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Sara Louisa <I>MacCormack</I> Algeo

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Sara Louisa MacCormack Algeo

Birth
Cohasset, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
17 Nov 1953 (aged 77)
Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial
Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.2441673, Longitude: -70.8404922
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Her Parents were James MacCormack & Sara Clements MacCormack. Her Husband was James Walker Algeo. No children were born of this marriage.

The youngest of five children, Sara Louise (A.B., Boston University, 1899; A.M., Brown University, 1911) was born in Cohasset, Mass., to John and Sarah Clements MacCormack. She taught at Cranston High School in Rhode Island from 1899 until her marriage in 1907 to James Walker Algeo. She joined the Rhode Island League of Working Women's Clubs; was active with the College Equal Suffrage League in Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association (which she chaired), and the Providence League of Women Voters; and represented the National American Woman Suffrage Association at the 1920 congress of the International Suffrage Alliance at Geneva. The author of "The Story of a Sub-Pioneer", an account of the Rhode Island suffragist movement published in 1925, she is listed in Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-1915.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Sara worked on this issue for more than twenty years.
Her Parents were James MacCormack & Sara Clements MacCormack. Her Husband was James Walker Algeo. No children were born of this marriage.

The youngest of five children, Sara Louise (A.B., Boston University, 1899; A.M., Brown University, 1911) was born in Cohasset, Mass., to John and Sarah Clements MacCormack. She taught at Cranston High School in Rhode Island from 1899 until her marriage in 1907 to James Walker Algeo. She joined the Rhode Island League of Working Women's Clubs; was active with the College Equal Suffrage League in Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association (which she chaired), and the Providence League of Women Voters; and represented the National American Woman Suffrage Association at the 1920 congress of the International Suffrage Alliance at Geneva. The author of "The Story of a Sub-Pioneer", an account of the Rhode Island suffragist movement published in 1925, she is listed in Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-1915.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Sara worked on this issue for more than twenty years.


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