1885 - On July 18, "Woman Triumphant," a marble statue by Joel Tanner Hart portraying a classical nude woman and a Cupid, bought by the Hart's Memorial Association $4,000) and Fayette County ($1,000), was installed in the Fayette County Courthouse[22]
John C. Breckinridge Memorial by Edward Valentine, erected on November 24. The 8 foot bronze statue, on 11 foot pedestal of granite was placed in the center of Cheapside Street on the east of the court-house and facing the building.[23]
1892 – Lexington Standard newspaper begins publication.[4]
1894
The Fayette Equal Rights Association petitioned the Mayor and City Council to appoint a woman on the school board. Mayor Henry T. Duncan appointed Mrs. Wilbur R. Smith.[25]
1895 - Women (black and white) in Lexington began voting in Lexington Public School Board elections.[27] 2000 women voted in Lexington and four women were elected to the Board of Education.[28]
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1902 - Women's right to vote in school board elections in Lexington, Covington and Newport (Kentucky's second-class cities) was revoked by the Kentucky General Assembly.[29] Lexington's Representative William A. "Billy" Klair and Senator J. Embry Allen introduced and led the campaign to repeal the 1894 partial suffrage statute.[30]
^Rachel Foster Avery, ed. (1896). "Kentucky". Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, held in Washington, D.C., January 23d to 28th, 1896. [Washington D.C.: National American Woman Suffrage Association. pp. 128–129. hdl:2027/hvd.rslfc6.
^History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. VI. National Association of Woman Suffrage Association. 1922. hdl:2027/hvd.rslfb7.
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