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About Elizabeth Baldwin Kent
Elizabeth Sherman Kent (Thacher)
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 87727277
Elizabeth Kent (September 22, 1868 – August 14, 1952) was an environmentalist and women's rights activist. Together with her husband, U.S. Congressman William Kent, she helped create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the government. She was the president of her local chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
The great-granddaughter of American founding father Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and the daughter of Yale University Professor Thomas Anthony and Elizabeth Baldwin (Sherman) Thacher. In 1890, she married William Kent and they moved to Marin County, California. They had seven children. Both William and Elizabeth were active in local politics. When the coastal redwood forest in Marin was to be cut down, the couple purchased 611 acres and donated 295 acres to the federal government. These woods became the Muir Wood National Monument. She had corresponded to John Muir about nature and conservation.
After her husband was elected to Congress, in 1911, the Kent family moved to Washington D.C.. Elizabeth was active in women's rights and worked for getting women suffrage. She was a featured speaker at the 1913 and 1914 the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) conventions. She became a member of their Congressional Committee. She helped form the Congressional Union (later renamed the Women's Party). She was involved in picketing the White House in support of suffrage.
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, she became involved with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In 1937, she became president of the Marin County chapter. In 1945, she participated in the meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco.
- Part I: Militant Women Suffragists—National Woman’s Party, Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Thacher Kent
- Elizabeth Thacher Kent: Suffragist, Jailbird and Biographer by the US National Park Service
- Elizabeth Baldwin Thacher Kent - John Muir Exhibit - Sierra Club
- William Kent Records at Yale University
- Letter from Elizabeth Thacher Kent to John Muir, (ca. 1909) May 17.
- Elizabeth Thacher Kent discusses her Suffrage Activities in Washington D.C. and London
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Elizabeth Baldwin Kent's Timeline
| 1868 |
September 22, 1868
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New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1890 |
December 6, 1890
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1892 |
May 8, 1892
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1894 |
January 8, 1894
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1895 |
July 5, 1895
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1900 |
August 7, 1900
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Kentfield, Marin County, California, United States
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| 1903 |
December 6, 1903
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1906 |
June 8, 1906
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1952 |
August 14, 1952
Age 83
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Marin County, California, United States
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