Below are a few clippings regarding Dr. Virginia Harley McKnight (1841-1918), a physician in Fair Haven and the Village’s only female mayor (then title Village President). She may have been the first female mayor in New York State. Continue reading “Dr. Virginia McKnight, Fair Haven’s Female Mayor”
The first Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848. The ideas born here spread quickly. Below is what we’ve found so far about the Suffragists in Fair Haven. Please contribute any additional information you have for this page.
Below is an excerpt from a paper written by Belle Kirk Rea and read by her at the Oswego Historical Society on the evening of May 17, 1949. Mrs. Rea was then 76 years old and died three years later. He was born in February of 1873 at Sterling Center. Her paternal grandmother, Martha McCrea Kirk, died in 1886 when Belle was 13 years old, placing the probable date of the meeting mentioned between 1878 and 1885. Continue reading “The Suffrage Movement”