Frances Ellen Burr

Frances Ellen Burr (June 4, 1831 - February 9, 1923) was an American suffragist and writer from Connecticut.

Biography

Burr was born on June 4, 1831, in Hartford, Connecticut, and was the youngest of fourteen children.^[1]^[2] Her brother went on to publish the progressive newspaper, the Hartford Times.^[3]

Burr attended the 4th National Women's Rights Convention held in Cleveland in 1853.^[1] After getting enough petitions, she introduced a suffrage bill in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1867 that was defeated by a fairly narrow vote, giving her hope for women's suffrage in the state.^[3]^[4] In 1869, she was one of several suffragists to call for the first suffrage convention held in Connecticut.^[4] At the convention, she and Isabella Beecher Hooker founded the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA).^[1] Over the next 41 years, Burr would serve as the recording secretary of CWSA.^[1]

Later, she and Emily Parmely Collins started the Hartford Equal Rights League in 1885.^[5]

Burr was a contributor to The Woman's Bible, and one of eight women who wrote "special commentaries" for the book.^[6]^[7]

Burr died in her Hartford, Connecticut home on February 9, 1923.^[8] Her body was placed in a vault in Spring Grove Cemetery.^[9] In 2020, she was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Frances Ellen Burr". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
^ "Frances Ellen Burr Dies Pioneer Suffragist of Conn". Record-Journal. 1923-02-10. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Campbell, Susan (2013). Tempest-tossed : the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker. Internet Archive. Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, Connecticut. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8195-7340-7.
^ ^a ^b Nichols 1983, p. 6.
^ Anthony 1902, p. 536.
^ Kern, Kathi (2001). Mrs. Stanton's Bible. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-8014-3191-3. OCLC 46795705.
^ Nichols 1983, p. 56.
^ Muskic, Meliha; Jackie, Katelyn. "Biographical Sketch of Frances Ellen Burr". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
^ "Funeral of Miss Frances E. Burr Tomorrow". Hartford Courant. 1923-02-11. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.

Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
Nichols, Carole (1983). Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc. ISBN 0866561927 – via Internet Archive.

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