Martha A. B. Conine was a state legislator in Colorado, a women's suffragist, and a leader of women's clubs.

She was born in New York. She married J. M. Conine. She moved to Wisconsin and then Colorado. She served as president of the North Denver Women's Club.[1]

She represented Arapahoe County in the Colorado House of Representatives.[2] She was a speaker at a women's suffrage conference in Washington D. C.[3] She supported passage of a primary nomination law.[4][5]

She wrote to Mariana Wright Chapman (1849 - 1910).[6] The Denver Public Library has an item related to her in its calling card collection.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Municipal Affairs: A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Consideration of City Problems from the Standpoint of the Taxpayer and Citizen. Reform Club, Committee on Municipal Administration. 1898.
  2. ↑ "Women who served in the Colorado House of Representatives |".
  3. ↑ Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association: And the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Woman's Rights Convention, at the Columbia Theatre ... Washington, D.C., February 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1898. The Association. 1898.
  4. ↑ The Twentieth Century Magazine. Twentieth Century Company. 1911.
  5. ↑ Proceedings of the Conference for Good City Government and the Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League. 1900.
  6. ↑ http://inherownright.org/records/oai-digitalcollections-tricolib-brynmawr-edu-sc_163837
  7. ↑ "Collection: Calling card collection | Denver Public Library ArchivesSpace". archives.denverlibrary.org.
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