Emma A. Cranmer | |
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Born | Emma Amelia Powers October 2, 1858 Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Died | January 11, 1937 Minnesota, U.S. | (aged 78)
Resting place | Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
Occupation | temperance reformer, woman suffragist, author, lecturer |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Cornell College |
Genre | prose, verse, epigram |
Literary movement | suffrage, temperance |
Spouse |
Delos N. Goodell
(m. 1880; died 1882)Simeon Harris Cranmer
(m. 1884) |
Children | Frances 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.