Sarah Platt-Decker
Sarah Platt-Decker | |
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Born | Sarah Sophia Chase 1856 |
Died | July 7, 1912 | (aged 56)
Occupation | Suffragist |
Organizations | Federation of Associated Women's Clubs |
Awards | Colorado Women's Hall of Fame |
Sarah Sophia Chase Platt-Decker (1856 – July 7, 1912)
Career
Platt-Decker was born Sarah Sophia Chase in
In 1884, Platt-Decker moved to
She married
Platt-Decker married a third time in 1899[2], to Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker (1839-1903), a Denver judge who died in 1903. Before his death, she helped to found the Denver Women's Club, served as its first president, and established the Denver Home for Dependent Children. In 1904, she was elected the national president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. In her four years as president, she gave hundreds of speeches persuading members to take up the cause of women's suffrage.[1]
Death and legacy
Platt-Decker died in San Francisco in 1912 after a bout of kidney disease while attending the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention.[1] An obituary in a Denver newspaper described her as "Colorado's foremost woman citizen and the real leader of the suffrage movement in the United States".[1] Another wrote that she deserved "a great share of the credit that Colorado became the first state in the Union to realize the political rights of women".[1] Platt-Decker was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1990.[3] The Decker Branch Library of Denver Public Libraries is named after her.
References
- ^ ISBN 9781555662141.
- ^ https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/900096203:61366
- ^ "Sarah Platt-Decker". Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 23, 2016.