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Fr‚mont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902

Description

1 letter to Mrs. Capen.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
before 1902
Call number
mssSeverance papers
Creator
Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (1820-1914)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Historical Society of Southern California, September 18, 1974.
Gift of Mike Emett, February 12, 1975.
Gift of L.A. 200 Committee, October 26, 1983.
Associated people
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906.)
Avery, Susan Look. (1857-1950.)
Blackwell, Alice Stone, (1818-1895.)
Douglass, Frederick, (1824-1902.)
Ferguson, Georgia Ransom Fay. (1838-1909.)
Frémont, Jessie Benton, (1860-1935.)
Garrison, William Lloyd, (1850-1910.)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, (1843-1925.)
Graham, Margaret Collier, (1842-1919.)
Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, (1822-1907.)
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, (1819-1910.)
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, (1876-1916.)
Howe, Julia Ward, (1859-1928.)
London, Jack, (1818-1889.)
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, (1840-1909.)
Mitchell, Maria, (1861-1961.)
Modjeska, Helena, (1851-1917.)
Park, Alice, (1839-1917.)
Ruddy, Ella Giles, (1844-1920.)
Sanborn, Kate, (1847-1919.)
Sargent, Ellen Clark. (1818-1893.)
Sewall, May Wright, (1865-1945.)
Shaw, Anna Howard, (1845-1924.)
Stearns, Sarah B. (1856-1915.)
Stone, Lucy, (1844-1931.)
Ward, Henry Baldwin, (1856-1923.)
Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley, (1861-1927.)
Washington, Booker T., (1868-1942.)
Wendte, Charles W. (1829-1902.)
Wiggin, Kate Douglas,
Wilshire, Gaylord,
Wilson, J. Stitt
Zakrzewska, Marie E.
Associated organizations
Association for the Advancement of Women.
Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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