Marietta Bones
American woman suffragist and philanthropist (1842–1901)
Biography
Marietta Matilda Bones (née Wilkins; May 4, 1842 – July 11, 1901) was an American woman suffragist, social reformer, and philanthropist. In 1881, she was elected vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and was re-elected annually for nine years. In 1890, suffragist Susan B. Anthony and supporters of the movement merged the National Women Suffrage Association into the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In 1882, Bones made her first appearance as a public speaker in Webster, soon to be Webster, South Dakota, where she later resided. She was an active temperance worker, and was secretary of the first Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1889. She took great interest in all reform and charitable institutions.
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