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Builders of
Community and Dreams Project
Mary Upton Ferrin
1810-1881
Peabody Chamber of Commerce
Peabody, Massachusetts
Women's History Month in Peabody: A Retrospective
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"The first change
in the tyrannous laws of Massachusetts was really due to the work of
this one woman,
MARY UPTON FERRIN,
who for six years, after her own quaint method, poured the hot shot
of her earnest conviction of woman's wrongs into the Legislature.
In circulating petitions, she traveled six hundred miles, two-thirds
of this distance on foot. Much money was expended besides her
time and travel, and her name should be remembered as that of one of
the brave pioneers in this work."
- History of Woman Suffrage,
Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
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Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners
2006 Audrey Gordon
2005 Grace Martins
2004 Camille Bartlett
2003 Natalie Maga
2002 Judy Selesnick
2001 Sgt. Sheila McDaid
2000 Trudy MacIntyre
1999 Mary Richardson
1998 Nancy Crowder
1997 Paula Alexander
1996 Donna Healey
1995 Susanna Levine
1994 S. M. "Sudi" Smoller
1993 Karen McCafferty
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Peabody's Women Builders of
Communities and Dreams Display
at the Cullen Memorial Library, Higgins Middle School, April 2006
"Award to us our proper
station in society; abolish all unjust laws in regard to us;
withhold from us no longer our natural rights as human beings,
children of one Parent, members of the same family... As husbands
and sons, as fathers and brothers, show to the world that you are not
only manly, but humane; that you know how to pity as well as to
protect; which will reflect honor, not only to your head, but to
your heart, and future generations will revere your memory.
All that we ask, is what justly belongs to us; we ask it not only as
a favor, but as a right." - Memorial of the Female Signers of the
Several Petitions of Henry A. Hardy and Others, Presented March 1,
1849 to the "Gentleman of the Senate and House of Representatives"
by Mary Upton Ferrin. |