Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....FERRIS, Ida M. October 6, 1919
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The Topeka Daily State Journal,Monday, October 6, 1919
 Mrs. Ida Ferris Dead.
Noted Kansas Author, Suffragist and Club Woman Was in 70th Year.

Osage City., Oct. 6.--Mrs. Ida M. FERRIS, age 70, noted author of historical
works and prominent as a leader of the woman's suffrage and women's clubs in
Kansas, is dead her today.
Mrs. Ferris took a leading part in the movement for suffrage and was
distinguished for her remarkable leadership of the women's clubs. She was the
organizer of the Osage County Federatiorn of Women's Clubs, the first one ever
organized in the world.
She was a prominent member of the State Historical society and was the author of
the "Sacs and Fox Indian Nation History" and compiled many other historical
works, including "Reminiscences of Osage County."



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