Correll Erasmus Lucy (1 results)

Quarto, 12.5 x 9.25", stitched periodical, pp. 81-96. Volume 1, No. 6, September, 1881. A single issue of the first suffrage newspaper published in the state of Nebraska. The paper was founded by Erasmus and Lucy Correll, a pair of "suffragist homesteaders" who claimed land under the Homestead Act of 1862 and were active in the suffrage movement. Erasmus went on to become president of the American Woman's Suffrage Association, and a member of the Nebraska legislature, where he submitted an unsuccessful suffrage bill. Lucy, meanwhile, was a journalist who wrote for her husband's paper, The Hebron Journal; she also helped to organize the first woman's suffrage association in Nebraska. The paper served as the unofficial newspaper of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, and prints Nebraska's state motto ("Equality Before the Law") in the masthead, above the phrase "Devoted to Woman and her Home, Industrial, Educational, and Legal Interests - especially advocating Woman Suffrage." This issue includes articles in favor of suffrage, a front page article critiquing the arrest of three New England girls for smoking cigars, letters to the editor, updates on successful Nebraska women, reports of local suffrage groups in the state, and more. Scarce, with OCLC locating issues at only three institutions: SUNY Geneseo, Omaha Public Library, and Nebraska State Historical Society. Creasing to pages, damp staining to corners and edges, mainly on first and last page, several tears to margins up to one inch.