Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–1926) was an American feminist.[1]
Biography
Caroline Nichols Churchill was born in Pickering, Ontario, Canada on December 23, 1833 to American parents.[2][3] She emigrated to the United States to live with her grandmother in 1846.[4] She taught in Minnesota in 1857.[3] Her husband died in 1862, and she moved to California after she contracted tuberculosis.[4] She campaigned against misogynistic state laws there.[4]
In 1879, she founded the first feminist newspaper in Denver called the Colorado Antelope, lately known as the Queen Bee.[2][5][6][7] She supported women's suffrage, and opposed temperence and Catholicism.[1] She later moved in with her sister in Colorado Springs until her death in 1926.[3]
Bibliography
- Little Sheaves (1874)
- Over the Purple Hills, or Sketches from Travel in California (1883)
- Active Footsteps (1909)
References
- ^ a b Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
- ^ a b Women of the West Museum
- ^ a b c Gayle Corbett Shirley, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women, TwoDot, 2002, pp. 72-73 [1]
- ^ a b c Siera Nevada Virtual Museum
- ^ Sarah Palin, America by Heart, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010, p.146
- ^ Susan H. Armitage, Elizabeth Jameson, The Women's West, University of Oklahoma Press, 1987, p. 268 [2]
- ^ Jan Whitt, Women in American Journalism: A New History, University of Illinois Press, 2008, p. 109 [3]
Further reading
- Willard, Frances Elizabeth American Women Volume 1. New York, 1897.
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