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	AllRefer.com - Mary Elizabeth Lease (Agriculture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Mary Elizabeth Lease 1853–1933, American agrarian reformer and temperance advocate, b.
		She had gone to Kansas as a young woman, was admitted to the bar, and became active in Populist politics in the campaign of 1890.
		Known during this period as Mary Ellen Lease, she was dubbed Mary Yellin Lease by her opponents because of her flamboyant oratorical style.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lease-Ma.html (196 words)

	1896: Booker T. Washington
		Mary Elizabeth Lease (1850-1933) was born Mary Clyens in western Pennsylvania, the daughter of Irish parents who emigrated from County Monaghan during the Famine.
		Lease somewhat unsexed herself by her indulgence in turbulent and inflammatory discourse at Cooper Union that all women are unfitted by Nature to participate in the excitement of political contests or to have a voice in the calm and deliberate discussions which ought always to attend upon the settlement of grave and serious governmental problems.
		Lease upon the political platform or stump, uttering invectives more than masculine, and appealing to the brutal passions of the mob rather than to the calm sense of reasoning men and women, must be treated the same as any other mob leader, male or female.
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/lease.html (1330 words)

	Mary Elizabeth Clyens Lease Biography / Biography of Mary Elizabeth Clyens Lease Biography
		Mary Elizabeth Clyens Lease (1853-1933), American lecturer, writer, and politician, gained national fame during the Populist crusade for reform in the 1890s.
		Mary Elizabeth Clyens was born in Pennsylvania of Irish parents.
		Lease was active in the presidential campaign of 1892, accompanying Populist candidate James Baird Weaver on a disastrous tour of the South.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-mary-elizabeth-clyens-lease (474 words)

	1896: Mary E. Lease's Speech at Cooper Union
		Lease, shaking her shoulders fiercely, "for an American to pay $10,000,000 for the cast-off, disreputable rags of old world royalty, for the scion of a house that boasts the blood of a Jeffreys and a Marlborough.
		Lease then took a shy at the "crime of '73." She told how the Government had made contracts on a bimetallic basis and then had changed it to a single standard.
		Lease was beginning on the debt again, when a woman in the third row cried out, "Let's wipe out the bonded debt." Just as appropriately she might have called: "Cut it bias," or "will it wash?" Mrs.
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/leasespeech.html (1789 words)

	wais:topics:biography: mary elizabeth lease
		Beginning in the late 1880s until her retirement from public life in 1918, Mary Lease took up a series of activist causes that included agrarian reform, woman suffrage, Free Silver, prohibition, the popular election of senators, government supervision of corporations, and the nationalization of railroads.
		When she first began speaking out she was mistakenly known as Mary Ellen, and her oratory was so flamboyant that her enemies called her "Mary Yellin Lease." At that time she was also advising Kansas farmers "to raise less corn and more hell," and that phrase has been associated with her name ever since.
		Lease was born Mary Clyens in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an Irish political refugee who was killed in the American Civil War.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Biographies/biography_marylease091804.htm (553 words)

	Missouri Humanities Council's E-News November 2004
		Although not Native American, Mary Elizabeth Lease was of the same ilk.
		Lease was born in 1850 to Irish immigrant parents who came to America during the Irish famine because America was the land of the bountiful.
		After marrying, Lease and her husband over a ten year period tried to make a living farming, but experienced first hand as numerous other farming families did that bountiful harvests are not synonymous with bountiful profits.
	www.mohumanities.org /E-News/Nov04/lease_essay.htm (487 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LEASE, MARY ELIZABETH CLYENS
		Mary Elizabeth Lease, lecturer, writer, and political agitator, daughter of Joseph P. and Mary Elizabeth (Murray) Clyens, was born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1853.
		In 1885 Mary was admitted to the Kansas bar and began her activist career in earnest, a move that resulted in her divorce from Charles in 1902.
		Mary Lease died in Callicoon, New York, on October 29, 1933.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fle97.html (709 words)

	Mary Elizabeth Lease -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American lecturer, writer, and political activist.
		She was born to Joseph P. and Mary Elizabeth (Murray) Clyens, in (additional info and facts about Ridgway, Pennsylvania) Ridgway, Pennsylvania.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease was also known as Mary Ellen Lease.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mary_elizabeth_lease.htm (97 words)

	Mary Lease
		Mary Clyens, the daughter of Irish immigrants, was born in 1850.
		Mary Lease became involved in politics and was an active supporter of prohibition and women's suffrage.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease, the free silver mass-meeting at Cooper Union last night nursed itself into all the semblance of a Socialistic gathering.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAleaseM.htm (1853 words)

