Dr. Delilah S. Turner Sonnesberger commemorating the right for women to vote.
Dr. Sonnesberger (1828-1890) became a widow at 20 while in Illinois. She began to study and train as a physician. She married again in 1851 and had seven children. Her family moved to Johnson County, Wyoming, in 1878. She cast the first women's ballot there in the 1880s.
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Photo File: Sonnesberger, (Mrs.) D.S., American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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