My latest work on Zoe Wilbour and the Wilbour Family Papers, which I am processing for the Brooklyn

My latest work on Zoe Wilbour and the Wilbour Family Papers, which I am processing for the Brooklyn Museum Archives, took me to the Little Compton Historical Society in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The Wilbour family played an important role in the small seaside town of Little Compton, which boasts an eponymous cemetery and the Wilbour Woods, a section of forest named after the family.Charles Edwin Wilbour’s mother, Sarah Soule Wilbour, and his wife, Charlotte Beebee Wilbour, were both active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Rhode Island and New York. Sarah Soule Wilbour paid taxes in protest throughout her life, in objection to the taxation of women without attendant voting rights. Sarah was also an active member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Letters from both Stanton and Anthony are contained in the Wilbour Family Papers here at the Brooklyn Museum (one of which is shown above the bone folder).Charlotte Beebee Wilbour served as the president of the New York-based women’s club, Sorosis, as well as chairing the Committee on Correspondence for the Friends of Woman’s Suffrage in the State of New York. She maintained regular correspondence with Susan B. Anthony, including a letter from May 26, 1872, on long-term loan from the Newport Historical Society to the LCHS, in which Anthony describes an open bench warrant for her arrest in Ontario County, New York, where she was conducting a lecture circuit. We are delighted to find similar letters to and from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the Brooklyn Museum Archives.“Posted Kristin IemmaPhoto Brooke Baldeschwiler -- source link

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