Abigail Scott Duniway

The opponent the board leaves out lived in her own family. Her younger brother, Harvey W. Scott, edited The Oregonian, the dominant paper in the state, and it opposed woman suffrage for as long as he ran it. Oregon voted the measure down in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908 and 1910; in 1900 it lost by 2,137 votes, and Duniway blamed her brother's editorials. Scott died in 1910. On November 5, 1912, the measure passed by 4,161 votes, the paper backed it, and she wrote the proclamation the board quotes.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Champoeg — 11 mi
  The river-bend meadow where settlers voted for a government in 1843, and where the Willamette took the entire town but one warehouse eighteen years later.
• Vanport — 32 mi
  Briefly Oregon's second-largest city, built in about 110 days for Kaiser's shipyard workers, washed away in an afternoon in 1948, and later renamed out of existence.

More markers nearby

• Joel Perkins — 0.2 mi
• Dayton Blockhouse — 2.4 mi
• Willamette Post — 8.4 mi
• Champoeg — 10 mi