Caroline Hallowell Miller (August 20, 1831 – September 2, 1905) was an American educator and suffragist. She organized the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association in 1889, and was its first president.
Caroline Hallowell Miller | |
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 Caroline Hallowell Miller, from a scrapbook in the Library of Congress | |
| Born | August 20, 1831 |
| Died | September 2, 1905 (aged 74) Sandy Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
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| Parent | Benjamin Hallowell |
| Relatives | William Henry Farquhar (uncle); Arthur Briggs Farquhar (cousin); Issac Hallowell Clothier (cousin) |
Early life
editCaroline Hallowell was born in Alexandria, then part of the District of Columbia, the daughter of Benjamin Hallowell and Margaret Farquhar Hallowell.[1][2] Her parents were Quaker educators active in the abolition movement; her father was the president of Maryland Agricultural College, and her mother ran a school for girls in the family's Alexandria home.[3] Her uncle was educator William Henry Farquhar, and businessman Arthur Briggs Farquhar was one of her first cousins.
Career
editMiller founded the Stanmore School for Girls in Sandy Spring, Maryland in 1867.[4] She was active in the suffrage movement and spoke at national suffrage meetings. In 1883, she was introduced by Susan B. Anthony at the National Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington. In 1889, she organized the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association, and was its first president.[3][5] In 1890 she was succeeded as president by Mary Bentley Thomas. A historical marker naming both women was erected in 2021 in Sandy Spring.[6][7][8]
Personal life
editCaroline Hallowell married attorney and fellow educator Francis Miller in 1852. They had seven children together; three of their children died in infancy.[9] She was widowed when Francis Miller died in 1888; she died on September 2, 1905.[3] Her cousin, Issac Hallowell Clothier (1837-1921), father to Hannah Hallowell Clothier Hull and William Clothier (tennis), was a cofounder of Strawbridge's and owner of "Ballytore", a mansion designed by Addison Hutton in 1885. "Her strongest characteristic was a love of justice," recalled one death notice, "and this was what made her a champion for women's enfranchisement, and for all who were oppressed in any way".[2]
References
edit- ^ Catalog Record: Autobiography of Benjamin Hallowell. Friends' Book Association. 1884. Retrieved 2022-05-19 – via HathiTrust Digital Library.
- ^ a b "Caroline H. Miller" Friends' Intelligencer (October 21, 1905): 667.
- ^ a b c Mello-Klein, Cody (2021-07-29). "Alexandria Celebrates Women: Caroline Hallowell Miller". Alexandria Times. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Scharf, John Thomas (1968). History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Including Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 784. ISBN 978-0-8063-4565-9.
- ^ Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan Brownell; Gage, Matilda Joslyn; Harper, Ida Husted (1902). History of Woman Suffrage: 1883-1900. Fowler & Wells. pp. 696–697.
- ^ "Outdoors - Woman's Suffrage Marker Dedication". Sandy Spring Museum. September 12, 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Sandy Spring Museum dedicated marker honoring Mary Bentley Thomas and Carolyn Hallowell Miller" (November 1, 2021), National Collaborative for Women's History Sites.
- ^ "Votes for Women". William G. Pomeroy Foundation. 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Hough, Mary Paul Hallowell (1924). The Hallowell-Paul Family History: Including the Ancestry of the Related Families of Worth, Lukens, Jarrett, Morris, Scull, Stokes, Heath, and Others. Henry Ferris, Publisher. p. 20.