Matilda Hall Gardner

Matilda Hall Gardner (1871–1954) was an American suffragist and a member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party.

Matilda Hall Gardner
Born
Matilda Hall

1871 (1871)
Died1954 (aged 82–83)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationSuffragist
Spouse(s)Gilson Gardner

Life

Gardner née Hall was born in Chicago, Gardner spent much of her life in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter of Frederick Hall, an editor of the Chicago Tribune, and married to Gilson Gardner, a Washington representative of Scripps newspapers. Educated in Chicago, Paris, and Brussels, Gardner was one of the original core of activists who worked with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns when they first came to Washington to work for the Congressional Committee. She was a member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party beginning in 1914. She was arrested on July 14, 1917, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse; and on January 13, 1919, she was sentenced to 5 days in District Jail.[1] In jail, she participated in a hunger strike with 22 other convicted suffragists.[2]

Beginning in 1914 Gardner served on the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party.[3]

She died in 1954.[4]

References
  1. Stevens, Doris (1920). Jailed for Freedom. Boni and Liveright. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Biographical Sketch of Matilda Hall Gardner". Online Biographical Dictionary of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  3. "Mrs. Gilson Gardner marching in Procession". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  4. "Matilda Hall Gardner (1871 – 1954)". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
Mrs. Gilson Gardner marching in Procession ca. 1913.
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