Wenona Marlin (November 15, 1871 — September 8, 1945) was an American suffragist, journalist, and writer.
Early life Wenona Marlin was from Greenfield, Ohio, the daughter of Vance Marlin, a Union Army veteran,Vance Marlin, Soldier Details, The Civil War, National Park Service. and Mary Ellen Porter Marlin. She attended Greenfield High School as a member of the Class of 1888.Noted People, Greenfield Historical Society.
Career Marlin was active in the suffrage movement in New York City. In 1912 she reported to a polling station in Washington Square, although New York women did not yet have the vote, and refused to leave, claiming that she only wanted to observe the process."Woman in Polling Place" New York Times (6 November 1912): 10. She spoke at suffrage meetings"Suffrage at Bay Ridge" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 27, 1913): 8. via Newspapers.com and was a frequent author in the letters section of the New York Times. "The fact that many men today regard the vote with such little respect is partly due to the fact that never did anything to earn it," Marlin commented in one such letter in 1915.Wenona Marlin, "Vote they Had is Lost" New York Times (14 February 1915). In 1917, she joined the New York chapter of the Congressional Union on a trip to Washington, to take a shift as a White House "silent sentinel"."To Flaunt Wilson's Own Words At Him" Washington Herald (26 January 1917): 4. After suffrage was won, Marlin continued to be active with the National Woman's Party in New York."Plan Equal Rights Fight" New York Times (5 November 1923): 15.
Literary works by Wenona Marlin include Will o' the Wisp and Other Stories (1912).Wenona Marlin, Will o' the Wisp and Other Stories (Pulitzer Publishing 1912). As a journalist, Marlin reported from the construction of the Panama Canal,Wenona Marlin, "Women in Making the Canal" New York Times (September 22, 1912): X8. then told the story of her efforts to prove her American citizenship as a single woman, upon returning to the United States.Wenona Marlin, "Am I a Citizen?" Pittsburgh Press (August 4, 1912): 44. via Newspapers.com
Personal life Wenona Marlin died in New York in 1945, aged 73 years.
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