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TERRITORIAL DAUGHTERS OF COLORADO
SOUTHERN CHAPTER
Lectures and Events
Walking Tour Old Colorado City
May 13, 10:30-11:30
Presented by Pikes Peak Library District
Join Pikes Peak Library staff for a free 45 minute
walking tour of historic Old Colorado City. No
registration necessary, but groups should call ahead.
Please come prepared for weather--sunny or cool
accordingly. In case of rain, a slideshow will be
presented in the library meeting room. Contact David
if you have questions.
Where: Old Colorado City Library - 2418 West Pikes
Peak at Old Colorado City Meeting Room
FREE EVENT
Foster House Stage Stop Celebration
June 3rd
Please join the Apishipa Valley Historical Society as they celebrate The Foster House Stage Stop being placed on the National Register of Historic Places with a tour of the Foster House site. The site is located on private property, so this will be a great opportunity to see the sight that is usually closed to the public, Please follow the website and Facebook page for further details on this celebration. Tamara Estes can also be contacted for more information
FREE EVENT
More Events and Lectures can be found on the website.
May Birthdays
Margaret Storm—May 11
Jennifer Vernetti– May 27
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Please let Tamara Estes or
Peggy Martin know when your
birthdays are. We are trying to
ensure we recognize our
members, especially our older
members.
May 2017
In this issue:
• May meeting
• May Birthdays
• Lectures/Events
•State meeting
•Carrie C. Holly
•May Calendar
Monthly Newsletter
Photo Caption
www.southerncoloradoterritorialdaughters.org
June State Meeting
The Greeley Centennial Chapter
will be hosting the June State
meeting in Platteville, Colorado on
June 10th at the Double Tree
Restaurant from 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Details and reservation information
can be found in the April State
TDC Newsletter, or by calling Kay
Evatz at (719) 776-6491 or
Genevieve LeBlanc at (719) 857-
2756.
To Subscribe / unsubscribe to the monthly email list contact Tamara Estes at:
(tjestes2@gmail,com or territorialdaughters@gmail.com)
May Meeting
May 20th meeting will be held at the golf
course restaurant at Lathrop State Park, west
of Walsenburg. The meeting will be at noon.
A map is located on the website and a link is
in the email.
RSVP to Marie Romero by May 13th with your
meal selection of pot roast or chicken. Phone
(719) 676-2031 or email tmvromero@aim.com
The program will presented by the Apishipa
Valley Historical Society on the Foster House
Stage Stop. The Foster House was recently
placed on the National Register of Historic
Places. It is located east of Aguilar.
Colorado Women’s Suffrage in
Southern Colorado
Carrie C. Holly
(July 1, 1856 –July 16, 1943)
Colorado became the first state in the Unit-
ed States to enfranchise women by popu-
lar vote in the election of 1893. Male voters
approved the referendum on November 7,
1893. Governor Davis Waite signed the bill
approving women’s suffrage. The first
woman to register to vote was the wife of
Colorado’s first governor John Routt. (This
followed universal women’s suffrage in
Wyoming Territory in 1869. Wyoming was
granted statehood in 1890). The first three
women to serve in any legislature in the
United States were elected to be Colorado
State Representatives in 1894. They were Clara Cressingham and Frances
Flock of Arapahoe County, and Carrie Clyde Holly of Pueblo County.
Caroline Clyde Holt Holly was born in New York City in July 1856. She came to Colorado in 1889. She was married to Colorado Territorial Supreme Court Justice Charles F. Holly (1819-1901) in 1881. Carrie Holly supported wom-en’s suffrage, and often sent letters addressing Women’s Suffrage meetings throughout the United States. She studied law under her husband and be-came an attorney. Carrie and Charles lived on their ranch at Vineland, Pueblo County with their two daughters at the time of her election. She served a two-year term in the legislature. She served on the Vineland School Board prior to her election to the legislature.
Carrie introduced the first bill by a woman to the Colorado legislature. The bill increased a girls age of con-sent from 16 to 18. The bill passed and was signed by the governor after contentious debate. Carrie supported bills for “local options” to regulate the sale of liquor, and giving mothers the same rights to their children as fa-thers.
Charles Holly passed away in 1901 in Beulah, Colorado. Carrie remarried in 1902 to Richard Dotson of Pueblo. They were divorced in 1909. Carrie contin-ued to live in Pueblo until around 1920, before moving to Colorado Springs for less than two years. By the 1930’s Carrie had moved to Oregon and Washington state with her daughter, Emily. Carrie and Charles’ youngest daughter, Helen, was a teacher at the Helen Hunt School in Colorado Springs. Helen married Arthur Allen Douglas in 1920. Carrie passed away in Castle Rock, Cowlitz County, Washington in July 1943.
Bibliography:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/library/2012/11/02/colorado-women-win-vote-november-7-1893-election/4535/
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hollowell-holmer.html#762.15.23
https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/Colorado.html
Carrie C. Holly on www.ancestry.com
May 2017
Carrie C. Holly
Carrie C. Holly home in Colorado
Springs on E. Cache La Poudre Street
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
30 1 2 3 4 5 6
History of
the Upper
Rio Grande,
Adams
State Univ.
Kentucky
Derby
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Margaret
Storm Birth-
day
Walking
Tour Old
Colorado
City
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Mother’s Day TDC
Walsenburg
meeting
NOON
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Jennifer
Vernetti
birthday/Fort
Garland Re-
enactment
28 29 30 37 1 2 3
Fort Gar-
land Re-
enactment
Memorial
Day
Foster
House
Stage Stop
Ceremony
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TDC
STATE
MEETING
Meeting and Event details available on the website.
www.southerncoloradoterritorialdaughters.org
MAY 2017
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