Influential Women of Spokane: Building a Fair City

by Nancy Driscol Engle

Overview

While known as the home of Father's Day, Spokane benefited from its share of trailblazing women. In 1886, Mother Joseph, a pioneering architect, constructed the first Sacred Heart Hospital. After fire destroyed thirty-six blocks in 1889, Anna Stratton Browne and her friends raised $10,000 to build a home for needy children that operated for six decades. And in early 1908, May Hutton became president of the Spokane Equal Suffrage League, persevering until 1910, when Washington voters gave women the vote. Historian Nancy Driscol Engle commemorates the unforgettable contributions of Spokane's women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467119863
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/25/2017
Series:	American Heritage
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	664,411
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nancy Driscol Engle lives and writes from her adopted hometown of Spokane, Washington. She was one of the scholars interviewed for Courage in Corsets, a video produced by KSPS television, studying the movement that culminated in giving women the right to vote in Washington in 1910. She won a grant that collaborated with Eastern Washington University, the Museum of Arts and Culture and the Spokane chapter of League of Women Voters to produce a study of the local campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment, for the Washington Women's History Consortium. The results of the study are available online at washingtonhistory.org. She also worked on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant with TINCAN, Spokane. She published "We Don't Intend to take Advice from Women," for Columbia Magazine, a study of the police matron controversy in Spokane.

Table of Contents

Foreword Linda Lawrence Hunt 7

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction 13

Part 1 Building a Fair City

1 From Town to City 19

2 Three Rs Plus Music 28

3 Fire! 32

4 Creating a Charity 36

5 Hospital or Home? 42

6 Who Helps the Poor? 45

7 Who Gets the Children? 48

8 Growing Pains 53

9 Defending the Home 56

10 A Day at the Home 61

11 Charitable Limits 66

Part 2 Seeking Women's Rights

12 Roots of Women's Rights 73

13 The WCTU and Equal Rights 78

14 Strong Women 84

15 Are the Women Asleep? 88

16 Seeking Suffragists 91

17 "Mean" Tricks 94

18 Moving On 98

19 Twentieth-Century Reform 100

20 A Suffrage Leader in the Making 103

21 Votes for Women 108

22 Spokane's "Still Hunt" 111

23 The Olympia Campaign 115

24 Busiest Jay in Spokane 119

25 Smoke, Cinders and Suffrage 123

26 Campaign Experiments 126

27 Seattle Is Here with No Bills 130

28 Club Women and Aggressive Action 133

29 A Stain on the Good Name of Spokane 137

30 Standing Pat 141

31 The Fight for Police Matron Is History 146

32 Voting at Last! 150

Notes 155

Bibliography 161

Index 169

About the Author 173