Marietta Bones, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Marietta Bones

American suffragist, social reformer

Date of Birth: 04-May-1842

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1901

Profession: social reformer, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Marietta Bones (May 4, 1842 – July 11, 1901) was an American woman suffragist, social reformer, and philanthropist.
In 1881 Bones was elected vice-president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and annually re-elected for nine years.
In 1890 suffragist Susan B.
Anthony and supporters of the movement merged the National Women Suffrage Association into the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
In 1882, Bones made her first appearance as a public speaker in Webster, soon to be Webster, South Dakota, where she later resided.
She was an active temperance worker, and was secretary of the first Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1889.
She took great interest in all reform and charitable institutions.