Ida Craft
Ida Augusta Craft (December 25, 1860 – September 14, 1947) was an American suffragist known for her participation in suffrage hikes. Early life Craft was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1860, the daughter of John Craft and Eleanor Voorhies Perlee Craft. Her father was a tailor. Activism Craft was an officer of the Bedford Political Equality League in 1897, president of the Kings County Political Equality League and belonged to the Brooklyn chapter of the Woman Suffrage Party. She attended National Woman Suffrage Association's 1900 convention in Minneapolis as a delegate. She campaigned for suffrage in Ohio in 1912. Known as the "Colonel", because she assisted the "General", Rosalie Gardiner Jones, Craft took a visible leadership role in the 1912–1914 Suffrage Hikes. She was arrested during the hike to Boston with Elisabeth Freeman and Vera Winthrop; they were briefly detained in Hartford, for breaking laws around the use of a vehicle for advertising and the distribution ...
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Suffrage Hikes
The Suffrage Hikes of 1912 to 1914 brought attention to the issue of women's suffrage. Florence Gertrude de Fonblanque organised the first from Edinburgh to London. Within months Rosalie Gardiner Jones had organized the first American one which left from The Bronx to Albany, New York. The second hike was from New York City to Washington, D.C., and covered 230 miles in 17 days. American participants The major participants of the hikes, and the ones who covered the entire distance, were reporter Emma Bugbee, Ida Craft (nicknamed The Colonel), Elisabeth Freeman, and Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who was known as The General. 1912 Suffrage Hike to Albany It began on Monday morning at 9:40 am, December 16, 1912, and left from the 242nd Street subway station in The Bronx where about 500 women had gathered. About 200, including the newspaper correspondents, started to walk north. The march continued for thirteen days, through sun and rain and snow covering a distance of 170 miles, including d ...
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