Julia Bullard Nelson
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Julia Bullard Nelson was an American temperance and women's rights activist from Red Wing, Minnesota. Following the death of her husband and their only child, she went south to Texas, in 1869, to teac
Julia B. Nelson, c. 1866
Portrait of Julia Bullard Nelson in Galveston, Texas, c. 1869.
Martha Ripley
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Martha George Rogers Ripley was an American physician, suffragist, and professor of medicine. Founder of the Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Ripley was one of the most outspoken activist
Julia Bullard Nelson
…the Minnesota White Ribboner. "Julia B." made good use of summers free from teaching duty. In 1881, she joined fourteen other women, including Dr. Martha George Ripley and Sarah Burger Stearns, in forming the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA). The MWSA led the state effort to allow women to vote, a right…
Martha Ripley Atwater
Maternity Hospital in 2008
Minnesota State Capitol plaque