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Edna Buckman Kearns (December 25, 1882 – June 1, 1934) was a suffrage activist who worked on the 1915 and 1917 New York campaigns for votes for women, as well as the National Woman's Party campaign for the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution.〔Naylor, Natalie A. (Women in Long Island’s Past: A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives ). The History Press, 2012, p. 122.〕 Kearns is best known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon, called the “Spirit of 1776,” that was used in New York City and Long Island suffrage parades, pageants, and special organizing events.〔Kearns, Marguerite. “(Hitch a ride on the women’s suffrage wagon ),“ Newsday. March 18, 2010.〕〔Stein, Geoffrey N. “(Suffrage Wagon: Rolling for Women’s Right to Vote ).” Legacy magazine. The Magazine of the New York State Museum. Vol. 4, No. 1. Summer 2008. 〕 The suffrage wagon is in the collection of the New York State Museum and was exhibited at the state museum in 2010.〔Emmert, Sara A. “(Museum exhibit honors birth of women suffrage in New York ),” Legislative Gazette. March 8, 2010. 〕 The New York State Capitol exhibition in the Hall of the Governors, “From Seneca Falls to the Supreme Court: New York’s Women Leading the Way,” featured the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon in 2012. ==Early life== Edna May Buckman was born to Charles Harper Buckman (1857–1914) and Mary “May” Begley (1857–1914) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, as well as Plymouth Heights in Montgomery County near Norristown at Echo Dale, the Buckman family home. Edna was the oldest child; she also had a brother, Thomas Smith Buckman (1886–1959). The Buckmans were members of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers.〔Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Also, Buckman Family Reunion file in Friends Historical Library collection.〕 Edna May Buckman graduated from Friends' Central School in Philadelphia. Edna and her family were members of Green Street Monthly Meeting, a Quaker Meeting in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Mary or “May” Begley Buckman, Edna’s mother, was a temperance activist active with the Religious Society of Friends and other organizations. Edna was in the ninth generation of Buckmans in America whose ancestors immigrated to Philadelphia with William Penn on the ship ''Welcome'' in 1682. The Buckmans were the largest family group on the ''Welcome''. The first generation of Buckmans in the Pennsylvania colony purchased land and farmed in Bucks County. Over the years, Buckman family members also lived in Montgomery County, as well as Philadelphia.〔“E.D. Buckman genealogical collection on the Buckman and allied families,” Historical Society of Pennsylvania.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edna Buckman Kearns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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