Today in Wheeling History: October 4–Beulah Boyd Ritchie, suffragist and educator from Wheeling, passed away (1939).
Beulah Boyd Ritchie was born in 1864 in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Annie Caldwell Boyd and George Edmund Boyd. She attended Wooster University and later taught in Missouri and West Virginia, including at Fairmont State. Beulah married Charles M. Ritchie in 1893, and they had one daughter. She was a prominent suffragist, temperance leader, clubwoman, educator, and librarian. Beulah was a longtime member of the Fairmont Political Equality Club and served as president of the West Virginia Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1903. Her father, Judge George E. Boyd, was also an advocate for women's suffrage and drafted a bill for women to vote for Presidential electors in 1901. Beulah passed away on October 4, 1939, and is buried in the Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont, West Virginia.
To learn more: Alexander Street (https://shorturl.at/qVvmr), West Virginia Department of the Arts (https://shorturl.at/8pUWf), Find a Grave (https://shorturl.at/8q1Xb), Wikipedia (https://shorturl.at/UgdRe)
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Beulah Boyd Ritchie was born in 1864 in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Annie Caldwell Boyd and George Edmund Boyd. She attended Wooster University and later taught in Missouri and West Virginia, including at Fairmont State. Beulah married Charles M. Ritchie in 1893, and they had one daughter. She was a prominent suffragist, temperance leader, clubwoman, educator, and librarian. Beulah was a longtime member of the Fairmont Political Equality Club and served as president of the West Virginia Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1903. Her father, Judge George E. Boyd, was also an advocate for women's suffrage and drafted a bill for women to vote for Presidential electors in 1901. Beulah passed away on October 4, 1939, and is buried in the Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont, West Virginia.
To learn more: Alexander Street (https://shorturl.at/qVvmr), West Virginia Department of the Arts (https://shorturl.at/8pUWf), Find a Grave (https://shorturl.at/8q1Xb), Wikipedia (https://shorturl.at/UgdRe)
Photo credits: Find a Grave
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