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Miriam Howard Dubose | |
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| Born | November 28, 1862 Russell County, Alabama, United States |
| Died | 1945 (aged 82–83) |
| Employer | First Presbyterian Church of Columbus |
| Organization(s) | Georgia Woman Suffrage Association National Council of Women of the United States |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Helen Augusta Howard (sister) |
Daisy Miriam Howard Dubose (1862–1945) was an American organist and suffragist. She was one of the founding members of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).
Early life
[edit]Dubose was born to Augustus Howard and Ann Lindsay on November 28, 1862, in Russell County, Alabama.[1] She was one of fifteen siblings and family lived in Columbus, Georgia. She was educated by a music teacher from the age of 14 to 16.[1]
Dubose worked as organist at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus until her marriage and also composed instrumental music.[1] She married at an early age and gave birth to a son, Walter Howard Dubose.[2]
Activism
[edit]In 1890, Dubose, her sisters (Helen Augusta Howard and Claudia Howard Maxwell) and their widowed mother, organized the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).[2][3] Dubose served a vice-president of the association,[1] which was affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[4][5] She attended the 1894 annual convention in Washington D.C.[4]
After her sister convinced the NAWSA to hold the 1895 annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia,[6] Susan B. Anthony visited the Howard sisters en route to the convention.[7] Dubose was a delegate to the convention and gave an address titled "Georgia Curiosities."[6] She called for women's enfranchisement in the context of her traditional feminine role as a mother, arguing that: "I am a woman and a mother. I have a son to rear whose pure moral character I am powerless properly to mould and discipline without the ballot."[8]
Dubose was also a member of the National Council of Women of the United States.[citation needed]
After her husband died, Dubose reassumed her maiden name with the honorific Mrs and was known as Mrs Miriam Howard of Columbus, Georgia.[4]
By 1920, she was employed as a stenographer in Columbus.[2] She died in 1945.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, eds. (1893). "Miriam Howard Du Bose". Woman of the Century. p. 261.
- 1 2 3 Gordon, Ann D. (June 10, 2009). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Their Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895. Rutgers University Press. pp. 420–421. ISBN 978-0-8135-6440-1.
- ↑ "Georgia Women: Lives of Sacrifice and Courage". The Atlanta Constitution. March 1, 1994. p. 74. Retrieved October 18, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 Taylor, A. Elizabeth (1944). "The Origin of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 28 (2): 63–79. ISSN 0016-8297.
- ↑ New Peterson Magazine. C.J. Peterson. 1895. p. 499.
- 1 2 Domet, Sarah (September 14, 2020). "Vote of Thanks". Savannah Magazine. Retrieved October 18, 2025.
- ↑ "Columbus 'Martyr'". Ledger-Enquirer. June 28, 2015. pp. B1. Retrieved October 18, 2025.
- ↑ Braden, Waldo W. (March 1, 1999). Oratory in the New South. LSU Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-8071-2516-8.