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Lydia Hasbrouck was elected to the school board of Middletown, New York in 1880. Some sources claim that she was elected by the "Equal Rights" element in the town. In 1884 Hasbrouck ran Presidential Elector for the Equal Rights Party, supporting Belva A. Lockwood. Certainly Hasbrouck was well-known in the woman's movement for her work as a dress reformer, activist, and editor of a newspaper, The Sybil.
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Lydia Hasbrouck's Campaign for School Board Member, 1880
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