From collection Candidates
H. Anna Quinby was a lawyer educated at Ohio State University, College of Law. She received her degree in 1909. At a suffrage rally in 1912, at which Belva A. Lockwood was a speaker, Quinby was nominated for Governor of Ohio, by a voice vote. There is little evidence that Quinby actually conducted a campaign for governor. Some time in the 1920s she was a Republican candidate for the office of Municipal Judge in Columbus. Quinby also served as the editor in chief of a weekly newspaper based in Columbus, The Ohio Woman, from 1912-1917. She was active in various woman suffrage organizations, including the Ohio Woman's Tax Payer League. For several years Quinby was an organizer and lecturer for the state Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In the 1910 federal census Quinby was living with Ella June Pursell, also listed as an attorney at law. Pursell was listed as "partner" in the census record, and may have been a law partner, apprentice (she was 22 years old in 1910), or a domestic partner.
