Feb 27, 2023 | Profiles
Eliza Shaut White, photograph, courtesy of Stacey White Ferren Mrs. White … is one of the leading spirits of the Johnson City branch of the Congressional Union and a woman of force and charm. The Johnson City Comet, February 24, 1916 Often overlooked in the history of...
Feb 27, 2023 | Profiles
Mary Wilson McTeer, carte de visite, courtesy of Maryville College “An Equal Suffrage Club was organized at Maryville, in East Tennessee. The husband of its President [McTeer] wore the blue through the long struggle of “the hot Sixties,” while the husband of the...
Feb 27, 2023 | Profiles
Elizabeth Crozier “Lizzie” French, photograph, courtesy of Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Public Library “I wish I could say ‘Fellow Citizens,’ but since I am not accepted as a citizen by the government, I must say ‘Citizens and Fellow...
Aug 29, 2022 | Profiles
Cora E. Burke, photograph by Cloud Photo, The Nashville Globe, October 12, 1917 “Mrs. Cora E. Burke … has contributed more to Knoxville’s fraternal, spiritual, educational, civic, and social life than the average local woman…. [She] is very popular with all...
