392:"It was voted to raise in Pennsylvania an endowment fund to be known as the Lucy Kennedy Miller fund. The income from this fund will be administered by three trustees. Mrs. Miller, as long as she lives, will be one of these trustees. During Mrs. Miller's term as state chairman the two remaining trustees will be elected by the state board…. The income from the Lucy Kennedy Miller fund will in no case be applied to overhead expenses, nut will be used for special educational and propaganda work undertaken by the League of Women Citizens. The Allegheny County delegation present at Philadelphia voted to raise a minimum of $ 2,000 as their contribution to this fund…. Mrs. Miller was deeply touched by the action of the convention and was greatly delighted that the recognition of her service took the broad form of an endowment fund."
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critical reviews … conducted interviews," and "showcased the accomplishments of women in art, music and drama alongside celebrity endorsements from the leading ladies of the day," according to Eliza Smith Brown. "One news item welcomed the first
Colored Women's Equal Franchise League of Pittsburgh to the struggle…. Suffrage news from abroad cited progress in more than 20 countries."
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Kennedy Miller handled the city desk assignments. On print day, Euphemia "threw the hefty lever that set the spinning rolls and whirring wheels in motion. And as the first damp paper came off the presses, she took hold of it triumphantly." Thousands of women were then given newspaper bundles
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Between the 1930s and 1950s, Lucy
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Wednesday, May 1, 1907, when she married John Oliver Miller. The wedding was held at her family's home, and was officiated by "the Rev. Dr. William J. Reid, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church." Her sister, Eliza, served as her sole attendant while her brothers J.J. Kennedy, Julian Kennedy
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contributor, was awarded the job of managing editor, and was also placed in charge of the pressroom, which was under the control of the
International Printing and Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America. The union's secretary, W.J. Smith, issued her a limited-term membership to "work in the
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Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania were given permission by the newspaper's management to write and produce the February 29 edition of the publication. A "Women's Suffrage Edition," the sixteen women "wrote news stories, editorials and
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in the Southern states will be forced to do equally as well unless they expect to see the prize of the votes of more than 25,000,000 women who already have been enfranchised snatched away from them in the presidential election of
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for distribution via "limousines and on foot" across Pittsburgh. Brown notes that "The paper contained more local advertising than any other Pittsburgh paper that day, and its circulation was the highest in the Sun's history."
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with a commemorative gift, which was engraved with about the historic achievement, as well as her "name, recorded for posterity, with no indication of her marital status … Lucy Kennedy Miller."
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was ratified by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in June 1919, she became the first woman to ever address the Pennsylvania State Legislature. In her remarks that day, she said:
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Jr., and Thomas Walker Kennedy served as three of the groom's seven ushers. Miller's brother, J.D. Miller, was the best man. They had three children: Julian Kennedy Miller,
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