Abigail Scott Duniway

Abigail Scott Duniway started out her professional life as a schoolteacher and then as a woman’s hatmaker. While working and interacting with women, she became aware of and concerned about the challenges that women faced. In 1871 she started and became the editor of the newspaper, The New Northwest. She invited prominent champions for women’s rights, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to come to Oregon to give speeches in favor of women’s suffrage. When Anthony accepted her offer and held lectures throughout the Pacific Northwest, Duniway accompanied her, recorded their experiences, and sent these reports to be published in several newspapers, including her own.

Spurred on by the excitement of these engagements and becoming increasingly impassioned about the need for women to be able to vote, Abigail Scott Duniway became...