Daughter of Vance Marlin and Mary Ellen Porter.
Single
occupation: retired clerk
Grand daughter of James Porter #10161784 and Catharine Reed Porter #10161782
Greenfield native Wenona Marlin worked to help make the 19th Amendment a reality.
Wenona, the daughter of Vance and Mary Ellen Porter Marlin, was an 1888 graduate of Greenfield High School.
In 1892, she was living in Cincinnati, working as a stenographer for Procter and Gamble.
By 1905, she was living in New York City, where she was a journalist, lecturer, author and leader in the suffrage movement.
Educated at New York University, Marlin was employed by Harper & Row Brothers Publishing Company, traveled through Europe and South America, authored two books, Will o' the Wisp and Other Stories” and New York and Paris Sketches.
In 1912, she reported to a New York polling place and refused to leave, claiming she wanted to observe the process.
She was a speaker at many suffrage meetings. She wrote many letters to the opinion section of the New York Times.
One such letter in 1915 stated: The fact that many men today regard the vote with such little respect is partly due to the fact that they never did anything to earn it.
In 1917, she joined the New York chapter of the Congressional Union in traveling to Washington, D.C. to picket the White House as a Silent Sentinel. Silent Sentinels were women who picketed the White House protesting President Woodrow Wilson’s lack of support for women’s suffrage. They picketed for six days each week from Jan. 10, 1917 until June 4, 1919
when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
After passage of the amendment, Marlin continued being active in the National Women’s Party.
Wenona Marlin died Sept. 8, 1945 in New York City and is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery.
Contributor: Marianna Kerns Morgan (47616369)
Single
occupation: retired clerk
Grand daughter of James Porter #10161784 and Catharine Reed Porter #10161782
Greenfield native Wenona Marlin worked to help make the 19th Amendment a reality.
Wenona, the daughter of Vance and Mary Ellen Porter Marlin, was an 1888 graduate of Greenfield High School.
In 1892, she was living in Cincinnati, working as a stenographer for Procter and Gamble.
By 1905, she was living in New York City, where she was a journalist, lecturer, author and leader in the suffrage movement.
Educated at New York University, Marlin was employed by Harper & Row Brothers Publishing Company, traveled through Europe and South America, authored two books, Will o' the Wisp and Other Stories” and New York and Paris Sketches.
In 1912, she reported to a New York polling place and refused to leave, claiming she wanted to observe the process.
She was a speaker at many suffrage meetings. She wrote many letters to the opinion section of the New York Times.
One such letter in 1915 stated: The fact that many men today regard the vote with such little respect is partly due to the fact that they never did anything to earn it.
In 1917, she joined the New York chapter of the Congressional Union in traveling to Washington, D.C. to picket the White House as a Silent Sentinel. Silent Sentinels were women who picketed the White House protesting President Woodrow Wilson’s lack of support for women’s suffrage. They picketed for six days each week from Jan. 10, 1917 until June 4, 1919
when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
After passage of the amendment, Marlin continued being active in the National Women’s Party.
Wenona Marlin died Sept. 8, 1945 in New York City and is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery.
Contributor: Marianna Kerns Morgan (47616369)
Daughter of Vance Marlin and Mary Ellen Porter.
Single
occupation: retired clerk
Grand daughter of James Porter #10161784 and Catharine Reed Porter #10161782
Greenfield native Wenona Marlin worked to help make the 19th Amendment a reality.
Wenona, the daughter of Vance and Mary Ellen Porter Marlin, was an 1888 graduate of Greenfield High School.
In 1892, she was living in Cincinnati, working as a stenographer for Procter and Gamble.
By 1905, she was living in New York City, where she was a journalist, lecturer, author and leader in the suffrage movement.
Educated at New York University, Marlin was employed by Harper & Row Brothers Publishing Company, traveled through Europe and South America, authored two books, Will o' the Wisp and Other Stories” and New York and Paris Sketches.
In 1912, she reported to a New York polling place and refused to leave, claiming she wanted to observe the process.
She was a speaker at many suffrage meetings. She wrote many letters to the opinion section of the New York Times.
One such letter in 1915 stated: The fact that many men today regard the vote with such little respect is partly due to the fact that they never did anything to earn it.
In 1917, she joined the New York chapter of the Congressional Union in traveling to Washington, D.C. to picket the White House as a Silent Sentinel. Silent Sentinels were women who picketed the White House protesting President Woodrow Wilson’s lack of support for women’s suffrage. They picketed for six days each week from Jan. 10, 1917 until June 4, 1919
when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
After passage of the amendment, Marlin continued being active in the National Women’s Party.
Wenona Marlin died Sept. 8, 1945 in New York City and is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery.
Contributor: Marianna Kerns Morgan (47616369)
Single
occupation: retired clerk
Grand daughter of James Porter #10161784 and Catharine Reed Porter #10161782
Greenfield native Wenona Marlin worked to help make the 19th Amendment a reality.
Wenona, the daughter of Vance and Mary Ellen Porter Marlin, was an 1888 graduate of Greenfield High School.
In 1892, she was living in Cincinnati, working as a stenographer for Procter and Gamble.
By 1905, she was living in New York City, where she was a journalist, lecturer, author and leader in the suffrage movement.
Educated at New York University, Marlin was employed by Harper & Row Brothers Publishing Company, traveled through Europe and South America, authored two books, Will o' the Wisp and Other Stories” and New York and Paris Sketches.
In 1912, she reported to a New York polling place and refused to leave, claiming she wanted to observe the process.
She was a speaker at many suffrage meetings. She wrote many letters to the opinion section of the New York Times.
One such letter in 1915 stated: The fact that many men today regard the vote with such little respect is partly due to the fact that they never did anything to earn it.
In 1917, she joined the New York chapter of the Congressional Union in traveling to Washington, D.C. to picket the White House as a Silent Sentinel. Silent Sentinels were women who picketed the White House protesting President Woodrow Wilson’s lack of support for women’s suffrage. They picketed for six days each week from Jan. 10, 1917 until June 4, 1919
when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
After passage of the amendment, Marlin continued being active in the National Women’s Party.
Wenona Marlin died Sept. 8, 1945 in New York City and is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery.
Contributor: Marianna Kerns Morgan (47616369)
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