Background
Alison Low Turnbull was born in 1880, to Frank and Marion Louise Bates Turnbull, in Morristown, New Jersey. Her father was a naval officer
Alison Low Turnbull was born in 1880, to Frank and Marion Louise Bates Turnbull, in Morristown, New Jersey. Her father was a naval officer
She was privately tutored and received no other schooling. Alison Turnbull Hopkins was on the executive board of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and was New Jersey state chair for the National Woman"s Party. Among her notable political stunts was a speaking tour through Illinois in a car bearing the slogan "Don"t Vote for Wilson," following William Jennings Bryan on his lecture tour.
On Bastille Day in 1917, she was part of a group of suffrage protesters arrested at the White House.
She returned to her White House protest after this incident, displaying a sign that read "We ask not pardon for ourselves but justice for all American women." Having spent any time at all in Occoquan Workhouse was a matter of pride among American suffragists. Mistress Hopkins posed in her prison garb for publicity photos, lectured on the experience, and received honors as an imprisoned picket for several years after the event.
She was also active in local Morristown charities and women"s clubs, and was a member of Heterodoxy, a women"s debating club based in New York City.