Title	Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Eliza Swain
Collection Name	WPA Collection
Collection Number	WPA Bio 1755
Item Description	Swain, Eliza - Biographical information for Mrs. Louisa Ann "Eliza" Gardner Swain; "Mrs. Eliza A. Swain First Woman Voter" in Women of Wyoming by Cora M. Beach
Date	Undated
Link to Finding Aid	https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes	born: 1801 at Norfolk (Va.)
Notes	a statue in her honor at Laramie was dedicated in front of Women's History House (2005)
Notes	returned to Maryland
Notes	husband: relocated to Zanesville (Ohio), later to Indiana
Notes	Swain, Stephen F. (husband, born: 1795 - married: 1821 - died: Oct. 6, 1872 (age: 76-77) - buried: Friends Cemetery at Baltimore (Md.)
Notes	children: Alfred G.
Notes	died: Jan. 25, 1880 (age: 78-79), at Lutherville (Md.)
Notes	buried in Friends Cemetery (Plot: F 124 - Memorial ID: 34374063) [or Friends Burial Grounds] at Baltimore
Notes	she and mother moved to Charleston (S. C. - o/a 1808)
Notes	after mother's death, went to Baltimore (Md.) - lived with uncle, Ephraim Gardner
Notes	right of Woman Suffrage given to Wyoming women (Dec. 10, 1869)
Notes	first woman voter in Wyoming and world to vote in general election under laws guaranteeing political equality for women
Notes	she cast vote at Laramie (Albany Co., Wyo. - Sep. 6, 1870), where polls were first to open
Notes	continued to Laramie (Wyo. Terr. - 1869, now in Albany Co., Wyo.)
Rights	No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type	Text
