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'[[File:Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg,_University_of_Illinois_trustee,_1912.png|thumb|upright|<center>Alexander-Bahrenberg</center>]] '''Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg''' was a member of the [[University of Illinois]] board of trustees and a Republican civic and political activist. ==Personal== She was born as Caroline Thomas in [[Belleville, Illinois]], on March 4, 1861, the daughter of John Thomas of Virginia and Magdalena Von Ave of Switzerland.<ref name=IllinoisDeaths>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2542&h=944286&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe102&_phstart=successSource Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947]</ref><ref name=FindAGrave2>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=119120175&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe105&_phstart=successSource Find a Grave Index]</ref><ref name=Arcadia>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ONNPTf-RJzcC&pg=PA118&dq=Bahrenberg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHicXN8bbbAhVl64MKHT4NAJw4ChDoAQhBMAU#v=onepage&q=Bahrenberg&f=false Robert C. Fietsam, Judy Belleville, Jack Le Chien, and Robert L. Arndt, ''Belleville 1914-1914,'' Arcadia Press, (get date)]</ref> She was graduated from [[Monticello Seminary]], [[Godfrey, Illinois]], in 1880 as class [[valedictorian]],<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16259157/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Vicinity Notes: Monticello," ''Alton Telegraph,'' May 13, 1880, image 8]</ref> at which event she gave an address on "The Differential and Integral Calculus."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/14727392/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Anniversaries," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 9, 1880, image 4]</ref> She also spoke in June 1913 at the 75th anniversary celebration of the founding of the seminary<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16287846/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Seminary Holds Her 75th Anniversary," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 2, 1913, image 4]]</ref> and at a [[class reunion|reunion]] luncheon in June 1915.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16304401/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Graduates 18 in 77th Year," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 8, 1915, image 1]</ref> Her first husband was Daniel P. or Henry Alexander, who died in 1887.<ref name=WomanControls/> Married to William Bahrenberg, a physician, she lived in [[Belleville, Illinois]].<ref name=IllinoisDeaths/><ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> In 1909 she was living in [[Belvidere, Illinois]].<ref name=WomanControls>"Woman Controls Street Railway," ''Daily East Oregonian,'' November 6, 1909, image 6]</ref> She died on November 24, 1929, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and was buried in [[Valhalla Cemetery]] in [[St. Louis County]].<ref name=IllinoisDeaths/> ==Business activities== Upon the 1887 death of her first husband, Mrs. Bahrenberg took over the management of the St. Louis, Belleville & Suburban [[street railway]] system in [[Delhi, Illinois]], a suburb of St. Louis. In an address to the Chicago Women's Club in November 1909 titled "Woman's Ability to Do Man's Work,"<ref name=WomanControls/><ref name=Arcadia/> she said: <blockquote>My former husband barely had started the road .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. when his death forced me to take up the work. For five years, I managed every detail, leading in the work of clearing away snow blockades early in the winter mornings.<ref name=WomanControls/></blockquote> ==Civic activities== ===University of Illinois=== [[File:Illinois_ballot_for_women,_1912.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. Alexander-Bahrenberg is listed in the first column as part of the Republican [[Slate (elections)|slate]] of candidates.<ref name=ballot/>]] [[File:Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Sketches by St. Louis journalist [[Marguerite Martyn]] of Alexander-Bahrenberg campaigning in 1912]] Known as Mrs. Carrie A.-Bahrenberg or Carrie Alexander-Bahrenburg, she was a member of the board of trustees of the [[University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana–Champaign#University_of_Illinois|University of Illinois]] from either 1898 or 1900 to 1912.<ref name=Arcadia/><ref name=BellevilleBusiness>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/138950364/?terms=Bahrenberg Marguerite Martyn, "Belleville Business Woman In Hard Fight for State Office," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch,'' October 26, 1912, image 3]</ref><ref name=ballot>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/92519541/?terms=ballot "Sample of Women's Official Ballot to Be Voted On in Macon County, Illinois, Tuesday, November 5, 1912," ''Decatur Herald,'' November 2, 1912, image 7]</ref><ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/43135_b168717_00018?pid=347207202&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1265%26h%3D347207202%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DFRe103%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe103&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=43135_b168717_00017 ''The Illio 1912,'' image 18]</ref> In 1912, Illinois women were allowed to cast ballots only for University of Illinois trustees.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/126432721/?terms=University%2Bof%2BIllinois%2Btrustees "To Register Next Month," ''The De Kalb Chronicle,'' Illinois, September 21, image 5]</ref> Alexander-Bahrenburg said that she "gladly" gave time to serving on the board, "where the average man with others depending on him possibly could not be so free. It is my belief that this board should always include a woman. The law is lax upon the subject, stating only that a woman 'may' serve. Therefore the woman member should be the one who is willing to fight and hold her ground."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> She said she did not work for the other candidates on the Republican ticket because "there is no use in being interested in the offices I am not permitted to vote for."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> Alexander-Bahrenberg was noted for her years of "outspoken disagreement" with university President [[Edward J. James]], with "her colleagues on the board, and [with] other partisans of the University."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> Nevertheless, she said she held no animosity for James, and she even entertained him and his wife "lavishly" in her home. "But when it comes to business, I know neither friend nor foe," she said.<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> She was instrumental in defeating a legislative appropriation for a [[UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine|veterinary sciences department at the university]]. "Since that time," according to one newspaper account, "the university administration and President Abbott of the trustees" worked against her reelection.<ref name=HardFight>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/69119048/?terms=Bahrenberg "Hard Fight Promised," ''The Pantagraph,'' Bloomington, Illinois, April 19, 1912, image 10]</ref> In 1912, she faced opposition in the Republican state convention in [[Springfield,Illinois|Springfield]] from Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of [[Joseph M. McCormick|Medill McCormick]], proprietor of the [[Chicago Tribune]].<ref name=HardFight/> She was, however, nominated for reelection "despite the combined opposition of the Chicago Women's Club, the Alumni Association and Illini of the University, numbering 5[,]000 students, which endorsed so powerful a candidate as Mrs. Emmons Blaine."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> During her campaign, she said: <blockquote>I know the faculty does not want me on the board. My endorsement consists chiefly of the votes of the people which have given me the biggest majorities ever attained by a political candidate in Illinois. I think I am the woman for t the position because of unique financial training. I was owner and director of the street railway system of Belleville after the death of my first husband, Dr. Alexander. I took in money by the nickels and spent it by the thousands.<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/></blockquote> Alexander-Bahrenberg lost the election.<ref>There is no printed source for the election result, but she was not identified as a board member after 1912.</ref> ===Other=== A leader in the Illinois division of the [[Woman's Relief Corps]], the auxiliary of the [[Grand Army of the Republic]] veterans' organization, she was elected national secretary of the corps in 1915.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/15310766/?terms=Bahrenberg "Monticello Woman in W.R.C. Office, ''The Decatur Review,'' October 1, 1915, image 6]</ref> The other candidates were Isabel Worrell Ball of Washington, D.C., Lois Knauff of Ohio and Lue Steward Wardworth of Massachusetts.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/79958022/?terms=Bahrenberg "Campaign for W.R.C. Presidency Lively," ''The Washington Times,'' September 28, 1915, page 4]</ref> Mrs. Bahrenberg was a member of the [[Equal Suffrage Society]] of [[Moline, Illinois]], in October 1912.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/341729986/?terms=Bahrenberg "Social and Personal Notes," ''Moline Daily Dispatch,'' October 10, 1912, image 7]</ref> She spoke at the 44th anniversary of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association in October 1912 in [[Galesburg, Illinois]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/15303651/?terms=Bahrenberg "Equal Suffragists Forty-Four Years," ''The Decatur Review,'' September 25, 1912, image 6]</ref> She said that suffrage could not be won by a national political party because it was strictly a matter for the states to decide.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/91648068/?terms=Bahrenberg "Suffragists Rap Party Platforms," ''The Decatur Herald,'' Illinois, October 2, 1912, image 4]</ref> She was a delegate to a convention of the [[National American Woman's Suffrage Association]] in 1913.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/35058208/?terms=Bahrenberg "Suffrage Notes," ''The Inter-Ocean,'' Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1913]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}'

