caption death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date image article_title birth_name
ueland , ca. 1915 01 march 1927 minnesota akron , ohio clara ueland 10 october 1860 clara hampson ueland.jpg clara ueland
 clara hampson
clara ueland

clara hampson ueland -lrb- october 10 , 1860 - march 1 , 1927 -rrb- was an american community activist and suffragist .
she was the first president of the minnesota league of women voters and worked to advance public welfare legislation .
she was the mother of writer brenda ueland , who wrote a biography of her later published as `` o clouds , unfold ! '' .
clara hampson was born on october 10 , 1860 in akron , ohio .
she married lawyer andreas ueland in 1885 .
the couple and their three eldest daughters moved into a sixteen-room house on the south shore of lake calhoun in 1891 .
clara taught kindergarten in her home and worked to establish kindergartens in the schools of minneapolis .
ueland travelled to connecticut in 1920 as part of the `` emergency suffrage corps ' '' to protest governor marcus h. holcomb 's refusal to call a special session to ratify the suffrage amendment .
in 1921 , she was appointed chair of the minneapolis fundraising committee for the woodrow wilson foundation .
she was presented the pen that minnesota governor joseph a. a. burnquist used when signing the presidential suffrage bill .
in 1925 , ueland criticized republican foreign policy and `` back-door '' cooperation with the league of nations , saying `` we have got to spread the gospel among the women , telling them that they are paying too much for cotton and woolen goods , for aluminumware and that the country can not recover from hard times unless we reduce the tariff . ''
she died after being struck by a truck as she was crossing the street near her home on march 1 , 1927 .
