An elementary school in Racine was named in Brown's honor in 1975. In 1999 she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
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She was then a Universalist minister at several churches during her lifetime.
The following year, when a Republican legislature in Kansas submitted to the vote of the people of that state a proposition to amend the state constitution by striking out the word "male, " suffrage leaders selected her to campaign for the cause in Kansas.
In the presidential campaign of 1924, she was an ardent supporter of Robert M. La Follette.
She was a member of the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, of the New England Woman's Suffrage Association, and of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
Quotes from others about the person
When she died in Baltimore, an editorial in the Baltimore Sun said of her, "Perhaps no phase of her life better exemplified her vitality and intellectual independence than the mental discomfort she succeeded in arousing, between her eightieth and ninetieth birthdays, among conservatively-minded Baltimoreans. "
In April 1873 she married John Henry Willis, a printer and newspaper-man. By agreement with her husband she retained her maiden name and in all her public work was known as the Rev. Olympia Brown.
In 1914 she decided to make Baltimore her home and live with her daughter, Gwendolen B. Willis.
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