Old Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Susan Look Avery / Woman's Club of Louisville
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 26, 2020
1. Susan Look Avery Marker
Inscription.
Susan Look Avery, also, Woman's Club of Louisville. .
Susan Look Avery. Suffragist, author, orator and founder of The Woman’s Club of Louisville. Avery held an early suffrage meeting in her parlor, with guest lecturer Lucy Stone. Associate of Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington and other reformers. Wife of Benjamin F. Avery of Avery Plow Works. Lived from 1817 to 1915.
Presented by The Woman’s Club of Louisville.
Woman's Club of Louisville. Established on March 1, 1890 as a woman’s volunteer organization for civic, cultural, and community services. Promoted woman’s suffrage, equal property rights, child labor laws, KY Forestry Commission, Juvenile Court, literacy, and public health. Founded Younger Woman’s Club, No-Jury Art Show, and co-founded the Louisville Deaf Oral School.
Susan Look Avery
Suffragist, author, orator and founder of The Woman’s Club of Louisville. Avery held an early suffrage meeting in her parlor, with guest lecturer Lucy Stone. Associate of Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington and other reformers. Wife of Benjamin F. Avery of Avery Plow Works. Lived from 1817 to 1915.
Presented by The Woman’s Club of Louisville
Woman's Club of Louisville
Established on March 1, 1890 as a woman’s volunteer organization for civic, cultural, and community services. Promoted woman’s suffrage, equal property rights, child labor laws, KY Forestry Commission, Juvenile Court, literacy, and public health. Founded Younger Woman’s Club, No-Jury Art Show, and co-founded the Louisville Deaf Oral School.
Erected 2018 by Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Department of Highways. (Marker Number 2566.)
Location. 38° 13.924′ N, 85° 45.655′ W. Marker is in
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Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County. It is in Old Louisville. Marker is on South 4th Street, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1320 South 4th Street, Louisville KY 40208, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Also see . . . Susan Look Avery (Wikipedia). (Submitted on December 3, 2020, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.)
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 26, 2020
2. Woman's Club of Louisville Marker
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 26, 2020
3. Susan Look Avery / Woman's Club of Louisville Marker
Public domain, circa 1902
4. Susan Look Avery
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, 1883-1900, (Rochester, N.Y.: Susan B. Anthony, 1902).
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