Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
Biography of Florence Allen, 1884-1966
Wikipedia sketch accessible at: [LINK]
Florence Ellinwood Allen was a lawyer and a New York Supreme Court judge. She lived for a period at Henry Street Settlement in New York City and worked with Maud Wood Park of the College Equal Suffrage League. While still a law school student she participated in the New York to Washington, D.C. suffrage "hike" that preceded the great NAWSA suffrage parade in the nation's capital in March 1913.
See also her biographical sketch in Notable American Women. [Vol. 4, 11-13]
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