On this day in ....... 1852, one Ellen Clark married, and taking her groom's surname, became Ellen Clark Sargent (left), the name by which she would become a leading suffragist. She allied with IntLawGrrls foremother Susan B. Anthony and others. Ellen's wedding day is among the few precise dates in her life to be found online; many accounts subsume mention of her in stories principally about her husband, U.S. Senator Aaron Augustus Sargent (R-Calif.), who introduced into Congress the text of what would become 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women's suffrage. Yet when she died in 1911 Ellen -- a president of the California Woman Suffrage Association -- was prominent enough that a memorial service was held in her honor in downtown San Francisco's Union Square.
(Prior March 15 posts are here, here, and here)
