Brown, Olympia (1835-1926)

US campaigner for voting rights for women. After ordination as a Universalist minister in 1863, she served for 24 years in churches in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Wisconsin, combining pastoral duties with a militant suffrage activities. She was president of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association 1884-1912 and the Federal Suffrage Association 1903-20.

She was born in Prairie Ronde, Michigan. Encouraged by her feminist mother, she was educated at Antioch College and the Universalist divinity school at St Lawrence University. She was publisher of the Racine Times 1893-1900, following the death of her husband.