
During the political struggle, safe houses were established to shelter fugitive suffragettes. British women achieved voting rights in 1928.
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Learning about the life of Marie D. Equi, MD, who was once called "The Stormy Petrel of the Northwest"
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One of the Equi family sources has written that he believes his ancestors are named in the Aeneid of Virgil, in the following citation:
Ferter Resius / rex Aequeicolus
is preimus / ius fetiale paravit
inde p(opulus) R(omanus) discipleinam excepit
Et te montosae misere in proelia Nersae
Ufens, insignem fama et felicibus armis;
horrida praecipue cui gens adsuetaque multo
venatu nemorum, duris Aequicula glaebis:
armati terram exercent semperque recentis
convectare iuvat praedas et vivere rapto.
Ferter Resius, king of the Equis
was the first to obtain the right of the feziali.
Therefore, the people of
You went to battle in the mountenous Nerse,
Proud and strong with invincible fame,
tough like your people used to the long hunts in the forests:
the Equis made of very tough soil,
who work the earth fully armed and everyday,
always find new prey, surviving through robbery.
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Aftershocker!
If those imprisoned by the states can be pardoned, can our President pardon those convicted in the federal courts, such as Marie Equi? Here in San Francisco, many people were tried for sedition in the federal courthouse. The federal judges were known to show little sympathy, especially for people of German ancestry.
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Historian to discuss Oregon doctors after 1906 quake
Michael Helquist, an historian, will speak on "K.A.J. MacKenzie, Marie Equi and the Oregon Doctor Train" at 12:15 p.m. May 12 in the Old Library Auditorium at Oregon Health & Science University.
Helquist will discuss how a group of 40 doctors and nurses went to San Francisco to help in relief efforts two days after the 1906 earthquake. He is writing a biography of Dr. Marie Equi, a graduate of Oregon's medical school and a radical activist.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the OHSU History of Medicine Society.