Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners

2006 Peabody women who are builders of community and dreams are the
Peabody Chamber of Commerce's
Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners

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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A TIMELINE of
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
in PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS

1991

January

The Peabody Cultural Clearinghouse, a group of Peabody parents and teachers interested in connecting supplementary cultural arts performances with curriculum, facilitates women's history cultural arts events in Peabody schools.

August

A part of the city's celebration of its 75 year history, Mary Upton Ferrin is discovered as a result of research for newspaper article on women's rights at the time when Peabody became a city in 1916.

October 6

A group of women and girls wearing Victorian-era costumes participate as a contingent (1916 Suffragists: Writing Women Back into History) in Peabody's Jubilee Celebration Parade to honor Mary Upton Ferrin and the women who were not eligible to vote in 1916 when citizens voted to become a city.

"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 son, 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.