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'@@ -1,1 +1,63 @@ +[[File:Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg,_University_of_Illinois_trustee,_1912.png|thumb|upright|<center>Alexander-Bahrenberg</center>]] +'''Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg''' was a member of the [[University of Illinois]] board of trustees and a Republican civic and political activist. + +==Personal== +She was born as Caroline Thomas in [[Belleville, Illinois]], on March 4, 1861, the daughter of John Thomas of Virginia and Magdalena Von Ave of Switzerland.<ref name=IllinoisDeaths>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2542&h=944286&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe102&_phstart=successSource Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947]</ref><ref name=FindAGrave2>[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=119120175&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe105&_phstart=successSource Find a Grave Index]</ref><ref name=Arcadia>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ONNPTf-RJzcC&pg=PA118&dq=Bahrenberg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHicXN8bbbAhVl64MKHT4NAJw4ChDoAQhBMAU#v=onepage&q=Bahrenberg&f=false Robert C. Fietsam, Judy Belleville, Jack Le Chien, and Robert L. Arndt, ''Belleville 1914-1914,'' Arcadia Press, (get date)]</ref> + +She was graduated from [[Monticello Seminary]], [[Godfrey, Illinois]], in 1880 as class [[valedictorian]],<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16259157/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Vicinity Notes: Monticello," ''Alton Telegraph,'' May 13, 1880, image 8]</ref> at which event she gave an address on "The Differential and Integral Calculus."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/14727392/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Anniversaries," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 9, 1880, image 4]</ref> She also spoke in June 1913 at the 75th anniversary celebration of the founding of the seminary<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16287846/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Seminary Holds Her 75th Anniversary," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 2, 1913, image 4]]</ref> and at a [[class reunion|reunion]] luncheon in June 1915.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16304401/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Graduates 18 in 77th Year," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 8, 1915, image 1]</ref> + +Her first husband was Daniel P. or Henry Alexander, who died in 1887.<ref name=WomanControls/> + +Married to William Bahrenberg, a physician, she lived in [[Belleville, Illinois]].<ref name=IllinoisDeaths/><ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> In 1909 she was living in [[Belvidere, Illinois]].<ref name=WomanControls>"Woman Controls Street Railway," ''Daily East Oregonian,'' November 6, 1909, image 6]</ref> + +She died on November 24, 1929, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and was buried in [[Valhalla Cemetery]] in [[St. Louis County]].<ref name=IllinoisDeaths/> + +==Business activities== + +Upon the 1887 death of her first husband, Mrs. Bahrenberg took over the management of the St. Louis, Belleville & Suburban [[street railway]] system in [[Delhi, Illinois]], a suburb of St. Louis. In an address to the Chicago Women's Club in November 1909 titled "Woman's Ability to Do Man's Work,"<ref name=WomanControls/><ref name=Arcadia/> she said: + +<blockquote>My former husband barely had started the road .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. when his death forced me to take up the work. For five years, I managed every detail, leading in the work of clearing away snow blockades early in the winter mornings.<ref name=WomanControls/></blockquote> + +==Civic activities== + +===University of Illinois=== + +[[File:Illinois_ballot_for_women,_1912.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. Alexander-Bahrenberg is listed in the first column as part of the Republican [[Slate (elections)|slate]] of candidates.<ref name=ballot/>]] +[[File:Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Sketches by St. Louis journalist [[Marguerite Martyn]] of Alexander-Bahrenberg campaigning in 1912]] +Known as Mrs. Carrie A.