Iris Calderhead
Iris Calderhead | |
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Born | |
Died | March 6, 1966 | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College, University of Kansas |
Occupation | Suffragist |
Spouses |
Iris Calderhead (January 3, 1889 – March 6, 1966
Education and academic work
Calderhead attended the University of Kansas from 1906 to 1910, graduating with an A.B. in English. During her time at the university, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a fraternity dedicated to the educational advancement of women.[4] In 1910, she published an article in the journal Modern Language Notes and began graduate studies at Bryn Mawr, having won a fellowship there.[5]
From 1910 to 1911, she was a Graduate Scholar in English, and from 1912 to 1913 was a resident fellow in English.[6] She spent the summer of 1913 at the University of Chicago[7] and returned to Marysville to teach English and science.[6] In 1916, her work on Middle English appeared in Modern Philology, publishing for the first time several fragments of early morality plays.[8]
Activism
Calderhead became involved in the women's suffrage movement after meeting
In 1916 Calderhead, in her role as secretary of the Congressional Union of Kansas, sent a letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary, informing them that on March 15, the fourth Kansas district Republican Convention had adopted a resolution favoring women's suffrage.
In June 1917, Calderhead was arrested at the Smithsonian Institution, where she and fellow organizer Elizabeth Stuyvesant planned to display a banner during a visit by President Woodrow Wilson.[17] On July 14, 1917, Calderhead was arrested again for picketing the White House during the Silent Sentinels demonstrations and served three days in the Occoquan Workhouse.[18]
From January to June 1918, Calderhead conducted a speaking tour through Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States in 1919,[19] but Calderhead's activism did not stop then. In 1932 she spoke before the House Foreign Affairs committee on the rights of women in the League of Nations.[20]
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Iris Calderhead and other suffragists in a march
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The Women's Voter Convention, San Francisco, September 1915 with Alva Belmont (second from right)
Private life
Iris Calderhead was born January 3, 1889, in Marysville, Kansas, to Alice Gallant Calderhead and William Calderhead.
Calderhead married
In 1941, she married her college classmate Wallace Pratt, and the two moved to Pratt's home in McKittrick Canyon in far West Texas.[24] They moved to Arizona in 1960, so that Calderhead could receive treatment for arthritis.[25] Calderhead died March 6, 1966, in Tucson, Arizona.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "MRS. WALLACE PRATT, EARLY SUFFRAGETTE". Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ^ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the United States Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1932. p. 14231.
- ^ Kansas, University of (1914). Bulletin.
- ^ The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Pi Beta Phi Fraternity. 1909.
- ^ The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Pi Beta Phi Fraternity. 1911.
- ^ a b Bryn Mawr College Calendar. Bryn Mawr College. 1914.
- ^ Chicago, University of (1913). Annual Register.
- S2CID 161064286.
- ^ "Marin Journal 9 September 1915 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ "Iris Calderhead | Turning Point Suffragist Memorial". www.suffragistmemorial.org. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
- ^ "The Milwaukee Journal – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ Congress, United States (1916). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "Suffragists Timeline: 1916". groups.ischool.berkeley.edu. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ "Detailed Chronology National Woman's Party History" (PDF). Library of Congress. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ISBN 9780252074714.
- ^ "Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture". www.okhistory.org. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ^ a b Moursund, Fallon. "Biographical Sketch of Iris Calderhead". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913–1920.
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- ^ "19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote". National Archives. January 25, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ Committee, United States Congress House Foreign Affairs (1932). Permanent Court of International Justice: Hearings Before the... Seventy-second Congress, First Session on H.J. Res. 378, May 6, 1932.
- ^ College, Bryn Mawr (1922). Register of Alumnae and Former Students.
- ISBN 9780472099306.
- ^ Calderhead, Iris (1936), Consumer Services of Government Agencies (report), Agricultural Adjustment Administration
- ^ "Ancestry.com". Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ^ "Memorial" (PDF). American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. 66 (9): 1412–1422. September 1982.