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Title	Suffrage Handbills
Subject	Civil Liberties Ohio Women Temperance Suffrage
Place	Alliance (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio) Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	These two handbills belonged to temperance activist Martha McClellan Brown. The first, printed circa 1910, points out that women were allowed to vote in several other countries and asks, "Why not in Ohio?" A second handbill announces who may and may not vote in the United States, pointing out that women are not on the list. The handbills are one page each and measure 3" x 5.75" (7.62 x 14.61 cm). Martha McClellan Brown (1838-1916) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Pittsburgh Female College in 1862 at the head of her class. Brown began her temperance career in 1861 when she joined the Independent Order of Good Templars, a fraternal organization modeled on the Masons and dedicated to the cause of total abstinence and state prohibition. In 1868, she took over the editorship of a local weekly newspaper in Alliance, Ohio, the Monitor. She and her husband, Reverend William K. Brown, ran the paper until 1878, turning it into a temperance publication. In 1872, she was chosen grand chief templar of Ohio and held the post for two years. At a statewide temperance rally in Columbus in February 1874, Brown helped form the Women's Temperance Association of Ohio. She drafted the plan of work and the call for a convention to be held in Cleveland in November 1874. At that convention, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded. In her later years, Brown became active in the Prohibition Party. In 1876, she was named vice-president and a member of the platform committee at the national convention of the Prohibition Party and fought hard for the inclusion of woman suffrage in the party's platform. Her interests began to shift to the academic sphere, and in 1882, she assumed the positions of vice president and professor of art, literature, and philosophy at the Cincinnati Wesleyan Women's College. Brown became increasingly prominent in Cincinnati philanthropic and civic affairs, and continued her involvement in the suffrage movement and women's club movement. She frequently lectured and wrote articles on temperance, education, literary, and civic subjects.
Date of Original	1910 circa
Collection	Martha McClellan Brown Papers
Source	Published material MS 147
Submitting Institution	Wright State University
Type	Text

Title	Om1556_2564104_035
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1556_2564104_035.tif
Image Height	3139
Image Width	1821
File Size	1458.379 KB
Full Text	Women Vote ON EQUAL TERMS WITH MEN IN Australia, New Zealand, Pinland and Norway ALSO IN Wyoming, Colorado, Utah / ^ ^nd Idaho m

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