LEACH Jessie Marion

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DAR ID Number 11266

1912 - A big meeting was held in June at the YMCA to secure a suffrage amendment to the Ohio Constitution. Jessie Davisson, wife of prominent lawyer Oscar Davisson, was elected president of the Woman’s Suffrage Party of Montgomery County and held the office until ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Later that year the organization’s name was changed to the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Dayton and Montgomery County. It had 25 members. Two years later there were 500 members. The biggest opponents in Ohio to woman’s suffrage were the liquor and saloon interests. John H. Patterson gave the suffrage association office space in the Schwind Building and a gift of $4,800-with strings attached. The gift must remain anonymous and they had to notify him of all other income and how it was used.

Jessie married DAVISSON Oscar Fulton on 18 Jun 1889. Oscar (son of DAVISSON Josiah and FOOS Hannah) was born on 12 Jun 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]