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Women's History — Lakeville
A town of under a thousand keeps its women's history at a small, exact size: a state suffrage course that passed over the township without leaving it a single documented meeting, a council that in November 2026 is two women of three, six working women the record actually carries, and a settlement whose marriages and wills put land in women's names. this section prints each of those at its strength, and its negatives as negatives.
Suffrage — the State Course, with a Correction; the Township an Honest Negative
1851 – 1920 · SB 77, struck down 26 October 1917
The 1917 partial grant was Senate Bill 77 — no carrier names a "Beal act." Indiana's course: Amanda Way called the state's first women's rights convention at Winchester in 1851 — the same year the white male electorate voted…
Firsts in Public Office — Tested One by One
Council president: Martha Tyler, 2012 — earliest documented, first member unproven. Tyler was council president 1 January 2012 – 4 October 2015, the line immediately before her being John Kuhn's through 2011 in the SBOA…
The Club Movement — One Institution Dug, Four Searched Negatives
The Legion Auxiliary of 1933; the rest, silence at searched strength
The Auxiliary's paper predates its own post's. The American Legion Auxiliary unit for Post 363 carries a federal exempt record dated 01/1933 — earlier than the post's own two conflicting dates, which print with it, unmerged…
Working Women — the Roster's Six, Classed
The business-owners roster owns them whole; the class is this branch's
Land, one farm, one bank directorship, one farm-and-trade, and the anchor firm. The record carries six: Frances C. Coquillard , platter of Coquillard's Addition, 18 August 1857; Ruth Brock (b. 1802), farm operator across Liberty…
Black Women's Organising — Its Own Section, at the Township's True Size
The settlement's women, named from the deed and census record
The marriages are the settlement's binding record, and the wills put land in women's names. Jane Clark Huggart (m. Andrew 1839; d. 28 January 1890; her will and life-occupancy in the land record); Sarah (Huggart) Manuel and Mary…
The YWCA test: a county institution since 1903, no Lakeville branch
1903–present · YWCA of North Central Indiana
The YWCA was never addressed in the banked build; here it is, at its county size. The YWCA of North Central Indiana has served since 1903 , headquartered at 1102 South Fellows Street, South Bend , with service sites across St.…
Sisters as workforce: the county frame, and the township's silence
1843–1958 · religious women in the county's institutions
The largest female workforce in the county's nineteenth century wore a habit, and it worked eight miles north of here. Four Sisters of the Holy Cross joined Father Edward Sorin at Notre Dame in 1843, the year after the founding…