Esther Morris

The real “mother of women suffrage” is not a name you’ll find in most history books, not a name that comes immediately to mind as does Susan B. Anthony or Lucretia Mott. But the woman who first got her sisters the right to vote—in a most unlikely place—was Esther Morris of Wyoming. On September 6, 1870—a half century before the United States would give women the national vote—the women of Wyoming went to the polls to become the first fully enfranchised women anywhere in the coun