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Women’s History Tour

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Lindsey James

WOMEN’S HISTORY TOUR Throughout much of history, women have made significant contributions to their communities. While Mason City is well known for our “Music Man” heritage and architectural masterpieces of men such as Wright and Griffin, there are numerous women of influence behind these and other local success stories. To celebrate these women and their

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Eleanor Chafin Stockman: An Iowa Champion for Women’s Suffrage

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Lindsey James

August of 2020 marks the centennial of the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment officially giving women the right to vote. The 2020 centennial slogan is Hard Won, Not Done. Iowa women were passionately involved in the fight for equality since the mid-1850s. The Iowa Woman Suffrage Association was organized in 1870 in Mount Pleasant. By

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Part 5: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Lindsey James

The final years of the women’s suffrage movement were not easy ones. World War I was raging in Europe, a flu epidemic ravaged the nation, and the men serving in the armed forces, the industrial revolution had completely changed the way the country worked, and immigrants were flocking to the country to find employment. Still,

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Part 4: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Lindsey James

1916 was a major year in Iowa’s suffrage movement efforts, attracting as much negative reaction as at any time. Leader’s like Alice Paul had grown tired of working so hard for so long and achieving almost nothing. They were beginning to call for more militant action, similar to tactics used in England. Opponents raged about

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Part 3: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Lindsey James

The story of Eleanor Stockman and the pigs has been told many times, but it so unique and speaks so strongly of her determination to earn the right to vote, it deserves to be told again. The wife of Dr. George Stockman, who fully supported her suffrage work, she had come to Mason City in

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Part 2: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Lindsey James

In 1903, a county suffrage convention was held in Mason City. Eleanor Stockman, wife of a local physician and one of the town’s most active suffragettes spoke to the large crowd. In part, she said, “The question of rights is a profound one and is not easily defined. The popular insistence has evolved the democratic

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Part 1: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Lindsey James

The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy. On August 18, 1920, with the final state ratification coming from Tennessee, the 19th amendment went into

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The Jefferson Highway – North Iowa Tour

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Lindsey James

The Jefferson Highway – North Iowa Tour Take a trip along a historic highway – discover architectural treasures, eateries, breweries, festivals & more! The Jefferson Highway Association was organized in 1915. In 1916, this historic north-south U.S. border-to-border route was envisioned for car and freight travel as the auto age developed. In its earliest days

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Eleanor Chafin Stockman: An Iowa Champion for Women’s Suffrage

Part 5: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Part 4: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Part 3: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Part 2: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

Part 1: Mason City Women and the 19th Amendment

The Jefferson Highway – North Iowa Tour