After her graduation in 1884, she returned to Ohio. Minnie married Benjamin C. Trago on May 9, 1885, but their marriage was not a happy one. She left in 1886 for two years abroad, in Vienna and Paris, to hone her medical skills. Next, Minnie returned to Portsmouth and became president of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine. She married Dr. Charles F. Dight in 1892, and the couple lived in Faribault, Minnesota, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New Orleans, Louisiana, Chicago, Illinois, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until their divorce in 1899. In addition to her work as a physician, Minnie was involved with social reform.
During the first decade of the twentieth century, Minnie returned to Vienna and Paris. When she came back to the United States in 1913, Minnie lived in New York City and had her summer cottage, Rocky Knoll, in Colebrook, New Hampshire. In 1921, Minnie planned to build a winter home in the Washington suburbs. She passed away in Colebrook on February 8, 1923.
]]>Mrs. Mary A. G.. Dight, also known as "Minnie," was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, on November 7, 1860. A talented musician, she attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. When she decided to change career paths to become a physician, Minnie attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
After her graduation in 1884, she returned to Ohio. Minnie married Benjamin C. Trago on May 9, 1885, but their marriage was not a happy one. She left in 1886 for two years abroad, in Vienna and Paris, to hone her medical skills. Next, Minnie returned to Portsmouth and became president of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine. She married Dr. Charles F. Dight in 1892, and the couple lived in Faribault, Minnesota, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New Orleans, Louisiana, Chicago, Illinois, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until their divorce in 1899. In addition to her work as a physician, Minnie was involved with social reform.
During the first decade of the twentieth century, Minnie returned to Vienna and Paris. When she came back to the United States in 1913, Minnie lived in New York City and had her summer cottage, Rocky Knoll, in Colebrook, New Hampshire. In 1921, Minnie planned to build a winter home in the Washington suburbs. She passed away in Colebrook on February 8, 1923.
Mary Allice Glidden Crawford in the Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993. Film Number: 000292697. Located on Ancestry.com.
She passed away on August 1, 1921.
]]>Helen Vickroy Austin was born in Miamisburg, Ohio on July 19, 1829. She later lived in Ferndale, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Indiana, and Vineland, New Jersey. Helen married William W. Austin in 1850 and became the mother of three children.
She was a horticulturalist, journalist, philanthropist, reformer, temperance worker, and suffragist.
On May 18 and 19, 1870, Helen, her sister Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd, her brother-in-law S.S. Boyd, and other local women and men led the Mass Convention in the Lyceum Hall in Richmond, Indiana to discuss women's rights. By June of 1872, she was serving as corresponding secretary of the Indiana Womans' Suffrage Association. Helen also served as Secretary for the Woman's Christian Association in Richmond during that decade. By 1874, she was a correspondent for The Daily Independent.
Helen was a member of the Daughters of Temperance, the National Woman's Indian Rights Association, the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association, the Woman's Christian Associaiton, and The Travelers' League.
She passed away on August 1, 1921.
Upon her return to Cincinnati, Emma began to deliver lectures. Her A Woman of the Century profile notes: "She was one of the first women who presented parlor lectures on literature in the West" (481). On February 11, 1879, The Cincinnati Daily Star advertised one of her upcoming lectures: "Miss Emma McAvoy will deliver, at College Hall, on the evening of the 28th of February, an evening lecture on the subject, 'The Ode and Errors in Conversation.'" Other lectures over the next two years were on "Sonnet, with Hints for Improvement in Conversation," and "The World's Conversationalists."
As a popular figure on the lecture circuit, Emma often received praise in the press. For example, a week before her 1884 speech in Omaha, Nebraska, The Omaha Daily Bee advertised:
"On next Monday evening, November 24th, Miss Emma McAvoy will lecture on the subject, 'Hints for Improvement in Conversation.' The lady has just delivered four lectures in Denver, and is said to be a pleasing speaker."
