Ruth Sterry
Ruth Sterry (May 11, 1883June 3, 1938) was an American suffragette, political activist, newspaperwoman, publicist, lobbyist, poet, and advocate for working mothers. Biography Ruth Sterry was born in Emporia, Kansas in 1879, the daughter of Clinton Norman Sterry (1843–1903) and Louise Slocum Sterry, Louise Augusta Slocum Sterry (d. 1931). She had two brothers, Norman Sterry, and Philip Sterry, both White-shoe firm, "white shoe" lawyers, and a sister, the public school teacher and administrator Nora Sterry. Her father, Clinton Sterry, had been a lawyer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Santa Fe railroad. Sterry moved to California with her family in 1896, and attended public schools in Los Angeles. Louise and Ruth Sterry worked together to organize "a day care center for poor working women" at what would later become L.A. Children's Hospital. Ruth and her mother were both prominent suffragettes in Los Angeles County, California. In 1911, after returning from a ...
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