Lovica Tuttle Lusted City of Gresham Certificate of Voter Registration

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Description

Town of Gresham Certificate of Registration for Lovica Tuttle Lusted, listing her name as Mrs. L.T. Lusted and her precinct as Gresham, her place of birth as Ohio, her occupation as housekeeper, and her party affiliation as "Refused". Dated November 14, 1913; age incorrectly listed as 54 (she was born in 1849, making her 63-64 at the time). Height listed as 5'4" and weight as 113 lbs. Signed by witnesses Frank C. Jones and Benj. Mathews, both of Gresham, and City Recorder D.M. Roberts.

Provenance

Lovica Tuttle Lusted (1849-1928) was born in Ohio and moved to Oregon in 1875, settling with her husband Talbert Lusted in an area of East Multnomah County that is now called Lusted. They are buried in the Pleasant Home Cemetery. Talbert died in 1892, leaving Lovica widowed. She moved to a home on East Powell in Gresham with her daughter Inez in about 1904, where she lived until her death on February 28, 1928.
Oregon women won the right to vote in the 1912 general election, making Lovica among the first women in the state to register to vote (Abigail Scott Duniway, the first woman to register to vote in Multnomah County, did so on February 14, 1913).
This certificate was donated by her great-great-grandson Robert Stricklan.

Date

11/14/1913

Creator

City of Gresham

Subject

Voter registration

Voting

Women's suffrage

Suffrage

Multnomah County

Location

Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Identifier

ghs20230130002

Contributor

Gresham Historical Society

Extent

Registration, Voter

Type

PhysicalObject

Item sets

Gresham Heritage