Biographical Sketch of Rosa L. Segur

written by Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, 1839-1898 and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, 1820-1905; in American Women - Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century, Vol. II (New York, NY: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897, originally published 1897), 232-232
Biographical Sketch of Rosa L. Segur, written by Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, 1839-1898 and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, 1820-1905; in American Women - Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century, Vol. II (New York, NY: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897, originally published 1897), 232-232. Included in Part III: Mainstream Suffragists—National American Woman Suffrage Association, .
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Biography of Rosa L. Segur, 1833-1906

 

SEGUR, Mrs. Rosa L., woman suffragist, born in Hussar, near Cassel, Germany, 30th January, 1833. When she was five years old her parents made the journey to America, settling first in Detroit, Mich., but finally, in 1840, selecting Toledo, Ohio, for a permanent home. Before she had completed her sixteenth year, she was a successful teacher in the same school. In 1851 she became the wife of Daniel Segur, whose encouragement of her literary efforts was constant. Three years before marriage she had begun to write short stories and sketches for the Toledo "Blade," which won public favor. She has been from the first a stanch supporter of movements in favor of woman suffrage. To her belongs much of the credit for obtaining the repeal of obnoxious laws in regard to the status of women in the State of Ohio.

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