Personal life
editAbby Crawford Milton was born in Milledgeville, Georgia to newspaper publisher Charles Peter Crawford and Anna Ripley Orme.[1]
In 1904, Abby, married George Fort Milton Sr., an editor of the Pro-Suffrage Chattanooga News, this was George's second marriage.[2][1] While George was busy with the newspaper, Abby went to school. She attended Chattanooga College of law where she received her law degree but never practiced it.[2] Together, George and Abby had three daughters; Corine, Sarah Ann, and Frances. When George's first wife, Caroline Mounger McCall died in 1897, she left a son behind, George Fort Milton Jr. He became Abby's stepson when she married George.[1] When George F. Milton Sr. died in 1924, Abby and stepson George took over the Chattanooga News until it was sold in the 1930s.[3]
Later, Abby Crawford Milton moved to Clearwater, Florida where she began to write[2]. She published "A Report of the Tennessee League of Women Voters," "The Magic Switch," poetry for children; "Caesar's Wife and Other Poems"; "Lookout Mountain"; "Flower Lore"; and "Grandma Says".[3]
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Career
editMargaret, her two sisters, Anna and Mary Bateson, and their mother Anna Aitkin were involved with the Women's suffrage movement.[4] Margaret was interested in journalism which she began pursuing in 1886. She then began working for 'queen' magazine where she stayed for the majority of her career.[5] In 1888, she organized a campaign of meetings for the Women's Suffrage Society and on 1895 she published 'Professional Women upon their Professions'. In 1913 she became the president of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association, a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Executive committee and vice president of the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women.[6] In 1912, as a member of the National Union of women's suffrage Societies, she wrote a letter to Maud Arncliffe Sennett stating that both men and women should have the opportunity to live in better conditions than they did.[5] In 1920, she was a member of the standing committee of the Cambridge Branch of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship still in hopes of political equality.[6][5]
- ^ a b c "Gaston: Abby Crawford Milton, advocate for women". timesfreepress.com. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ a b c "Abby Crawford Milton (1881 - 1991) - Find A Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ a b "Milton, Abby Crawford". myweb.wvnet.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ "Papers of Margaret Heitland - Archives Hub". Retrieved 2017-03-10.
- ^ a b c the women's suffrage movement: a reference guide 1866-1928. p. 282. ISBN 1-84142-031-X.
- ^ a b Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-10.