{"id":2568,"date":"2024-08-21T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/?post_type=mwhof&#038;p=2568"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:59:01","slug":"emily-burton-ketcham","status":"publish","type":"mwhof","link":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/emily-burton-ketcham\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Burton Ketcham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(1838 \u2013 1907)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A native of Grand Rapids, Emily Burton Ketcham was born in 1838 and dedicated thirty years of her life to women\u2019s right to vote. Ketcham was the best known of the founders of Grand Rapids\u2019 suffrage groups, having been a chartered member and serving four times as the president of the state organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ketcham was instrumental in suffrage reform movements on the local, state, and national levels. She and her suffragist colleagues, notably Mary L. Doe and May Stocking Knaggs, underwrote the later important work of Clara Arthur and Lucia Voorhees Grimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ketcham\u2019s work began in 1873 during the initial effort to remove gender as a qualification for voting in Michigan. During that campaign, she developed lasting friendships with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. On the strength of Ketcham\u2019s organizational prowess alone, Stanton and Anthony brought the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to Grand Rapids for its annual convention in 1899.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By special invitation, Ketcham spoke in the Woman\u2019s Building at the 1893 Chicago World\u2019s Fair, and in 1894, she addressed the Congressional Judiciary Committee in Washington. Her presence there was permanently registered in a Matthew B. Brady photograph featuring Ms. Ketchum and Susan B. 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