The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 40, September 18, 2005, Article 18

EXHIBIT HONORS MINT DIRECTOR NELLIE ROSS

The Star-Tribune of Jackson Hole, WY reported today on
the opening of a new museum in Laramie, WY that includes
an exhibit on Mint Director Nellie Tayloe Ross:

"...the Wyoming House for Historic Women was dedicated
Saturday to pioneer voter Louisa Swain and the women who
followed her.

The windswept dedication ceremony at the downtown Laramie
site followed the kickoff Friday of a lecture series examining
the progress and setbacks women have encountered since
Swain's historic vote in a territorial primary election on Sept. 6,
1870.

Weldon Tuck, director of the sponsoring Foundation for Laramie,
Wyo., described Swain at the dedication as "the first woman in
the world to vote in full equality with men."

"Another contains memorabilia of Wyoming's Nellie Tayloe Ross,
the nation's first female governor and the first woman to head the
United States Mint. They range from a personally inscribed
photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to cards she
received from Wyoming grade school children on her 100th
birthday. One of them says, "100, Wow!"

Ross's grandson, Bradford Ross III of Newburg, Md., reminisced
about his grandmother and saluted Swain as a woman who "started
a movement which has gone across the nation and throughout the
world."

Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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