Annie Maude Norton Battelle

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Annie Maude Norton Battelle
Annie Maude Norton Battelle.jpg
Battelle in 1920
BornJanuary 26, 1865
Birmingham, Alabama
DiedMarch 23, 1925(1925-03-23) (aged 60)
Washington D.C.

Annie Maude Norton Battelle (January 26, 1865 - March 23, 1925) was a suffragette and philanthropist.

Battelle, a Republican, became very active politically after the death of her husband in 1918.[1] She was at protestor at the Republican National Convention in 1920 to lobby for endorsement of women’s suffrage before a presidential nomination was made.[2]

She was president of the Women's Republican Club of Ohio as well as a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of 1924.[1][2] The Battelles had been friends with Warren and Florence Harding and Battelle headed up the women's bureau at Harding's election headquarters.[1] Battelle served on the Annual Assay Commission for 1923, appointed by President Harding.[3]

She helped establish Battelle Memorial Institute, leaving her fortune of about $2 million to the organization when she died.[2] She was the first female trustee of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.[4][5]

Battelle was born Annie Maude Norton in Birmingham, Alabama to Samuel Edwin Norton and Julia Justina Alston Norton.[1] She married Colonel John Gordon Battelle, a steel magnate in Memphis, Tennessee in 1881. They moved to Cincinnati and Piqua before settling in Columbus, Ohio in 1905.[6] They had one son Gordon Battelle, who died in 1923. Battelle died of heart disease in Washington D.C. on March 23, 1925.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mrs. J. G. Battelle Expires in Hotel". Evening Star. 1925-03-24. ISSN 2331-9968. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  2. ^ a b c "Women's History Month 2020: Annie's Impact on Battelle". Inside Battelle. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  3. ^ "ASSAY COMMISSION FOR 1923". The Numismatist. XXXVI (4): 17. April 1923.
  4. ^ "Annie Maude Norton Battelle". Columbus Metropolitan Library. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  5. ^ "annie maude norton battelle Archives". Columbus Neighborhoods. 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  6. ^ "Battelle Memorial Institute". Touring Ohio's Many Destinations. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
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