She also gave "an able address well delivered" on "Books" in Denver, Colorado, and a "well attended and thoroughly enjoyed" lecture on "Conversation" in Maysville, Kentucky, during 1896. Emma was still lecturing by 1900, when she lived in Cincinnati with her sister Mary.
Emma passed away on February 4, 1919, and is buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery.
Emma McAvoy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 23, 1841. Author and lecturer are the occupations listed at the beginning of her A Woman of the Century profile, but Miss McAvoy's career included other professions.
Like many women of her time, this daughter of an Irish immigrant began her career as a teacher. In April of 1859, Emma was appointed as a teacher in Cincinnati's Third District with a salary of twenty dollars. Her salary may have been low because she was hired in April, since she is listed as having earned three hundred dollars the next year. Later, Emma served as a principal in Kansas City, Missouri.
Upon her return to Cincinnati, Emma began to deliver lectures. Her A Woman of the Century profile notes: "She was one of the first women who presented parlor lectures on literature in the West" (481). On February 11, 1879, The Cincinnati Daily Star advertised one of her upcoming lectures: "Miss Emma McAvoy will deliver, at College Hall, on the evening of the 28th of February, an evening lecture on the subject, 'The Ode and Errors in Conversation.'" Other lectures over the next two years were on "Sonnet, with Hints for Improvement in Conversation," and "The World's Conversationalists."
As a popular figure on the lecture circuit, Emma often received praise in the press. For example, a week before her 1884 speech in Omaha, Nebraska, The Omaha Daily Bee advertised:
"On next Monday evening, November 24th, Miss Emma McAvoy will lecture on the subject, 'Hints for Improvement in Conversation.' The lady has just delivered four lectures in Denver, and is said to be a pleasing speaker."
She also gave "an able address well delivered" on "Books" in Denver, Colorado, and a "well attended and thoroughly enjoyed" lecture on "Conversation" in Maysville, Kentucky, during 1896. Emma was still lecturing by 1900, when she lived in Cincinnati with her sister Mary.
Emma passed away on February 4, 1919, and is buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery.
Married at the early age of twenty to Walter S. Wait, on December 13, 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War, her husband enlisted and being the sole caregiver for their son, Alfred Hovey Wait, she provided for them both by teaching.
Due to her husband's poor health, she had to forsake teaching and get involved in the Lincoln "Beacon" a reform paper they started in 1880.
She played an active role in the business world, advocated for social change on equality among other pursuits. She died on May 9, 1916.
During her life, Mrs. Wait actively participated in the Lincoln, Kansas Woman Suffrage Association and the Ohio Equal Suffrage Association. Mrs. Anna Wait performed many official roles in thse suffrage organizations as well as in the State Equal Suffrage Association, in 1884. Her advocacy led to the passing of suffrage legislation in Kansas bestowing municipal suffrage on women there.
]]>Born Anna A. Churchill, on March 26, 1837 in Medina County, Ohio, suffargist, orator, teacher and newspaper owner Mrs. Anna C. Wait was a notable woman. An early entrepreneur, from the age of eleven she prided herself in being self-supporting.
Married at the early age of twenty to Walter S. Wait, on December 13, 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War, her husband enlisted and being the sole caregiver for their son, Alfred Hovey Wait, she provided for them both by teaching.
Due to her husband's poor health, she had to forsake teaching and get involved in the Lincoln "Beacon" a reform paper they started in 1880.
She played an active role in the business world, advocated for social change on equality among other pursuits. She died on May 9, 1916.
During her life, Mrs. Wait actively participated in the Lincoln, Kansas Woman Suffrage Association and the Ohio Equal Suffrage Association. Mrs. Anna Wait performed many official roles in thse suffrage organizations as well as in the State Equal Suffrage Association, in 1884. Her advocacy led to the passing of suffrage legislation in Kansas bestowing municipal suffrage on women there.