[Broadside Offprint]: Susan Look Avery. From The Public, Chicago, February 12, 1915

First edition. Broadside offprint. Measuring 5¾" x 11½". A few faint creases and short tears, else a near fine copy. An offprint of the obituary of suffragist and abolitionist Susan Avery. Born in Massachusetts, she moved with her husband to Kentucky in 1843, where she hosted Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell of the American Woman Suffrage Association when they were in Louisville for the national convention in 1881, the first to be held in the South. She hosted many reformers at her summer residence in Wyoming, New York including Susan B. Anthony, Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Booker T. Washington. She also wrote extensively on progressive social movements. This obituary was written by Louis F. Post, who served as the Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor during the final year of the Wilson administration. Unrecorded by *OCLC*.