Ada M. Cole Bittenbender

(1848-1925) lived in Osceola, Polk County, and in Lincoln. Attorney, women's rights advocate, temperance leader, known for securing legal rights for women and children, served as superintendent of legislation and petitions for the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, gained admission to practice before the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, credited with drafting bill, enacted in 1889, that raised statutory age of consent for women in the District of Columbia to sixteen years, became Nebraska's first woman attorney in 1882. Consult Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, eds, A Woman of the Century (C. W. Moulton, 1893) 87-88 and Notable American Women 1607-1950, Vol 1 (Belnap, 1971) 153-154 and Peggy A. Volzke Kelley, Women of Nebraska Hall of Fame (Nebraska International Women's Year Coalition, 1976) 19-20.

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