Will J. Dusenbury letter to Lucile Atcherson, August 23, 1914

On August 23, 1914, Will J. Dusenbury, the Secretary and Treasurer of the Olentangy Park Co., wrote this letter to Miss Lucile Atcherson, the Executive Secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Dusenbury thanked Miss Atcherson for her recent letter and told her the Olentangy Park Co. was happy to support her cause by helping her in a fundraising pencil sale at their theater. The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex