Inspired by her Mother

Jessie’s mother Clara Haver, inspired by Susan B. Anthony, climbed into the family’s spring wagon to tour the country side asking men to help give women the right to vote. Clara’s efforts helped secure the victory in 1893. The western women were “wild with joy” when Colorado became the first state to enfranchise women through popular referendum, and it happened over a quarter of a century before the achievement of national women’s suffrage in 1920. Unlike most women in that time, Clara cut her hair short to help manage her all too busy work load on the cattle ranch. Clara died three years later in 1896 when Jessie was just ten years old.