Men and Women on Woman: Jackson County, Oregon, 1875-1885
Pacific Northwest History Conference April 24, 1981
by Margaret N. Haines
handwritten inscription on first page: "To the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Thank you for your help and your patience while I was writing my thesis and this paper. Margaret N. Haines 4 April 1981
this echoes Chapter Seven of Haines' thesis. she notes that all of the writers shared a belief in the existence of a universal feminine nature. James M. Sutton and Mrs. Charles Goodchild of Ashland, thought women were basically intelligent and responsible and could be trusted with the right to vote. Oliver C. Applegate, members of Southern Oregon Pioneer Society obituary committee and some unnamed female poets in Jacksonville saw women as being conventional domestic idealists with the truly feminine woman as faithful, self-sacrificing and being a generous and industrious housekeeper. Jacksonville teenagers, members of the Independent Literary Society tended to trivialize women, joking about such feminine foibles as hypocrisy, caprice and nagging. the Ashland Tidings, under editor James M. Sutton, took a stand in favor of women suffrage, early in its history.