Was one of three women on the first board of regents at Texas Woman's University, the first women in the state of Texas to sit on a governing board of any university. She was active in women's clubs and was a co-founder of the Woman's Club of San Antonio. Brackenridge was a leader in Texas suffrage organizations and helped get the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution passed. She was the first woman in San Antonio to register to vote. It's the Brackenridge name in Texas that is associated with wealth, philanthropy and achievements.

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Just sending some additional details I found in an old book about this woman's life. Feel free to use it if you like (I included the citation at the end). Thanks, Sherry

BRACKENRIDGE, Miss M. ELEANOR
Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge, a leader in advanced movements among women in Texas, is a native of Indiana. After graduating at Anderson's Female Seminary in New Albany, Indiana, she joined her family in Texas, where they had settled some years previously. Her girlhood was spent in beautiful Jackson county, where she was friends with fill in the joy of life and youth, an eager listener to the romance of the early day; from the lips of those broad-minded makers of history, the Austin colonists.
The most influential organization of that day was the Temperance Society, which constituted the social function of the week in the meeting of young and old. An effort was made by the young men of the society to take the ladies into full membership, granting them voting privileges; at the end of a warm contest, the resulting tie vote was decided in the negative by the presiding officer's vote.
After Miss Brackenridge and her mother removed to San Antonio, their home at the head of the river was a social center, where the Pioneer Club of San Antonio was organized in the year of the advent of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Our Reading Club, the oldest club of San Antonio now surviving, is a legitimate descendant of the Head of the River Mutual Admiration Society. The meeting of the Texas Federation of Literary Clubs in Tyler and the General Federation of Clubs in Denver was a revelation of the wonderful gifts of women and an inspiration to effort, followed by the organization of the Woman's Club of San Antonio, the first department club of the State, which has the honor of freeing the clubs of the limitation of the word "literary." Miss Brackenridge served as president for seven years. The club took the initiative in placing industrial and manual training in the public schools; a police matron and probation officer in the city ball: also the initiative in the study of laws affecting women and children, and other work since taken up by the Federation. The Woman's Club of San Antonio has the honor of being the first to endorse suffrage.
Miss Brackenridge also took a leading part in organizing the Texas Congress of Mothers, of which she is honorary president. Though a believer in the equal rights of women since her girlhood, it was not until she felt that the time was ripe for this feature which all of her other efforts had been leading up to, that she published and distributed over the State a pamphlet, "The Legal Status of Women in Texas," the first fruits of which was a change in the property rights of married women. Miss Brackenridge was one of the three women first to receive recognition by the State in her appointment as Regent of the College of Industrial Arts at Denton, Texas, which office she still holds.
Miss Brackenridge served as president of the Texas Woman's Suffrage Association, of which she is now honorary president, where her interest and influence is still felt. (The Texas Women's Hall of Fame by Sinclair Moreland - 1917 sd)

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