Marietta Stow
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Marietta Lois Beers Stow (died 1902) ran for Governor of California as the candidate of the Women's Independent Political Party. She and Clara S. Foltz nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for President of the United States, and Stow ended up supporting her on the ticket of the Equal Rights Party as their Vice Presidential candidate in the United States presidential election, 1884.
She was the editor of a publication, Women's Herald of Industry. She created a fad diet known as "cold food."
Her husband Joseph W. Stow died in 1872.
[edit] External links
- Picture This: California’s Perspectives on American History
- Belva Ann Lockwood: For Peace, Justice, and President By Frances A. Cook
- Stumpers-L Archive
[edit] Further reading
- Reda Davis. The Life of Marietta Stow, Cooperator'.
- California Women: A Guide to Their Politics, 1885-1911.
- Donna Schuele (1995). "In Her Own Way: Marietta Stow's Crusade for Probate Law Reform Within the Nineteenth-Century Women's Rights Movement," Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 7 (2): 279-306
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