Emma Bugbee

Emma Bugbee (May 19, 1888 – October 6, 1981) was an American suffragist and journalist. She participated in and reported on the 1912 Suffrage Hike from New York City to Albany, New York.

Emma Bugbee
A portrait of a young Emma Bugbee
Born(1888-05-19)May 19, 1888
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
DiedOctober 6, 1981(1981-10-06) (aged 93)
Warwick, Rhode Island
Alma materBarnard College
OccupationJournalist

Biography

She was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She later moved to New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1909 and taught Greek courses at a high school in Methuen, Massachusetts.[1][2] She became a reporter for the New York Tribune, later the New York Herald Tribune.[3] She was the first woman report to be hired for the Herald's city room.[4][5]

In 1914, she covered the Suffrage hike from Manhattan to Albany, New York.[1][4] In 1976, she moved to Warwick, Rhode Island.[1] She died on October 6, 1981, in Warwick, Rhode Island.[1][6]

Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, Maggie Murphy, and Emma Bugbee circa 1910

See also

References
  1. "Emma Bugbee". Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  2. "Veteran sob sister dead at 93". Reporter. Vol. 92, no. 238. October 8, 1981. p. 13. Retrieved December 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Died". Time magazine. October 16, 1981. Archived from the original on October 15, 2010. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  4. "Two Case Histories, Ishbel Ross and Emma Bugbee: Women Journalists Ride the Rail with the Suffragettes". Education Resources Information Center. Retrieved 2009-08-01. Bugbee walked with the suffragists on a week-long winter march from New York City to Albany
  5. Dunlap, David W. (2017-04-06). "1986 | 'Ms.' Joins The Times's Vocabulary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  6. Fowler, Glen (October 10, 1981). "Emma Bugbee, 93. Reporter 55 Years". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-01. Emma Bugbee, a reporter whose colorful career on The New York Herald Tribune spanned 55 years, died on Tuesday in a Rhode Island nursing home at the age of 93.


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