Clara Bewick Colby

(1846-1916) lived in Beatrice, Gage County. Women's activist and publisher, her Woman's Tribune was probably the first woman's paper published daily by a woman, lectured from 1909 to 1916 throughout the United States and Europe, influenced women's rights leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Consult American National Biography, Vol 5 (1999) 194-195 and A History of Women in the United States by State Reference (Grolier Academic Reference, 2003) and Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

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