
Olympia Brown
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 99 years ago |
Date of birth | January 5,1835 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Prairie Ronde Township |
Michigan | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 23,1926 |
Died | Baltimore |
Maryland | |
United States | |
Spouse(s) | John Henry Willis |
Children | Henry Parker Willis |
Job | Minister of religion |
Education | St. Lawrence University |
Antioch College | |
Mount Holyoke College | |
Theological School of St. Lawrence University | |
Books | Suffrage and Religious Principle: Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown |
Acquaintances, old and new, among reformers | |
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ID | 1283133 |
Olympia Brown Life story
Olympia Brown was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an articulate advocate for women's rights and one of the few first generation suffragists who were able to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.