Edna purtell suffragist biography

By Julianna Spring, undergraduate student, Central Connecticut State University

Edna Mary Purtell was an Irish American suffragist who lived in Connecticut.

Edna Purtell was born in Hartford in February 1899 and died (unmarried) in West Hartford in December 1985. In the 1920 census, Edna lived in Hartford with her parents and three siblings and was recorded as a typist. By 1930 she continued to live with her parents and worked as a stenographer in the insurance industry.

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In 1940 she worked for the State of Connecticut in the Labor Department and lived with her father and two younger siblings. Throughout Edna's life she was passionate about women's suffrage, from being president of the Muriel McSweeney club (a women’s organization that supported Irish independence), to being a winner of the Susan B Anthony Award.

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