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Reverend Chauncy Hobart of Red Wing

Reverend Chauncey Hobart of Red Wing, c.1870. Chaplain of the Third Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers. Chaplain of the House in the first Territorial Legislature and of the State Legislature in 1877.

Harriet Hobart with her husband and three reverends at Minnehaha Falls

Reverend John Harrison Macomber (standing at center) with Reverend James Franklin Chaffee, Chauncey and Harriet Hobart, and Reverend John Hooper at Minnehaha Falls.

Hobart, Harriet Duncan (1825–1898)

After New York City schoolteacher Harriet Duncan came to Minnesota in 1868, she became an advocate for temperance and women's suffrage. She was president of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for seventeen years and urged the WCTU to work on behalf of women's rights more broadly.

Chinese Bazaar at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis

Chinese Bazaar at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, c.1935. Chinese Minnesotans like Woo Yee Sing and his wife Liang May Seen were prominently involved with Westminster's Chinese outreach programs.

Yee Sing Woo standing in front of Yee Sing Laundry, 1319 Nicollet, Minneapolis

Yee Sing Woo, husband of Liang May Seen, standing in front of Yee Sing Laundry, 1319 Nicollet, Minneapolis, c.1895.

Wedding portrait of Woo Yee Sing and Liang May Seen

Wedding portrait of Woo Yee Sing and Liang May Seen. Photograph by George M. Dempsie, c.1893.

Liang May Seen and Woo Yee Sing while on their honeymoon at the Columbia Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

Liang May Seen and Woo Yee Sing while on their honeymoon at the Columbia Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. 1893.

Liang May Seen with her son, Howard

Liang May Seen with her son, Howard. Photograph by George M. Dempsie, c.1910.

Liang May Seen (c.1871–1946)

Liang May Seen was the first woman of Chinese descent to live in Minnesota. After escaping from a brothel in San Francisco, she learned English, married, and moved to Minneapolis, where she was a leader in the Chinese immigrant community until her death in 1946.

Cooke, Marvel Jackson (1901–2000)

Marvel Cooke was a pioneering journalist and political activist who spent her groundbreaking career in a world where she was often the only female African American. Talking about her work environment for the white-owned newspaper the Compass, she told biographer Kay Mills in 1988, ''there were no black workers there and no women."

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