Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1859, Jan. 9 | Born, Ripon, Wis. |
| 1880 | Graduated from Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa |
| 1883-1884 | Superintendent of schools, Mason City, Iowa |
| 1884 | Married Lee Chapman (died 1886) |
| 1890 | Married George Catt |
| 1890-1900 | Worked with organization committee, National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1900-1904 | President, National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1900-1920 | Worked for woman suffrage through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
| 1904-1923 | President, International Woman Suffrage Alliance |
| 1911-1912 | Made world tour for the suffrage cause |
| 1915-1920 | President, National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1919 | Helped found the National League of Women Voters |
| 1923 | Published with Nettie Rogers Shuler Woman Suffrage and Politics (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 504 pp.) |
| 1923-1947 | Devoted herself chiefly to the peace movement |
| 1925-1932 | Helped organize and served as chairman, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War |
| 1928 | Death of longtime partner Mary "Mollie" Garrett Hay, with whom Catt lived intermittently before George Catt's death in 1905 and thereafter shared a permanent home |
| 1947, Mar. 9 | Died, New Rochelle, N.Y. |