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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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A TIMELINE of
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
in PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS
1992
March 4
- Mayor Peter Torigian
proclaims Women's History Month
March 21
- George Peabody House
exhibits on "A Women's Mill Worker"
March 24
- Nineteenth century mill
girl visits Peabody's seventh grade.
March 25, 30, 31
- History students at
Higgins Middle School meet Mary Upton Ferrin, feminist pioneer
April 9
- Peabody Chamber of
Commerce's Community Service Committee begins discussion on a
proposed Mary Upton Ferrin Award
May
- An informational meeting
on the League of Women Voters is held as an extension of the
1916 Suffragist contingent. The group decides to resurrect
the defunct local league.
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S. M.Smoller visited fourth grade classrooms at each of the city's
eight elementary schools during March to present information about
Mary Upton Ferrin.
June 29
- The Peabody Chamber of
Commerce's Board of Directors voted unanimously to accept the
recommendation of the Community Service Committee that the
Chamber establish an annual Mary Upton Ferrin Award.
August 26
- Women's Equality Day - A
wreath is laid at Ferrin's grave and the establishment of the
Equality Coalition of Peabody is announced at a ceremony at the
George Peabody House Civic Center. The coalition strives
to address issues of sexual discrimination and gender bias and
plans to conduct equality audits of public and private
organizations.
October 15
- Representatives of the
City of Peabody, Peabody School Department and Peabody Women's
History Project join with the Peabody Chamber of Commerce's
Community Service Committee to further develop and implement
plans for the Award.
November 12
- Criteria for the Mary
Upton Ferrin Award is adopted by the Community Service Committee
of the Peabody Chamber of Commerce
November 30
- Public announcement of
the creation of the Mary Upton Ferrin Award
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"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. |