Local History

All links courtesy of Miami County Indiana Worth Remembering. Article list may be updated periodically as more articles become available.

The Circus

The Barnum & Bailey’s Circus Women’s Equal Rights Society
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-barnum-baileys-circus-womens-equal.html

War

WWI Women stories
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/index.html

Women’s Committee – National Council of Defense Registration Cards:
http://miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/Womenscards/index.html

The Soldiers of WWI
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/MCI-veteranslist.html

Surgical Dressing Committee of the Miami county Chapterhttp://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/surgicaldressingcomm.html

Miami County Indiana Chapter of the American Red Cross
The Formation of Hospital Garments and Supplies Committee 1919
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/RXhosp_garmentsandsuppliescom1919.html

Canteen
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/canteencomm.html

Knitting Department
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/KnittingDept.html

The Miami County Chapter of the American Red Cross
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/AmRedCross/ARC-miamicoformation.html

Influenza in Miami county and the World
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/articles/Influenza_Otiker_Brooks.html

Armistice Day centennial
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/stories/ArmisticeDay.html
(The Poppy Project,
Centennial event,
Armistice Day)

Women’s stories

Sojourner Truth, by Joseph A Dugdale
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/06/sojourner-truth-by-joseph-dugdale.html

Lizzie Bunnell Read, Pioneer “Printeress”
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/07/

Marie Stuart Edwards
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/09/marie-stuart-edwards.html

Ellen Cole Fetter, 1st President of the Peru Franchise League
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/09/ellen-cole-fetter-1st-president-of-peru.html

The African American Women of the Eleventh District
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-african-american-women-of-eleventh.html

A Daughter of Indiana: Ellen Cole Fetter
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-daughter-of-indiana-ellen-cole-fetter.html

Minnie Antrim
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/mem_antrim_minnie_f.html

Harriet Carfrae
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/mem_carfrae_harriet_l.html

Katherine Rose Kreutzer
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/mem_kreutzer_katherine.html

Mary Alice Lamb
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/mem_lamb_mary_alice.html

Mabel Munro
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/mem_munro_mabel.html

Mary Melinda Swain
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/women/mem_swain_mary.html

Bessie Labonte Cole
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/AmRedCross/cole_bessie.html

Sarah Baer Levy
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/military/WWI/AmRedCross/levy_sarah_baer.html

A Family Affair (Brenda Weaver)
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-family-affair.html

Voting rights for women

The Suffragists of Miami County, IN
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/11/

From Dublin to Peru
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/12/from-dublin-to-peru.html

Visiting Evangelist-Suffragist Emma Molloy
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2021/01/visiting-evangelist-suffragist-emma.html

First to Register: Lorna Dresser
https://mciwr.blogspot.com/2020/12/first-to-register-lorna-dresser.html

Miscellaneous

A Tour of the Courthouse, by Matt Demchak
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/stories/courthousetour.html

Miami County Indiana Worth Remembering website:
http://www.miamicountyinworthremembering.org/