Priscilla Holmes Drake
American suffragist (1812-1892)
Priscilla Holmes Buell Drake (June 18, 1812 - February 11, 1892) was an American suffragist.
Early life
Priscilla Holmes Buell Drake was born in Ithaca, New York, on June 18, 1812. She was the youngest child of Judge Samuel/Salmon Buell (1764–1828) and Joanna Sturdevant, both of Cayuga County, New York. Judge Buell was a man of much intellectual vigor and marked attainments. He held several important offices in his State, and as senator served more than one term with De Witt Clinton, Martin Van Buren and others of distinction. Judge Buell moved with his family from New York to Marietta, Ohio, where he was held in great esteem.
Career
Drake and her husband worked with Robert Dale Owen during the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 and 1851 to remove the legal disabilities of women. Before the sections were presented, which worked such benefit to women, they were discussed, line by line, in Drake's parlor. She had an acute legal mind, and Owen was not slow to recognize her valuable aid in the construction of the important clauses. It was she who suggested a memorial to Robert Dale Owen from the many noble mothers who comprehended the scope of his work for women.
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