Laura M. Johns

Laura M. Johns
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornLaura Lucretia Mitchell
December 18, 1849
Lewistown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJuly 22, 1935(1935-07-22) (aged 85)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Resting placeGypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kansas, U.S.
Occupationsuffragist, journalist
LanguageEnglish
Spouse
James B. Johns
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(m. 1873)​
Laura Johns, a woman of the century

Laura M. Johns (née, Mitchell; December 18, 1849 – July 22, 1935) was an American suffragist and journalist. She served as president of the Kansas State Suffrage Association six times, and her great work was the arrangement of thirty conventions beginning in Kansas City in February, 1892.[1] She also served as president of the Kansas Republican Woman's Association,[2] superintendent of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union,[3] and field organizer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[4] Johns died in 1935.

  1. ^ Logan 1912, p. 558.
  2. ^ Gustafson 2001, p. 85.
  3. ^ Gordon 2013, p. 20.
  4. ^ Osselaer 2016, p. 33.