Existing comment:
"If I could have had a vote, it would have saved me and my children $500.00"
In 1877, Marriann Hosmer of Bedford, Massachusetts, petitioned Congress to give women the ballot, "not as a gift but as an act of justice to all women; that they may have a right to their property, their children and themselves; which they have never had." Without the vote, she had been unable to counter a measure -- passed by one vote -- that called for a costly road through her farm. |