LibraryLinks Spring 2005
Archives House Civil War Era Diaries on Women’s Rights
By Randall Miles
Margaret Woodruff Leyden of Rochester, NY was one of the women who registered to vote with Susan B. Anthony on November 1, 1872. She was also one of the women who voted with Ms. Anthony on November 5, 1872. Within the Civil War Manuscripts Archives in the Binghamton University Libraries, there is a collection of fifty-one diaries spanning forty-nine years from 1860 to 1908 which relate directly to Margaret Leyden. They are part of the Maurice Leyden Collection. These diaries may prove useful in research into Women’s Rights: Maurice Leyden mentions the 1872 vote and Susan B. Anthony’s subsequent trial in his 1872 and 1873 diaries. There is also potential for other research within this collection.