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Frances Dickinson

Fannie

19 January 1856—19 May 1945

Born 19 Jan. 1856 in Chicago.1 Daughter of Albert Franklin Dickinson and Ann Eliza Anthony.2 Traveled with cousin Susan B. Anthony to the Convention of the National Liberal Federation in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Oct. 1882.3 Graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Chicago, 1883.4 Member of the Illinois Woman’s Press, beginning 13 Feb. 1889.5 Founder and president of the Woman’s Medical Union of Illinois for the Advancement of Science and Art of Domestic and Public Hygiene, 12 May 1889.6 Incorporated the Queen Isabella Association to erect a statue of Queen Isabella of Spain at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 20 Aug. 1889.7 Secretary of the Lady Managers for the World’s Columbian Exposition, 4 Nov. 1890.8 Committee chair of the Illinois Woman’s Alliance, 15 Nov. 1890.9 Corresponded with EBW, requesting funds to support the statue of Queen Isabella, 2 Dec. 1890.10 Member of the Woman’s National Suffragist Association, by 1891.11 Received a letter from Susan B. Anthony asking her to serve as chair of the petition committee of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, 20 Dec. 1891.12 Delegate at the twenty-sixth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington, DC, 15 Feb. 1894.13 President of the Harvey Medical College, 1895–1905.14 First woman admitted to the International Medical Congress, 11 Oct. 1903.15 Championed women’s voting rights in Orange City, Volusia Co., Florida, 1919.16 Attended a meeting of the Producers Council concerning equal rights for female workers, in Seneca Falls, Seneca Co., New York, 22 July 1923.17 Flew a plane from Chicago to Florida, 4 June 1927.18 Donated land for and supervised construction of the Betsy Ross Airport in Orange City, 14 Jan. 1932.19 Died 19 May 1945 in Orange City; buried in Chicago.20

Footnotes

  1. 1 Charles L. Anthony, Genealogy of the Anthony Family from 1495 to 1904 (Sterling, IL: By the author, 1904), 216–217. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 17 Dec. 2020), Frances Dickinson (K8BM-4J1).  

  2. 2 Charles L. Anthony, Genealogy of the Anthony Family from 1495 to 1904 (Sterling, IL: By the author, 1904), 216–217. 1860 U.S. Census, Chicago Ward 1, Cook Co., IL, p. 55, Fannie Dicknson. 

  3. 3 “Archive Record: Dr. Frances Dickinson,” Nationalwomansparty.org (https://nationalwomansparty.pastperfectonline.com/archive/1A72658B-E404-4BAD-866D-741736438385, accessed 18 Dec. 2020). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds., History of Woman’s Suffrage, vol. 3 (Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1886), 938, 952.

  4. 4 F. M. Sperry, A Group of Distinguished Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1904), 150.

  5. 5 “All Think of Lincoln: The Illinois Woman’s Press,” Daily Intern Ocean (Chicago), 13 Feb. 1889, 3. 

  6. 6 “Woman’s Medical Union,” Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), 12 May 1889, 7. 

  7. 7 “What Did Isabella Do to Chicago,” Wheeling (WV) Register, 20 Aug. 1889, 1. F. M. Sperry, A Group of Distinguished Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1904), 152. 

  8. 8 “World’s Fair,” Albuquerque Morning Democrat, 4 Oct. 1891, 2. 

  9. 9 “Woman’s Alliance Work,” Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), 15 Nov. 1890, 6. 

  10. 10 EBW, Diary, 2 Dec. 1890. 

  11. 11  “The Suffragists,” Iowa Postal Card (Fayette), 6 Mar. 1891, 2.

  12. 12 Susan B. Anthony, Letter, to Frances Dickenson, National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House (http://susanb.org, accessed 11 Jan. 2021).  

  13. 13 “Woman Suffragists,” Morning World-Herald (Omaha, NE), 16 Feb. 1894, 1.  

  14. 14 Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, eds., History of Woman’s Suffrage, vol. 4 (Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, 1902), 1079. “Deaths and Funerals,” Chicago Daily News, 24 May 1945, 14. 

  15. 15 “Dr. Frances Dickinson, Physician and Humanitarian Worker,” Sunday Repository (Canton, OH), 11 Oct. 1903, 18.

  16. 16 “Great Floridians 2000 Program,” Great Floridians, 2000 (Tallahassee, FL: Florida Department of State, 2000), 46–47.  

  17. 17 “Equal Rights Indorsed,” Los Angeles Sunday Times, 22 July 1923, 3.

  18. 18 “Pioneer Woman Doctor Flies from City to Florida,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 4 June 1927, 32. 

  19. 19 “Women Aviators to Establish Own Airport in Florida,” Tampa (FL) Tribune, 14 Jan. 1932, 3.  

  20. 20 “Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877–1998,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed 17 Dec. 2020), Frances Dickinson; from State of Florida Death Records, 1887–1998, Office of Vital Records, Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville. “Frances Dickinson,” Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Cook Co., IL, Find a Grave, posted 12 Nov. 2016, memorial no. 172621678 (http://findagrave.com, accessed 17 Dec. 2020).