Emma A. Cranmer

Emma A. Cranmer
"A Woman of the Century"
BornEmma Amelia Powers
October 2, 1858
Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedJanuary 11, 1937(1937-01-11) (aged 78)
Minnesota, U.S.
Resting placeLakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupationtemperance reformer, woman suffragist, author, lecturer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materCornell College
Genreprose, verse, epigram
Literary movementsuffrage, temperance
Spouse
Delos N. Goodell
(m. 1880; died 1882)
,
Simeon Harris Cranmer
(m. 1884)
ChildrenFrances Willard Cranmer Greenman

Emma A. Cranmer (née, Powers; after first marriage, Goodell; after second marriage, Cranmer; October 2, 1858 – January 11, 1937) was an American temperance reformer, woman suffragist, and author. A talented suffrage speaker and prohibition representative, she served as president of the South Dakota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association. Some of her epigrams were published by the press.[1] Cranmer died in 1937.

  1. ^ Peterson 1895, p. 498-99.