Pyke, Mrs. A. B.

Mrs. A. B. (Bernice) Pyke lived in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland and in 1918 was elected to its Board of Education by its members. She was the chairwoman of the Woman Suffrage Party of Greater Cleveland. During World War I she was chairwoman of the Cuyahoga County War Savings Committee. In 1920 she was elected by the Ohio Democratic party as the sole female delegate from Ohio to the party's national convention. Her selection was in recognition of women working with the party, and in anticipation of ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment before the upcoming presidential campaign. Mrs. Pyke was married to Arthur B. Pyke who ran a real estate office.