Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon
Wadesville woman who lectured for the extension department of the University of Virginia and was to speak at the Harrisonburg Normal School's summer session in 1923. She had worked for ratification of the woman suffrage amendment.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of July 5, 1923 reports that Miss Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon, of Wadesville, who is connected with the extension department of the University of Virginia, will be one of the principal speakers at the summer session of the Harrisonburg Normal School, and that she took an active part in creating sentiment for ratification of the amendment to the Federal Constitution giving women the right to vote.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of July 5, 1923 reports that Miss Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon, of Wadesville, who is connected with the extension department of the University of Virginia, will be one of the principal speakers at the summer session of the Harrisonburg Normal School, and that she took an active part in creating sentiment for ratification of the amendment to the Federal Constitution giving women the right to vote.
What the source supports
That Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon of Wadesville lectured for the extension department of the University of Virginia in 1923.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item's praise of her as a lecturer is the paper's own. It does not date her work for ratification. Her father, Lewis Pidgeon, is not recorded here, and she is not linked to Cassie Pidgeon.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The July 5, 1923 personal item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., July 5, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-07-05 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, personal item on a lecturer to speak at the Harrisonburg Normal School
Relevant passageMiss Mary Elisabeth Pidgeon, (laughter [daughter] of Mr. Lewis Pidgeon of Wadesville, who is regarded as one of the best woman lecturers in the ountry [country], and who Iq [is] connected with extension department of the University of Virginia, will be one of the principal speakers at the summer session of Harrisonburg Normal School. She will deliver her first lecture on good government Friday. Miss Pidgeon took an active part In creating sentiment for the ratification of the amendment to the Federal constitution, giving women the right to vote.
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