Susan Frances Nelson Ferree
Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (, Nelson; January 14, 1844 - September 30, 1919) was an American journalist and social activist from Iowa. Ferree served as a Washington, D.C. newspaper correspondent. She favored women's suffrage and women's rights; she also affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Ferree died in 1919. Biography. Susan Frances Nelson was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, January 14, 1844. Her parents were Frances S. Wray Nelson and John S. Nelson, who was a lineal descent of Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson, the founder of Old York, Virginia. His oldest son, William  Nelson, was at one time president of the king's council. William's oldest son, Thomas Nelson Jr., was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the war governor of Virginia. At the age of one year she, with her parents removed to Keokuk, Iowa, which was her home for many years. Ferree wrote poetry, but her forte was journalism, especially her newspaper correspondence from Washington, D.C. She supported temperance and the advancement of woman. In 1860, she married Jerome Dial Ferree (1838–1914), a business man in Ottumwa, Iowa, and they resided in that town. She was  a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Woman's Relief Corps, the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the local WCTU. In religion, Ferree was Episcopalian, and a communicant of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, of Ottumwa. By 1908, she had removed to San Diego, California, where she died September 30, 1919.