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[Up] [Dromo's Den] May Wright Sewall Biography SEWALL,
May Wright (1844-[1920]) An American educator, lecturer, and author,
born in Milwaukee, Wis. She graduated at Northwestern University in 1866 and in
1880 married Theodore L. Sewall, who died in 1895. For many years she was
prominently identified with the woman's suffrage movement and with the education
of women. She was officer of many women's clubs and delegate to numerous women's
congresses, both in the United States and abroad. She was one of the lady
managers of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, in 1900 was a
commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and in 1915 was identified with the Pamama-Pacific
Exposition. For a long time she was principal of a girls' classical school in
Indianapolis, Ind., founded by her husband. Latterly Mrs. Sewall made her home
at Eliot, Me. She wrote on woman suffrage and kindred topics, edited Historical
Résumé of the World's Congress of Representative Women and The International Council of Women, and published Women,
World War, and Permanent Peace (1916). |