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  Historical Gazette: Abigail Scott Duniway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail (Jenny) Scott came overland with her parents in 1852 to Oregon.
At age 18, Scott, a self-taught school teacher, married Ben Duniway, a handsome, young horse rancher.
Duniway wrote novels that she serialized in her paper that always had themes which showed the plight of women in the status-oriented society of her times.
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 Oregon Blue Book: Notables- Harvey Scott
Harvey Scott was born in 1838 and raised on a family farm near Groveland, Illinois.
Scott served as the president of the Lewis and Clark Exposition from 1903 to 1905 and he was director of the Associated Press from 1900 to 1910.
He opposed his famous sister, Abigail Scott Duniway, on the issue of women's suffrage and he died two years before seeing her dream become a reality in Oregon in 1912.
bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notscott.htm   (249 words)

  
 Edna and John, A Romance of Idaho Flat by Abigail Scott Duniway
Abigail Scott Duniway's novels, which depicted the actual conditions that plagued women and suggested new courses of action that would remedy the injustices she described, were instrumental in bringing about many of the early victories in the West.
Duniway foresaw that prohibition would be ineffectual, but, more importantly, she was keenly aware that agitation by women for prohibition would delay gaining voting rights, which had to be granted by men.
Duniway wrote Oregon's Equal Suffrage Proclamation in her own hand at the behest of governor Oswald West, and was the first woman in the state to register to vote." p.
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 Abigail Scott Duniway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail Scott Duniway, a leader in Idaho’s suffrage movement, was born on a farm in Illinois in 1834.
"Duniway reported that she had given over 140 public lectures in Idaho from 1876 to 1895, and had been obliged to travel an aggregate of over 12,000 miles by river, rail, stage and buckboard" (Jean M. Ward and Elaine A. Maveety, "Yours for Liberty": Selections From Abigail Scott Duniway’s Suffrage Newspaper).
Duniway wrote and signed (along with the governor) Oregon’s Equal Suffrage Proclamation, and was the first woman in the state to register to vote.
www.boisepubliclibrary.org /Ref/guideduniway.shtml   (937 words)

  
 WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage - Oregon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail Jane Scott was born in Illinois in 1834.
Duniway's suffrage work in the Northwest soon put her in conflict with the national suffrage and temperance movement leaders.
Duniway's remarkable career as a journalist, lecturer, and suffrage organizer ended when she died in 1915.
www.autry-museum.org /explore/exhibits/suffrage/abigail3_full.html   (556 words)

  
 Duniway, Abigail Jane Scott
Born in Groveland, Illinois, on October 22, 1834, Abigail Scott was of a large and hardworking farm family and received only scanty schooling.
The Duniway farm was lost in 1862 through a poor business deal entered into by her husband without her knowledge; shortly after losing the farm her husband was disabled.
Duniway had closed the New Northwest in 1887; in 1894 she returned to Portland and in 1895 became editor of the weekly Pacific Empire, through which she resumed the battle for woman suffrage.
www.search.eb.com /women/articles/Duniway_Abigail_Jane_Scott.html   (520 words)

  
 Oregon Blue Book: Notables- Abigail Duniway
Abigail Jane Scott was born and raised on a family farm near Groveland, Illinois.
Her parents, John Tucker Scott and Anne Roelofson, led the family on the Oregon Trail in 1852.
Abigail, age 17, recorded the difficult crossing in her journal.
bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notduniway.htm   (255 words)

  
 WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage - Oregon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But Duniway was also an accomplished journalist, and her brainchild The New Northwest was one of the West's earliest and most widely read suffrage newspapers.
Duniway also believed that local and regional leadership was key to winning the vote for women in the West.
Abigail Scott Duniway was approaching 80 when she co-signed the suffrage proclamation with Governor Oswald West and took the honor of registering as Oregon's first woman voter.
www.autry-museum.org /explore/exhibits/suffrage/suffrage_or.html   (586 words)

  
 Duniway renovation underway in Allen
Abigail Scott Duniway began her 41-year struggle to help earn women the right to vote by starting her own newspaper, The New Northwest, in 1871.
Duniway traveled and stumped tirelessly for the cause in the face of opposition from her own brother, Harvey Scott, and his influential editorials in The Oregonian.
Abigail wrote the proclamation and was the first woman to register to vote in Oregon.
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 Abigail Scott Duniway
Abigail Jane Scott was born October 22, 1834 near Groveland, Illinois, to John Tucker Scott and Anne Roelofson.
It was Abigail's duty to record the difficult trip in her journal.
Abigail is pictured delivering a proclamation that women should have the right to vote in Oregon.
mcel.pacificu.edu /history/herrick/duniway.html   (224 words)

