LARGE, Rowena Guthrie

LARGE, Rowena Guthrie. (Morgan County, OH--Unknown). A co-founder of the Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, Rowena was married to William P. LARGE, a staunch Republican. She was forty-seven years old when she became a pioneer of women's voting rights. (1) In 1875 she served on the original board of the MOUNT PLEASANT HOME. (2)

In 1871 Large wrote:

                 It is not all pleasant to be ridiculed or have the cold
                 shoulder turned to us because we advocate unpopular
                 justice. Still harder is it to have motives of every
                 degree of baseness imputed to us as is done by the more
                 intolerant and malignant of our opponents. (3)

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Source:

1. Noun, Louise, Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in IowaAmes: Iowa State University Press, 1969, p. 115

2. "The Mt. Pleasant Home," Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, April 4, 1929, p. 19

3. Johnson, Elaine, "Dubuque Was Feminist Whippersnapper," Telegraph Herald, March 7, 1982, p. 17