Eunice Mignon Brannan

"Father: Charles Dana, founder of the New York Sun and confidante of President Abraham Lincoln.
Spouse Dr. John Winters Brannan (1843-1936) m. 1882
Son: Dana Brannan (1884 - 1965)
Son: Philip Doddridge Brannan b. 14 Sep 1888 d. 26 Oct 1888
Daughter: Eleanor Doddridge Brannan b. 24 Mar 1890"
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"Eunice Mignon Dana was born on August 27, 1854 in Westport, Connecticut to Eunice Macdaniel and Charles A. Dana. The last of the couple's four children, she was called Minnie by her parents. Charles Dana was one of the leading members of the Brook Farm Association, a utopian community experiment (1841-1847) at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where Eunice Macdaniel also lived. They married in 1846 and moved to New York City the following year, where Charles Dana began his newspaper career at the New York Tribune. As a committed social reformer Charles Dana believed that every branch of art, learning, and industry would be available to women in the ideal society, and the Danas raised their children as avid readers and independent-minded seekers of knowledge. Eunice married Dr. John Winters Brannan in 1882.
Brannan was among the earliest members of Harriot Stanton Blatch's Women's Political Union, dedicated to women's suffrage. She helped operate a small shop in New York in 1910 to raise funds for the movement, and served as treasurer. Brannan also traveled to England to observe the British women's suffrage movement. There she learned the effectiveness of public soapbox meetings and encouraged WPU members to use this tactic to draw supporters.
She was elected to the executive committee for the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage in 1915, and in 1917 was elected to the board of the National Woman's Party (NWP). It's during this time Brannan joined the NWP picketing of the White House, in protest of President Woodrow Wilson's refusal to support suffrage. She was arrested twice for this. The first time was on July 14th, 1917. She and the rest of the protesters were pardoned three days later due to a high-ranking husband complaining to President Wilson. Brannan was arrested for a second time on November 14th, 1917, again as one of many peaceful picketers, or Silent Sentinels. This group’s first hours at Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse became known as the Night of Terror. Brannan gives an extensive affidavit regarding the incident, where she claims Occoquan prison superintendent Whittaker ordered guards to brutally attack the protesters. Brannan's husband, Dr. John Winters Brannan, later testified in court on his wife's behalf, playing a crucial role in the judge's decision to grant parole to the protesters. Most of the women declined the offer, but Brannan was among the three women who accepted the parole on November 24th, as her health seriously declined during her time in the Workhouse.
Even after women won the right to vote, Brannan continued to contribute towards women's rights. In 1926, as the chairman of the New York City committee of the National Woman's Party, she wrote a letter to the New York Times in protest of the U.S. government blocking entry to Countess Cathcart due to her affair with Lord Craven. By 1931, Brannan had become the vice president of the New York State Woman's Committee for Law Enforcement. Brannan passed away in 1937, due to complications from a stroke.
Sources: Obituary, New York Times, November 15, 1936."
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"Eunice Dana Brannan (1854-1937) was a feminist activist and a prominent figure in the suffragist movement in New York City. She played an important role in organizing picketings at the White House in protest of president Woodrow Wilson's refusal to support women's suffrage.
Early life
Eunice Dana Brannan was born to Charles A. Dana and Eunice Macdaniel on August 27, 1854 in Westport, Connecticut. She was the youngest of their four children. Charles Dana and Eunice Macdaniel met when they were both living on the Brook Farm Association, an experiment in communal living. After their marriage in 1846 they moved to New York where Charles Dana would become founder of the New York Sun.
In 1882, Brennan married Dr. John Winters Brannan who was a physician and president of the Board of Trustees at Bellevue Hospital. They had three children and their daughter would follow Brennan in joining the women's rights movement.
Activism
In the 1980s, Brannan traveled to England where she gained an appreciation for the public soapbox form of activism used by women's rights activists in the UK.
Brannan was one of the first members of the Women's Political Union, a suffrage group headed by Harriot Stanton Blatch. She served as treasurer to the Union and opened a shop in 1910 to raise money for the suffrage movement. In 1915, she was elected to the executive committee of the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage, during which time she met with Woodrow Wilson, along with a delegation of women, to discuss a constitutional amendment to allow women to vote. In 1917 she was elected as a board member of the National Women's Party and became chairperson of the New York state branch.
Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins and Eunice Dana Brannan
Brannan was arrested twice for picketing outside the White House in protest of President Woodrow Wilson's opposition to a constitutional amendment allowing women the right to vote. The first time was on November 10, 1917 when she led a group of 41 protesters to the White House to protest the imprisonment of National Women's Party leader, Alice Paul. She and the other women arrested were pardoned by the judge of the case. On November 14, 1917 she was arrested again as part of a group of peaceful protesters picketing in front of the White House, who would become known as the Silent Sentinels. She was sentenced, along with the other women, to 60 days in the Occoquan Workhouse. Upon entering the prison, the women were treated violently by the guards in a night now known as the Night of Terror.
Brannan was released on parole after a trial deemed the women not guilty under the law. Her husband, prominent physician Dr. John Winters Brannan, testified at the hearing which influenced the judges decision to pass a not guilty verdict. Brannan was one of only three women who agreed to be released on parole, fearing that further imprisonment under such hard conditions could lead to her death. The rest of the imprisoned suffragettes served their full sentences in the Washington District Jail."
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