The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-18
WOMEN GLOR|FY
FEMININE ACTS
Prepare List Of Seventy Five
lmmOrtalS For Names Of
Public Buildings.
WILL URGE THEIR ADOPTION

New York, Jan is. Seventy five
feminine immOrtab have been listed
by the Empire Stat Campaign com
mittec, II was announced Yesterday.
and the list, after some revision. will
be presented 10 the board ~ education
with the suggestion That these names
be used for some Of 'hc public schools
The BOnrd has prrwrd % tentative
list Uf 300 names to Doe substituted for
numbers ~ these only fifteen are Of
women
The list was prepared hy the Cole
gialr Equal Suffragy League who's"
president IS Mrs. Churlr- Tiffany. It
represents the suggestions of various
women active in the cause
For Humanity.
Except for the group of Rryolu
ilonnry hrrOncs the choice has fallen
upon women who did notable construr
tive work for the cause ~ humanity. ."
rNpnined Miss Ros" Young, II the
campaign headquarters "lf there are
poets II, well as philanthrOlast. and
social rpfOrmrrs, scientists ana cducH
tors on the list. that II because the
poets ns we'll as m" others, were i'm
hucd with the spirit ~ socinl service
aud voiced that spirit in what they
wrote and In their public cspousals Of
humanitys cause.
1T would be the preference VI the
committee to subordinate mnrtlnl
achievement, In wOmcns record. az
well as mems 10 work " cunstruc.
tive nature hut II military heroes are
10 be glorlflcd the committee feels thai
military herolnes must not be neglect
ed
The wOlncn who played All import
nut pHrt In the anti slavery agitation
carrying Oh that work I'm connection
with their 'wOman's rights agitation
form II group any one " whom IN,
committee finds II hard 10 slight. 4
number u names not ON the submitted
list undoubtedly will be- placed on the
[ final llat
Educators also are 10 have much
fuller complement IN the ultimat,
choice II Is considered that the pio
neer women " Colonial and Revolu
/ tlonary days are likewise entitled I,
| fuller representation Working won
IN prominent In the struggle to bet
ter Industrial conditions women NJ
the merit " Virginia Penny will b,
adequately represented
The List.
The list, which Includes English anr
American women, is ~ follows: Louis,
VI. Alcott Jnne Austen. Hnnnal
Adams. Abigail Adams. Elizabeth A
Allen, Mary Astcl. Elizabeth Black
/ well Emily blackwell. Ethclindi
Beers, Fanny BurncN Anne Brad
/ street, Charlotte Rruntc. Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. Anna Letita Bar
hauld. Mrs. Martha Brattun. Rebecci
Barlow, Elizabeth Bond JoSephin,
Butler Margaret Brent Lille Deve
reuX Blake, Jennie June" Croly. Mar
garct Curhin. Hannah Cowley. Ros,
Terry Cooke. Angeln Burdett Couttp
Jane Welsh Carlyle, Charlotte Cush
man, Lydia NJ. child. Mary Y. Carpen
ter, Frances Power Cobbe. Mary Vic
toria Clarke, Hannah Connnt AllaoI
Rutherford Cockburn Grace Dodge
Dorothea Lynde Dix, Grace Darling
Anna Dickinson. Lydia Darrnh Am
Hutchinson, Nancy Hart. Octavi,
Hlll Mrs Hannah Erwin Israel Deb
orah LamsOn, Dlcey Langston. Mar,
Lyon, Josephine Shaw. Lowell. Idt
Lewis Harriet Martineau. Mary Wnrt
ley Montague Maria Mitchell AIic
Freeman Palmer MOllie Pitcher. Adc
laide Anne Proctor, Caroline VI Sey
erance, Mary Somerville, Lady Henr,
Somerset, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cad,
stanton, Maria SedgWick. Mrs FliZ,
Wilkinson, Mary Washington. Mar
Lowell Ware Mary Wolstoncraft
Frances willard Mary willard. Mn
Katherine Draper, Sarah Plat Decker
H"oroe Eliot Mrs Charles Elliott
Elizabeth FRY Reheccn Franks Mar
mret Fuller. Matilda ]. Gavc. Elizn
beth Gilbert the Grimkc sisters