Lucy Louisa Coues Flower's Campaign for University Trustee, 1894

Flower, Lucy Louisa Coues

Lucy Flower was the first woman elected to a state office in Illinois. Flower was elected to board of trustees of the University of Illinois in 1894. Flower was a seasoned activist with especial concern for poor and deliquent children in Chicago. In 1891 Flower was appointed to the Chicago Board of Education. Flower came from a reforming family. Her parents were colleagues of abolitionists a...