Frances Squire Potter

Frances Boardman Squire Potter (November 12, 1867 – March 25, 1914) was an American academic and activist.

Frances Squire Potter
BornNovember 12, 1867 Edit this on Wikidata
Elmira Edit this on Wikidata
DiedMarch 25, 1914 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 46)
Chicago Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater

Frances Boardman Squire was born on November 12, 1867, in Elmira, New York, to Grace (Smith) and Truman H. Squire.[1][2] She married Winfield S. Potter in 1891.[3]

Potter attended Elmira College as an undergraduate from 1883 to 1887, graduating with an AB, and received a master's degree in 1889.[1][4] She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, shortly after graduating. Initially she taught high school and then became a professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where she was a full professor from 1907 to 1909.[1][4] She did research on the papers of John Milton at the University of Cambridge while on a leave of absence from her professorship around 1907.[5]

Potter left her professorship to become the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), after being elected at NAWSA's national convention in 1909.[3] Around that time, she also chaired the literary committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and edited Life and Labor, its magazine.[3]

She died on March 25, 1914, in Chicago.[6]

Publications

References
  1. Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 772. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. Denk, Marika. "Biographical Sketch of Frances Boardman Squire Potter". Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  3. "Frances Squire Potter '87, Symbol of Woman's High Estate". Star-Gazette. May 8, 1955. p. 16 – via newspapers.com.
  4. Peck, Mary Gray (May 1914). "Frances Squire Potter". Life and Labor. Vol. 4, no. 5. pp. 131–133.
  5. "Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, Brilliant Elocutionist, Praises Oakland Women". Oakland Tribune. May 19, 1909. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
  6. "Mrs. Frances Squire Passes Away". The Muscatine Journal. Associated Press. March 27, 1914. p. 5.
  7. "Papers of Frances Squire Potter, 1879-1923". Schlesinger Library. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  8. "Weekly Record of New Publications". Publishers Weekly. 68 (1758): 914. October 7, 1905.
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