SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 2:00 PM.
Louisa Jacobs in New York State: Reform and Enterprise
UTICA, N.Y. –Explore the fascinating life of Louisa Jacobs, daughter of Harriet Jacobs (author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), with scholar Susan Goodier. Learn about her connection to Upstate New York, from attending school in Clinton and participating in Underground Railroad activities in Dolgeville, to touring with Susan B. Anthony and serving as a companion to the daughters of famous columnist Fanny Fern.
Louisa Jacobs attended the Kellogg School in Clinton, NY. She also spent summers living with the Brockett family of Brockett’s Bridge/Dolgeville and became involved in their Underground Railroad activities. She served as a companion and governess to the daughters of Fanny Fern (the highest-paid newspaper columnist in the nineteenth century); then, after the Civil War, she toured upstate NY with Susan B. Anthony and the American Equal Rights Association. Finally, she spent a summer working in the Martin family jam-and-jelly business in Auburn, NY.
Susan Goodier, PhD, is an honorary fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society, a
member of the New York Academy of Historians, and a lecturer for the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Series. Her first book, No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement, appeared in 2013, and her second book, coauthored with Karen Pastorello, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State, won an Award of Excellence from the American Association of State and Local History. She is currently preparing a biography of Louisa Matilda Jacobs.
The program will be held on October 17 at 2 p.m. at the Oneida County History Center, located at 1608 Genesee Street, Utica. It will take place in the History Center’s main gallery.
Oneida County History Center is a private 501(c) (3) not-for-profit educational institution dedicated to preserving the history, heritage, and culture of the Greater Mohawk Valley for present and future generations. Admission to this program is free for the general public; donations are encouraged. Please contact the History Center at 315-735-3642 or visit oneidacountyhistory.org for additional information.
