Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Chapman Catt, Carrie |
Occupation |
women's suffrage leader, world peace advocate, founder of the League of Women Voters in 1920. Active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; writer, speaker. |
Notes |
See Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (2008) for more |
Born |
1859 |
Birthplace |
Ripon, Wisconsin |
Deceased |
1947 |
Deceased where |
New Rochelle, New York |
Mother |
Maria Clinton |
Father |
Lucius Lane |
Spouse |
Leo Chapman, 1890 m. George Catt d. 1905. |
Education |
High School 1877 Charles City, Iowa; then Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, graduated 1880 the only woman in her class. |
Places of residence |
1866 to Charles City, Iowa. 1883 appointed superintendent of schools there. California, then back to Charles City in 1887. |
Relationships |
first husband Leo Chapman, Mason City Republican newspaper editor. died suddenly of typhoid fever in California. |
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