  
 Oregon History ProjectOregon Biographies Harvey Scott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Scott was born on a farm near Groveland, Illinois the son of John Tucker Scott and Ann Roelofson and brother to Abigail Scott Duniway.
Scott did, however, assumed the presidencies of the Oregon Historical Society from 1898-1901, and the Lewis and Clark Exposition from 1903-1904, as well as the directorship of the Associated Press 1900-1904.
Scott also advocated “sound money” and led a campaign against the Greenback movement and Free Silver.
www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Harvey-Scott.cfm   (600 words)

  
 Abigail Scott Duniway (Part 2)
Abigail was furious and told her husband the story.
Abigail’s introductory speech was so eloquently given that soon she was being asked to give talks herself.
Abigail traveled to Washington State with Anthony and gave some speeches of her own.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/87292   (458 words)

  
 Abigail Scott Duniway (Part 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail Jane Scott was born on October 22, 1834 to Ann and John Tucker Scott.
All her life Abigail would suffer from chronic weakness of the spine and, in later years, was crippled by rheumatoid arthritis.
Abigail was thrilled to get away from the drudgery of farm life.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3439/87204   (433 words)

  
 Entrepreneur Duniway urged women's suffrage - 2005-01-03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail Jane Scott was born in Illinois on Oct. 22, 1834.
Abigail later wrote that the memory of her mother was one of the driving factors behind her decision to devote her life to the enfranchisement of women.
Duniway had the honor of being the first woman in Multnomah County to register to vote, a right she had battled to gain for more than 40 years.
portland.bizjournals.com /portland/stories/2005/01/03/focus5.html   (1118 words)

  
 Abigail Scott Duniway -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
She grew up on the family farm, and in 1852 she traveled the (additional info and facts about Oregon Trail) Oregon Trail with her family.
She taught school in Cincinnati ((additional info and facts about now Eola) now Eola), (A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific) Oregon before marrying Benjamin C. Duniway in 1853.
After her husband's severe injury in 1862, she supported the family by teaching and running a (Hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner) millinery in (additional info and facts about Albany, Oregon) Albany, Oregon.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ab/Abigail_Scott_Duniway.htm   (267 words)

  
 Esther Roelofson & Abigail Duniway - Notable Women Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail Scott Duniway kept the diary of their family's experiences along the trail.
Abigail's grandson (David C. Duniway) was the founder of the Oregon State Archives.
Abigail Scott Duniway (Esther's niece and my first cousin 4 times removed) was the first woman to cast her vote in the state of Oregon.
www.rootsweb.com /~nwa/esther.html   (248 words)

  
 The New Northwest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Northwest was a weekly Portland, Oregon newspaper published from 1871 to 1887 by Abigail Scott Duniway, an active voice of reform and suffrage on the West Coast of the United States.
The paper included news reports, essays, travel correspondence (such as trips Duniway took with Susan B. Anthony), and serialized fiction such as that edited into the novel Edna and John: A Romance of Idaho Flat (ISBN 0874221889).
Selections from the newspaper were included in Yours for Liberty: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper (ISBN 0870714740) from the Oregon State University Press.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_New_Northwest   (172 words)

  
 Spreading the Light:Abigail S. Duniway ** By: Dorothy M.Ashe
Duniway maintained that the strategy of the suffrage-prohibition coalition was polarizing those voting males.
Duniway believed so strongly in this proposition that she made it the core of the preface to her autobiography, Path Breaking.
Duniway was impatient with the analogy, calling it a "state argument," for laws against murder and horse-stealing were passed by common and undisputed consent, support that prohibition did not have.
www.moondance.org /1998/summer98/sns/ss3.html   (1510 words)

  
 OSU Press at Oregon State University
Between 1871 and 1887, Duniway, a leader in the woman suffrage movement, chronicled this "true history" in the pages of The New Northwest, one of the few newspapers in the nation devoted to woman's advancement.
Duniway's wit and love of adventure are evident in lively tales of attending seances, falling off stagecoaches, being egged and hung in effigy, and barnstorming the Pacific Northwest in the company of Susan B. Anthony.
In their introductory essay, Jean Ward and Elaine Maveety provide a context for Duniway's tireless fight for reform and examine her remarkable career as an editor, writer, and suffragist.
oregonstate.edu /dept/press/k-l/liberty.html   (389 words)

