Mary Ann Sorden Stuart | |
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Born | Mary Ann Sorden February 12, 1828
Greenwood, Delaware, U.S. |
Died | April 19, 1893
Greenwood, Delaware, U.S. | (aged 65)
Resting place | St. Johnstown Methodist Church, Greenwood |
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Mary Ann Sorden Stuart (February 12, 1828 – April 19, 1893) was an American suffragist who served as a representative of the women's suffrage movement from Delaware and attended the National Woman Suffrage Association conventions in Washington, DC. [1]
Mary Ann Sorden Stuart was born on February 12, 1828, to John Sorden and Sarah Owens Pennewill Sorden in Sussex County, Delaware. [2]
Stuart organized the first women's suffrage group in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1869. [3] Stuart spoke in favor of women's suffrage in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in 1878. [4] She also became the Delaware representative to the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). [4] Stuart also testified to the Delaware General Assembly in 1881 on allowing women's suffrage in the state constitution. [4]