Ramsey County History – Fall 1997: “‘A Beautiful, High-Minded Woman:’ Emily Gilman Noyes and Woman Suffrage”

‘A Beautiful, High-Minded Woman:’ Emily Gilman Noyes and Woman Suffrage

Author: Rhoda R. Gilman

Emily Gilman Noyes was born into an influential New York family, later moved to St. Paul and became part of still another, the family owning the Noyes Brothers Cutler wholesale firm. She was a crucial member of the Women’s Welfare League and the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association, and later the Ramsey County League of Women Voters. Emily Gilman Noyes died in 1930. The family of course continued on, sometimes tragically—great-granddaughter Edie Sedgwick, one of artist Andy Warhol’s circle, died at age 28.

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