  
 PCPA - Abigail - A Children's Opera
Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915), considered “Oregon’s grand old lady,” traveled on the Oregon Trail in 1852 with her family.
For a number of years, she and her husband Ben Duniway owned a farm in the Willamette Valley, but after a farming injury which left Ben unable to work, Abigail opened a millinery shop in Albany, Oregon in 1863.
Abigail Scott Duniway was asked by Governor Oswald West to draft the Women’s Suffrage Proclamation and through Governor West’s efforts, Abigail Scott Duniway was the first woman to register to vote in the State of Oregon.
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 Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
Abigail Scott was born Oct 22, 1834 on the family farm near Groveland, Illinois.
Abigail Scott Duniway penned her life story in 1914, Path Breaking.
Abigail Scott Duniway died October 11, 1915 and her ashes are interred in the grave of her daughter, Clara Belle Duniway Stearns.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5954241   (274 words)

  
 irtest: UO non-production scholarsbank clone: Item 1794/256
Abigail Jane (Scott) Duniway (1834-1915), author, suffragist and newspaper publisher, wrote the first commercially printed novel in Oregon, Captain Gray’s Company (1859), based on the journal she kept as she crossed the plains with her family in 1852.
Partly through Duniway’s efforts, in 1912 Oregon became the 7th state in the Union to pass a suffrage amendment.
Duniway was the first woman to register to vote in Multnomah County.
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 Book looks at Abigail Scott Duniway's newspaper
Based in Portland, far from the center of the suffrage movement, Duniway published one of the few newspapers in the nation devoted to the advancement of women.
Ward and Maveety have created the first published volume of Duniway’s work, revealing Duniway’s ability to persuade and inform on topics as varied as treatment of the Chinese, American Indians, the rights and legal status of women, and temperance and Prohibition.
In their introduction, Ward and Maveety tell readers about Duniway’s career as an editor, writer and suffragist, and her tireless fight for reform during a turbulent era when traditional social attitudes and institutions were being challenged.
www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?0952539060.0   (216 words)

  
 Alibris: Abigail Scott Duniway
In 1871, Duniway launched The New Northwest, one of the few newspapers in the nation devoted to woman's advancement.
This first published volume of Duniway's writings from her weekly reform journal offers a vivid portrait of the pioneering suffragist and her work.
Oregon's Abigail Scott Duniway was a Northwest luminary in the fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth century.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Abigail_Scott_Duniway   (265 words)

  
 Oregon Historical Society Store: Product Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This lively and carefully researched biography tells the story of Abigail Scott Duniway, Oregon's most famous champion of woman suffrage.
A pioneer wife suddenly forced to become the family breadwinner, Duniway soon encountered other women, who, like her, were distraught at their secondary political and financial status.
Duniway's own writings and observations are supplemented by a variety of other original sources and historic details.
www.ohsstore.org /products.asp?catid=50&prodid=263   (130 words)

  
 American Cowboys: Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley, Willa Cather, The Alamo, Daniel Boone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Born in Illinois, Duniway traveled to Oregon with her family in 1852.
When the national Women's Suffrage Association convened in Washington D.C. in 1886, Duniway was recognized as the leading women's advocate in the West.
She worked for years to achieve women's property rights and it wasn't until 1912 that Oregon granted women the right to vote.
www.thewildwest.org /cowboys/women/abigail.html   (151 words)

  
 Leaders in the Women's Suffrage Movement: Women's History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Abigail Duniway was a leader of the campaign for women's voting rights in the Pacific Northwest.
Abigail Jane Scott was born in Tazewell County, Illinois.
For several years, Abigail Duniway supported her husband and their six children by operating a women's hat shop in Albany, Ore. During this time, she became increasingly aware of the unequal treatment of men and women by the law.
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 Clara Shortridge Foltz - First Woman
Duniway persuaded Anthony to come to Oregon and join her speaking for suffrage there and in the Washington territory.
Duniway was established in her new vocation as suffrage leader, lecturer and publisher in January 1872, when Clara Foltz arrived in Oregon.
Duniway, not usually long on praise, said of her: "Gentlemen admire her, as they always do bright women who have courage to want to be free, and ladies like her in spite of themselves because of her goodness of heart."
www.stanford.edu /group/WLHP/clara/first.woman.html   (16767 words)

  
 Abigail
Van Buren, Abigail - Van Buren, Abigail (Pauline Esther Friedman) columnist Birthplace: Sioux City, Iowa Born: 7/4/18...
Abigail, the brother who dotes on her and the riddle of another random,brutal attack.
A village unites in prayer for Abigail and her unborn child.
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