VOTES FOR WOMEN
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National Votes for Women Trail
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House, People
- 139 Clinton St, Concord, NH 03301, USA
- 43.186404, -71.558082
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National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
VOTES FOR WOMEN
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VOTES FOR WOMENHOME OF ARMENIA S. AND
NATHANIEL WHITE. SOCIAL
REFORMERS AND FOUNDERS
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE WOMAN
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 1868.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021
In 1868, suffragist and social reformer Armenia S. White (1817-1916), along with her husband Nathaniel White (1811-1880), founded the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association. Nathaniel and Armenia were the first to sign their names to a call inviting “the thinking men and women of New Hampshire” to meet in the city of Concord “to consider and act upon the political and civil rights of Woman, and organize for the efficient advocacy of Woman Suffrage.” At the resulting convention held in Eagle Hall, Armenia was made president of the state suffrage organization, and speeches were given by Henry B. Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Stephen Foster, Rev. J.F. Lovering, and Rev. William T. Savage. Armenia served as president of the association until 1895. In an address given at the 1906 annual convention of the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association, Armenia recounted how she and her husband came to be the founders of the state association:
At a New England convention in Boston in 1868, it was voted to send out a call to the different states to meet in Cleveland, Ohio, to form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which afterward united with the National, now the National American.
In discussing the election of delegates, the question of state associations came up. My husband and myself both there (as we always attended those conventions), and Mr. White at once said, “We will organize New Hampshire.” We soon called a meeting of a few friends at our house, discussed the matter, chose committees, sent out our call over the state, held our convention in Eagle Hall, to which many came from all over the state, chose our delegates, and in a few days they were on their way to Cleveland.
In 1846, Armenia and Nathaniel established their farm in the southwest section of Concord, New Hampshire. The historic farm is now owned by the state and is an agricultural surplus store. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
