Frances Squire Potter
Frances Squire Potter | |
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| Born | November 12, 1867 |
| Died | March 25, 1914 (aged 46) |
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Frances Boardman Squire Potter (November 12, 1867 – March 25, 1914) was an American academic and activist.
Frances Boardman Squire was born on November 12, 1867, in Elmira, New York, to Grace (Smith) and Truman H. Squire.[1][2] She married Winfield S. Potter in 1891.[3]
Potter attended Elmira College as an undergraduate from 1883 to 1887, graduating with an AB, and received a master's degree in 1889.[1][4] She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, shortly after graduating. Initially she taught high school and then became a professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where she was a full professor from 1907 to 1909.[1][4] She did research on the papers of John Milton at the University of Cambridge while on a leave of absence from her professorship around 1907.[5]
Potter left her professorship to become the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), after being elected at NAWSA's national convention in 1909.[3] Around that time, she also chaired the literary committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and edited Life and Labor, its magazine.[3]
She died on March 25, 1914, in Chicago.[6]
Publications
- Germelshausen (play, 1904, with Mary Gray Peck and Carl Schlenker)[3][7]
- The Ballingtons (novel; Little, Brown and Company, 1905)[3][8]
- The Common School Spelling Book[7]
References
- ^ a b c Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 772. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Denk, Marika. "Biographical Sketch of Frances Boardman Squire Potter". Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Frances Squire Potter '87, Symbol of Woman's High Estate". Star-Gazette. May 8, 1955. p. 16 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Peck, Mary Gray (May 1914). "Frances Squire Potter". Life and Labor. Vol. 4, no. 5. pp. 131–133.
- ^ "Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, Brilliant Elocutionist, Praises Oakland Women". Oakland Tribune. May 19, 1909. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. Frances Squire Passes Away". The Muscatine Journal. Associated Press. March 27, 1914. p. 5.
- ^ a b "Papers of Frances Squire Potter, 1879-1923". Schlesinger Library. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
- ^ "Weekly Record of New Publications". Publishers Weekly. 68 (1758): 914. October 7, 1905.