ACHESON, Mrs. Sarah C.
Temperance worker Sarah C. Acheson was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, on February 20, 1844.<br /><br />Sarah, sometimes known as Sadie, married Dr. Alexander Wilson Acheson and became the mother to several children. The family moved to Denison, Texas, in the 1870s.<br /><br />She served as the first president the Woman's Christian Temperance Unon of Texas and wrote for its publication, <em>The White Ribbon</em>. Sarah, along with <a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/51" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ellen Lawson Dabbs</a>, Elizabeth Turner Fry, and several other women, was a charter member of the Texas Equal Rights Association. In addition, she was very involved with philanthropic work in Denison.<br /><br />Sarah passed away in Denison on January 16, 1899, She was buried in Fairview Cemetery. On May 12 of that year, the Texas WCTU held a memorial service for Sarah at its convention in Denison.
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DWYER, Miss Bessie Agnes
<span>Bessie Agnes Dwyer, the youngest daughter of Judge Thomas A. Dwyer, was born on September 29, 1866, in Nueces County, Texas. The multi-talented Bessie became the first woman of Texas to earn a legal degree, the first woman to enter the library services at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the first woman to present the name of the presidential candidate to a Party convention. <span style="font-weight: 400;">Bessie passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in the Philippines during World War II.</span></span>
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BAYLOR, Miss Frances Courtenay
<p>Author, novelist, and playwright Frances Courtenay Baylor, who was born on January 20, 1848, hailed from Fayetteville, Arkansas. During her lifetime, she also called San Antonio, Texas, England, and Winchester, Virginia, home. <br /><br />She wrote pieces such as "Small Courtesies" in <em>Lippincott's Magazine. <span> </span></em>In addition, readers would have found her work in<span> </span><em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>,<span> </span><em>The Princeton Review</em>, and <em>The </em><em>Richmond Times-Dispatch</em>. Her <a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrn1;cc=moajrn1;q1=Baylor;rgn=full%20text;view=image;seq=258;idno=atla0052-2;node=atla0052-2%3A11;page=root;size=100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"In the Old Dominion"</a><span> </span>was written for <em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Atlantic Monthly</a> </em>during 1883, when Frances was living in Winchester, Virginia. <br /><br />Frances penned a play, "Petruchio Tamed," early in her career and found success with novels such as <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/onbothsidesanov01baylgoog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On Both Sides</a> </em>and <a href="https://archive.org/details/behindblueridge00baylgoog" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Behind the Blue Ridge</em></a>.<br /><br />Her <em>A Woman of the Century</em> profile concludes: "Miss Baylor deservedly ranks high as an author of remarkable powers of observation, of judgment, of humorous comment, and of philosophic generalization"(66).</p>
<p>She married George Barnum in 1896, but quickly became a widow. Frances passed away in Winchester, Virginia, on October 19, 1920.</p>
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DABBS, Mrs. Ellen Lawson
<p>Ellen Lawson Dabbs, M.D. knew from<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1904-11-13/ed-1/seq-18/#date1=1789&index=4&rows=20&words=Dabbs+Ellen+Lawson&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=ellen+lawson+dabbs&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> personal experience</a> how important it was for women to get an education and have a profession, so she accepted leadership positions in various organizations, knowing that her voice would be heard on women's rights and other key issues well beyond Texas.</p>
<p>Some of those organizations were the Texas Woman's Press Association, the Industrial Union, and the Texas Equal Rights Association.</p>
<p>During her career, she also clerked for her husband, merchant Joseph Wilkes Dabbs, presented at <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858028562951;view=1up;seq=337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conferences</a>, and wrote for the <em>National Economist</em>.</p>
<p>Ellen found time for all of these activities while also being a wife and mother. </p>
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