COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
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
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born: 1801 at Norfolk (Va.)
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a statue in her honor at Laramie was dedicated in front of Women's History House (2005)
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returned to Maryland
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husband: relocated to Zanesville (Ohio), later to Indiana
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Swain, Stephen F. (husband, born: 1795 - married: 1821 - died: Oct. 6, 1872 (age: 76-77) - buried: Friends Cemetery at Baltimore (Md.)
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children: Alfred G.
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died: Jan. 25, 1880 (age: 78-79), at Lutherville (Md.)
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buried in Friends Cemetery (Plot: F 124 - Memorial ID: 34374063) [or Friends Burial Grounds] at Baltimore
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she and mother moved to Charleston (S. C. - o/a 1808)
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after mother's death, went to Baltimore (Md.) - lived with uncle, Ephraim Gardner
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right of Woman Suffrage given to Wyoming women (Dec. 10, 1869)
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first woman voter in Wyoming and world to vote in general election under laws guaranteeing political equality for women
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she cast vote at Laramie (Albany Co., Wyo. - Sep. 6, 1870), where polls were first to open
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continued to Laramie (Wyo. Terr. - 1869, now in Albany Co., Wyo.)
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