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
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Maternity Hospital in 2008
Minnesota State Capitol plaque
The Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association operated from 1881 to 1920. The organization was part of the broader women's suffrage movement in the United States and it sought to secure the right of women
Martha Ripley
…activists for disadvantaged female rights. A prominent leader in the American Woman Suffrage Association, Ripley also served six years as president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Martha George Rogers was born November 30, 1843, in Lowell, Vermont, the oldest of five children of Esther Ann (George) and Francis Rogers, a stock…
Sarah Burger Stearns was named the organization's first president in 1881.
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial at the State Capitol in 2021.