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American suffragette
Madeleine Lemoyne, Mrs. Charles E. Ellicott
(November 14, 1856 ? 1945) was an American
suffragist
. She was the founder of the League of Women Voters of Maryland, serving as its president for 20 years, longer than anyone else.
Life
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Born in
Chicago
, Ellicott studied chemistry at
Rush Medical College
, and then continued her studies at the
Polytechnic
in
Zurich
, Switzerland. In conjunction with the annual
National League of Women Voters
meeting planned for
Baltimore
in 1922, she was one of the organizers of the
Pan-American Conference of Women
.
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She married Charles Ellis Ellicott in 1890. They had three sons, Charles Ellis Ellicott, Jr. (born 1892), Valcoulon Lemoyne Ellicott (born 1893), and John Roman Ellicott (born 1896).
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