Rosa L. Segur

Rosa L. Klinge Segur (January 30, 1833 – December 26, 1906) was a German-born American writer and suffragist, leader of the Toledo Woman Suffrage Association.

Rosa L. Segur
Rosa L. Segur, from a 1908 publication
Born
Rosa L. Klinge

(1833-01-30)January 30, 1833
Hesse, Germany
DiedDecember 26, 1906(1906-12-26) (aged 73)
Dallas, Texas
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter, Suffragist
Spouse(s)
Daniel Segur
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(m. 1851; died in 1876)​

Early life

Rosa L. Klinge was born at Hesse, in Germany, the daughter of Edward Klinge and Jeannetta Freilach Klinge.[1] She moved to the United States in 1838 with her parents, and settled in Toledo, Ohio in 1840.[2]

Career

Segur wrote a women's column for the Toledo Blade newspaper.[3] She also wrote articles about women for Locke's National Monthly in the 1873.[4][5]

Segur was a leader in the Toledo Woman Suffrage Association from its founding in 1869. "The dominant figure in the Toledo Association for nearly two score years was Mrs. Rosa L. Segur," recalled a 1908 article, "a woman who would unflinchingly have faced the cannon's mouth for her cause."[6] She lobbied the state government for changes in laws about widows' and married women's property rights.[7] She also worked for the hiring of police matrons in Ohio cities, and women physicians in state-run institutions.[8] In 1905 she wrote A History of Woman Suffrage in the Maumee Valley, her memoir of activism.[9]

Personal life

Rosa L. Klinge married Daniel Segur in 1851, as his second wife. They had two children, Daniel (1859-1917) and Fannie (1856-1930). Rosa was widowed when Daniel died by suicide in 1876.[10] Rosa L. Segur died in Dallas, Texas in 1906, aged 73 years.[11] The Segur Family Papers are archived in the Local History program of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.[12]

References
  1. Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, eds., A Woman of the Century (Moulton 1893): 640.
  2. Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, eds., American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits (Mast, Crowell, Kirkpatrick 1897): 640.
  3. Jacquelyn Masur McElhaney, Pauline Periwinkle: And Progressive Reform in Dallas (Texas A&M University Press 1998): 29. ISBN 9780890968000
  4. Rosa L. Segur, "The Genius of the Cary Sisters" Locke's National Monthly (June 1873): 306-308.
  5. Rosa L. Segur, "Mary Somerville" Locke's National Monthly (November 1873): 535-537.
  6. Elisabeth J. Hauser, "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Ohio" Ohio Magazine (February 1908): 89-90.
  7. "Ohio Woman Suffragists" Akron Beacon Journal (May 20, 1890): 4. via Newspapers.com
  8. "Untitled news item" The Yellow-Jacket (January 24, 1907): 1. via Newspapers.com
  9. Rosa L. Segur, A History of Woman Suffrage in the Maumee Valley (1905).
  10. "Funeral Obsequies" Wheeling Intelligencer" (December 7, 1876): 1. via Newspapers.com
  11. "Noted Woman Suffragist" The Eagle (December 28, 1906): 2. via Newspapers.com
  12. Segur Family Papers, Mss. Coll 19, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

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