Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
Biography of Julia F. Abbott, 1870-1935
By Anna Assogba, Research Librarian, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Vice President of Maryland Woman Suffrage Association
Julia F. Abbott was born in 1870 and died in 1935, in Baltimore, Maryland. She lived with her sister, Anna S. Abbott, in Baltimore for most of her adult life. They both worked as school teachers in the Baltimore public school system. Julia was elected to Vice-President of the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association in 1907 and 1908. In 1909, Julia and Anna were among the contributors to the Maryland W. S. A.'s proposal of a bill to the Maryland legislation for the right for women to vote, though ultimately the bill was unsuccessful. Julia and Anna also contributed to much of the work done by the Woman Suffrage Club of Baltimore in 1910-1911, which included regular public meetings and soliciting door-to-door and at the election polls. They also served as representatives of Baltimore County at Maryland state suffrage conventions. Upon Julia's death in September 1935, she left gifts to the Seventh Avenue Baptist Church of Baltimore, the East Baltimore Station Methodist Episcopal Church, the Home of the Aged of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Shriners' Crippled Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the Florence Crittenton Mission.
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“Charitable Institutions Are Bequeathed $13,500: Will of Miss Julia F. Abbott Filed for Probate--Estate Estimated at $60,000,” The Sun (Baltimore, MD), September 27, 1935.
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