Mary Frame Thomas
/Overview
Mary Frame Thomas (née Myers) born Montgomery County, Maryland October 28, 1816 (d. 1888). Quaker (later Methodist) doctor. Radical nonresistant abolitionist; prison reformer; suffragist. Founded utopian nonviolent commune, Marlborough, OH, 1841. Editor of women's journal Lily, 1857. President, American Women's Suffrage Association, 1880-85. Raised daughter Julia Irvine, who became president of Wellesley College, 1894-99. (photo spydersden)