Mrs. Rowena Palmer (no dates)
Rowena Palmer was elected to the City Council of Lowell, Massachusetts and was trustee of the public library.
Party Affiliation:
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Resources:
The new womanhood, by Winnifred Harper Cooley
in American Memory Project, Library of Congress
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan7023div15))
[Additional Notes]:
Palmer was the niece of Civil War General Benjamin F. Butler, who later served in Congress and ran for the presidency in 1884 as the nominee of the Greenback/Anti-Monopoly Party. Butler used his position in Congress to support women’s rights.