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Known for | Social Reform, Suffragist, Candidate for California Assembly |
Minora Ellis Kibbe (née Minora Ellis) was a social reformer and suffragist from California. [1] She ran for a seat on the San Francisco area school board in 1908, [1] [2] and for California's 36th State Assembly district in 1918. [3] [4]
Kibbe studied medicine for many years, eventually completing a doctor of medicine degree at Johns Hopkins University. [5]
Kibbe ran for a seat in the California Assembly in 1918. [6] This part of an organized effort by women's rights activists in California to have a woman run for a seat in the Assembly from every district throughout the state. [6]
Kibbe was a practising physician. [7]
Kibbe was a noted California suffragist who frequently lectured on the topic of women's suffrage. In 1904 Kibbe served as the president of the Forty-First District Political Equality Club. [8] She also served on the executive board of the California Equal Suffrage Association. [9] Kibbe attended a number of gatherings where she heard Susan B. Anthony speak including one in San Francisco in 1905. [10] At that gathering she organized with numerous other suffragists including Mary Sperry. [11] In August 1911 she gave a talk in Oakland about the suffrage amendment on the California ballot that year. [12] California suffragist Selina Solomons praised her activism in her book "How We Won the Vote in California." [13]
Kibbe was born in Unionville, Nevada. She was married to George Kibbe, and had a son named George Ellis Kibbe. She lived in Oakland. [5]
Minora Ellis Kibbe | |
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Known for | Social Reform, Suffragist, Candidate for California Assembly |
Minora Ellis Kibbe (née Minora Ellis) was a social reformer and suffragist from California. [1] She ran for a seat on the San Francisco area school board in 1908, [1] [2] and for California's 36th State Assembly district in 1918. [3] [4]
Kibbe studied medicine for many years, eventually completing a doctor of medicine degree at Johns Hopkins University. [5]
Kibbe ran for a seat in the California Assembly in 1918. [6] This part of an organized effort by women's rights activists in California to have a woman run for a seat in the Assembly from every district throughout the state. [6]
Kibbe was a practising physician. [7]
Kibbe was a noted California suffragist who frequently lectured on the topic of women's suffrage. In 1904 Kibbe served as the president of the Forty-First District Political Equality Club. [8] She also served on the executive board of the California Equal Suffrage Association. [9] Kibbe attended a number of gatherings where she heard Susan B. Anthony speak including one in San Francisco in 1905. [10] At that gathering she organized with numerous other suffragists including Mary Sperry. [11] In August 1911 she gave a talk in Oakland about the suffrage amendment on the California ballot that year. [12] California suffragist Selina Solomons praised her activism in her book "How We Won the Vote in California." [13]
Kibbe was born in Unionville, Nevada. She was married to George Kibbe, and had a son named George Ellis Kibbe. She lived in Oakland. [5]