tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post1664278035185385923..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: Clarina Nichols, Frontier FeministLKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-85203373524718919232015-01-15T19:27:22.086-06:002015-01-15T19:27:22.086-06:00Thanks for sharing this most interesting informati...Thanks for sharing this most interesting information, Eric. I had not heard of Etta Semple until reading what you wrote. It sounds like she was quite a woman.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-58276742891007778962015-01-15T19:25:55.344-06:002015-01-15T19:25:55.344-06:00One website says that "in 1856 Nichols moved ...One website says that "in 1856 Nichols moved the family to Wyandotte County where she became associate editor of the Quindaro Chindowan, an abolitionist newspaper."<br /><br />Quindaro, which was founded in 1856, is in the north part of what is now Kansas City, Kansas. <br /><br />And Diane's book was published by Quindaro Press.<br />LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-83508245246571307002015-01-15T19:14:37.974-06:002015-01-15T19:14:37.974-06:00Thinking Friend Eric Dollard writes,
"Thanks...Thinking Friend Eric Dollard writes,<br /><br />"Thanks, Leroy, for the information below. I had not heard of Clarina Nichols until now.<br /><br />"Another Kansas suffragette was Etta Semple, who ran a sanatorium in Ottawa Kansas until her death in 1914. . . . Etta was opposed to racial bigotry and a proponent of free thought and the working class."<br /><br />Eric then linked to a website, which says that Etta Donaldson was born in 1855 "into a Baptist family in Quincy, Illinois. After being left a widow with two sons in 1887, she married Matthew Semple, of Ottawa, Kansas, and they had one son. Etta became Ottawa's town radical, espousing freethought, feminism, opposing racial bigotry, capital punishment, and 'blue laws.'" <br /><br />Eric went on to write, "Etta was married to my great-grandfather's brother. My great-grandfather, Robert Semple, served in the Kansas House in the 1890's as a Populist from Ottawa. His brother, Etta's husband, was a Socialist."<br />LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-89345338097170808262015-01-15T08:12:59.075-06:002015-01-15T08:12:59.075-06:00Thanks for the blog today, Leroy.
Apparently Clar...Thanks for the blog today, Leroy.<br /><br />Apparently Clarina Nichols ran an abolitionist newspaper in Wyandotte Co., Kansas.<br /><br />Wouldn't it be nice if we could get the ERA passed? That could happen now that the Republican Party controls both houses and most states! LOL rolling over...Antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945285810893867079noreply@blogger.com