	WIC - Women's History in America
		Whole eras were influenced by women rulers for instance, Queen Elizabeth of England in the 16th century, Catherine the Great of Russia in the 18th century, and Queen Victoria of England in the 19th century.
		In 1990 Mary Robinson was elected president of Ireland and Violeta Chamorro, of Nicaragua.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease, a leading Populist spokeswoman in the 1880s and 1890s in Kansas, immortalized the cry, "What the farmers need to do is raise less corn and more hell." Margaret Robins led the National Women's Trade Union League in the early 1900s.
	www.wic.org /misc/history.htm (4166 words)

	A Woman's Work: Mary Lease Celebrates Women Populists
		Women are not often thought of in association with the Populists, but the best-known orator of the movement in the early 1890s was a woman, Mary Elizabeth Lease.
		Lease entered political life as a speaker for the Irish National League, and later emerged as a leader of both the Knights of Labor and the Populists.
		Lease mesmerized audiences in Kansas, Missouri, the Far West, and the South with her powerful voice and charismatic speaking style.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5303 (1600 words)

	Mary Elizabeth Lease
		Populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease, who supposedly advised Kansas farmers to "raise less corn and more hell," was born of Irish immigrant parents in Pennsylvania in 1850.
		After unsuccessful farming ventures in Kingman County and in Texas, the Leases and their four children moved to Wichita, where Mary Elizabeth took a leading role in civic and social activities.
		By 1890, her involvement in the growing revolt of Kansas farmers against high mortgage interest and railroad rates had placed her in the forefront of the People's (Populist) Party, and she stomped all over Kansas as well as the Far West and the South for the cause.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/lease_mary.htm (224 words)

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	Mary Elizabeth Lease
		Lease, Mary Elizabeth Clyens (biography) (Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women)
		Lease, Mary Elizabeth Clyens (portrait) (Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women)
		Family frets, town sweats ; Cape Elizabeth is holding 'its collective breath' as the Sprague family debates preservation of its vast holdings - 2,073 acres of prime real estate.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0829168.html (264 words)

	Le Moyne College Academics
		Mary Elizabeth Lease, political orator and labor reformer, born 1850.
		Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American community leader, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women, born 1863.
		Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell born 1810: English novelist concerned with social and economic themes, biographer of Charlotte Bronte.
	www.lemoyne.edu /women_studies/this.htm (1260 words)

	MHC - Chautauqua Tour Information
		Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933), American lecturer, writer, and later political activist who championed diverse public cases including the plight of the farmer, would take issue with the phrase "America, the Bountiful".
		She and her husband spent ten years trying to make a living farming, but lost everything in the financial panic of 1873, which was anything but a "bountiful" time or experience.
		While simultaneously being accused of being a "virago" and "petticoated smut-mill," Mary Lease was known to be able to influence hundreds of votes wherever she spoke, and the opposition did not want her in their area near or during election time.
	www.mohumanities.org /programs/chautauqua/tourinfo.htm (1697 words)

	Famous Kansans, Women
		When Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton, Wellsville, began creating art at the age of sixty-eight, she unwittingly embarked on a steady ascent to national recognition, the culmination of which was a one-woman show at the Smithsonian Institution.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease settled in Wichita with her husband, Charles, in 1877.
		Bored with her domestic life, she studied law, was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1885, and became an active and well-known speaker in the Populist political movement.
	www.kshs.org /people/women.htm (1674 words)

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		Clara Schweiger killed her husband and Mary Tiera Farrow defended her, one of the first times that a female attorney defended another woman on murder charges in the United States.
		Photo and bio of Mary Tiera Farrow, or Mary Farrow (1880-1971), "the dean of women lawyers in Kansas City" and author of the book "Lawyer in Petticoats." Description of her life and career as a native of Indiana coming to Kansas City about 1898 as a....
		Tiera Farrow was the first woman lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri; the first woman divorce proctor in Kansas City, Missouri, circuit court; the first woman judge of any court in Kansas City; twice the city treasurer of Kansas City; and author of her....
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/list.cfm?list=sub&SubjectareaID=71795 (231 words)

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		In Strasburg the Princess Hohenlohe and her daughter Elizabeth have taken a practical course in military hospital nursing, assisting at operations, amputations, cleansing aud bandaging wounds.
		Elizabeth Sheldon Tillinghast, the daughter of Judge Sheldon, of New Haven, Conn., proved herself an eloquent speaker in behalf of free silver.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease, of Kansas, has proved one of the most eloquent speakers, and has perhaps come to be quite as well known throughout the country
	www.webroots.org /library/usawomen/ofwps005.html (13610 words)

	IALHI News Service: Eva Valesh and Labour Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elizabeth Faue has resurrected one of the Progressive Era's more important historical figures, to tell a story of gender and class politics.
		During her public career, Eva McDonald Valesh (1866-1956) was a working girl, a Populist lecturer, an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, and a journalist for William Randolph Hearst.
		Mary Eva McDonald was the daughter of a Minneapolis carpenter.
	www.ialhi.org /news/i0310_17.html (1468 words)

