Name Emma Bugbee | Education Barnard College | |
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Died 1981, Warwick, Rhode Island, United States | ||
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Emma Bugbee (1888 – October 6, 1981) was an American suffragist and journalist. She participated in and reported on the 1912 Suffrage Hike from New York City to Albany, New York.
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She was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She later moved to New York. She graduated from Barnard College and taught Greek courses at a high school in Methuen, Massachusetts. She became a reporter for the New York Herald and the New York Herald Tribune. She was the first woman report to be hired for the Herald's city room (Ishbel Ross would be the second).
In 1914 she covered the Suffrage hike from Manhattan to Albany, New York. In 1976, she moved to Warwick, Rhode Island. She died on October 6, 1981, in Warwick, Rhode Island.
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