March is Women’s History Month Finette B. Nichols, born in 1864 in Fairfield, CT began commuting to NYC in 1884 to work for Dr. Henry Morehouse, for whom Morehouse College is named. He was the corresponding secretary to the American Baptist Society. The ABS trained teachers and provided services for the poverty stricken of the world. When Morehouse died in 1914, my cousin was 40 years old. Those years inspired her many decades of community service in Fairfield, organizing food banks for Fairfield’s poor, sending books to Pitcairn Island and housing nurses who worked with wounded Spanish American War soldiers in a nearby Home. Then at aged 67 in 1931 she ran as the GOP candidate and was elected as Fairfield’s first woman state legislator. She was re-elected 8 times until she became ill in 1947. She fought to repeal Prohibition. During World War II she composed a bill to establish a Jewish homeland.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:41:52 +0000
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