	Leaders in the Women's Suffrage Movement: Women's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blatch was born in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Her father, Henry B. Stanton, was a prominent abolitionist, and her mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was one of the earliest leaders of the women's rights movement.
		Lease seconded the nomination of James B. Weaver for president at the party's nominating convention in 1892, and Weaver became the Populist presidential candidate that year.
		Lease left the Populist Party in 1896 because it supported William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate for president.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/whm/html/whm013.html (3757 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American populist reformer Mary Elizabeth Lease (1850-1933), whose powerful and colorful oratory made her a prominent political figure during the Progressive era of U. history.
		In 1895 Lease committed her ideas to writing in her book, "The Problem of Civilization Solved," in which she proposed ending militarism, poverty, and business monopoly by an intricate mix of free trade, nationalization of major utilities and other reforms.
		By 1896, however, populist political prospects had so dimmed that Lease gladly accepted Joseph Pulitzer's offer to write political copy for the New York World.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=832 (522 words)

	Oregon Blue Book History/Troubled Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alliance members and Grangers lobbied for collection and publication of agricultural statistics, strengthening of education at Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis, development of experimental farms to test crops, breeds of livestock, and the impact of fertilizer and chemical sprays.
		Abigail Scott Duniway, continuing her unrelenting campaign for women's suffrage, in 1892 introduced Mary Elizabeth Lease, the "Kansas Pythoness" and populist stump speaker, to an eager audience in Portland.
		Duniway's 1894 speech to an estimated 2,800 strikers inspired some to call her the "Patrick Henry of the Northwest" and led her brother, editor of The Oregonian, to refuse to print the text of her address.
	www.sos.state.or.us /bbook/cultural/history/history22.htm (1358 words)

	The Herald Democrat
		Sarah Acheson, wife of Denison's leading physician Dr. Alex Acheson, was president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union that had been operating since 1881 and had 50 members, no doubt wives of the city fathers.
		Lillie Hathaway, Jennie Dixon and Lucy A. Knowles were other officers and let's not forget Mary Elizabeth Lease who spoke at a meeting when the organization was newly formed.
		Mary Elizabeth went on to gain national fame as the Populist Party's "Joan of Arc." Mary Elizabeth can be the topic for another column.
	www.herald-democrat.com /articles/2005/03/27/local_news/iq_1786313.txt (1045 words)

	Chanute Tribune Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All three join Dwight Eisenhower, the World War II general who later became president, Dole, the former senator and presidential candidate, and Earhart, the pioneer pilot who disappeared in 1937, on The Eagle's list of the 10 most influential Kansans.
		She was arrested 30 times, and paid her fines from money earned on speaking tours.
		Like Lease, she was called many names, from "zealot" to "crazy."
	www.chanute.com /chnsub/99Jun/403186.HTM (881 words)

	Women Lawyers Index -- Lease, Mary Elizabeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Knights Of Labor Glimpse Of Mary Elizabeth Lease
		Mary Elizabeth Lease: The Foremost Woman Politician of the Times.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease - Questions for Further Research
	www.law.stanford.edu /library/wlhbp/profiles/LeaseMary.html (48 words)

	The Populists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mary Elizabeth ("Ellen") Lease was an example, but there were many others who travelled the Plains even after the Party was swallowed by the Democratic Party.
		It depicted the farmers as oppressed by the wealthy class of bankers, railroad magnates, and the other wealthy class.
		She was called Mary Ellen by her family and was known and "Mary Yellin'" on the stump.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~jklumpp/comm460/pop.html (1354 words)

	Women Reformers and Suffragists
		Lease, Mary Elizabeth, American agrarian reformer and temperance advocate
		Shriver, Eunice Mary Kennedy, philanthropist, mental health activist
		Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, American reformer, a leader of the woman suffrage movement
	www.factmonster.com /spot/whmbios3.html (384 words)

	WStimeline4
		Under the Emancipation Oak in Hampton, Virginia, Mary Perake taught emancipated slaves.
		Mary Elizabeth Lease, a self-educated attorney, led the organization of the Grange, a farmers' cooperative.
		Reindeer Mary, the first female Inuit businesswoman, opened a successful meat market near Point Barrow, Alaska.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/ws101/wstml/wstml4.htm (2603 words)

	In Defense of Home and Hearth: Mary Lease Raises Hell Among the Farmers
		In Defense of Home and Hearth: Mary Lease Raises Hell Among the Farmers
		In hundreds of speeches, she apparently never said the one phrase most often associated with her name—the injunction that farmers should “raise less corn and more hell.” Regardless of who called explicitly for more hell-raising, Lease was a powerful voice of the agrarian crusade.
		See Also:A Woman's Work: Mary Lease Celebrates Women Populists
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5304 (427 words)

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