-Bahrenberg or Carrie Alexander-Bahrenburg, she was a member of the board of trustees of the [[University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana–Champaign#University_of_Illinois|University of Illinois]] from either 1898 or 1900 to 1912.<ref name=Arcadia/><ref name=BellevilleBusiness>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/138950364/?terms=Bahrenberg Marguerite Martyn, "Belleville Business Woman In Hard Fight for State Office," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch,'' October 26, 1912, image 3]</ref><ref name=ballot>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/92519541/?terms=ballot "Sample of Women's Official Ballot to Be Voted On in Macon County, Illinois, Tuesday, November 5, 1912," ''Decatur Herald,'' November 2, 1912, image 7]</ref><ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/43135_b168717_00018?pid=347207202&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1265%26h%3D347207202%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DFRe103%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe103&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=43135_b168717_00017 ''The Illio 1912,'' image 18]</ref> + +In 1912, Illinois women were allowed to cast ballots only for University of Illinois trustees.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/126432721/?terms=University%2Bof%2BIllinois%2Btrustees "To Register Next Month," ''The De Kalb Chronicle,'' Illinois, September 21, image 5]</ref> + +Alexander-Bahrenburg said that she "gladly" gave time to serving on the board, "where the average man with others depending on him possibly could not be so free. It is my belief that this board should always include a woman. The law is lax upon the subject, stating only that a woman 'may' serve. Therefore the woman member should be the one who is willing to fight and hold her ground."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> + +She said she did not work for the other candidates on the Republican ticket because "there is no use in being interested in the offices I am not permitted to vote for."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> + +Alexander-Bahrenberg was noted for her years of "outspoken disagreement" with university President [[Edward J. James]], with "her colleagues on the board, and [with] other partisans of the University."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> + +Nevertheless, she said she held no animosity for James, and she even entertained him and his wife "lavishly" in her home. "But when it comes to business, I know neither friend nor foe," she said.<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> + +She was instrumental in defeating a legislative appropriation for a [[UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine|veterinary sciences department at the university]]. "Since that time," according to one newspaper account, "the university administration and President Abbott of the trustees" worked against her reelection.<ref name=HardFight>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/69119048/?terms=Bahrenberg "Hard Fight Promised," ''The Pantagraph,'' Bloomington, Illinois, April 19, 1912, image 10]</ref> + +In 1912, she faced opposition in the Republican state convention in [[Springfield,Illinois|Springfield]] from Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of [[Joseph M. McCormick|Medill McCormick]], proprietor of the [[Chicago Tribune]].<ref name=HardFight/> + +She was, however, nominated for reelection "despite the combined opposition of the Chicago Women's Club, the Alumni Association and Illini of the University, numbering 5[,]000 students, which endorsed so powerful a candidate as Mrs. Emmons Blaine."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> + +During her campaign, she said: + +<blockquote>I know the faculty does not want me on the board. My endorsement consists chiefly of the votes of the people which have given me the biggest majorities ever attained by a political candidate in Illinois. I think I am the woman for t the position because of unique financial training. I was owner and director of the street railway system of Belleville after the death of my first husband, Dr. Alexander. I took in money by the nickels and spent it by the thousands.<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/></blockquote> + +Alexander-Bahrenberg lost the election.<ref>There is no printed source for the election result, but she was not identified as a board member after 1912.</ref> + +===Other=== +A leader in the Illinois division of the [[Woman's Relief Corps]], the auxiliary of the [[Grand Army of the Republic]] veterans' organization, she was elected national secretary of the corps in 1915.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/15310766/?terms=Bahrenberg "Monticello Woman in W.R.C. Office, ''The Decatur Review,'' October 1, 1915, image 6]</ref> The other candidates were Isabel Worrell Ball of Washington, D.C., Lois Knauff of Ohio and Lue Steward Wardworth of Massachusetts.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/79958022/?terms=Bahrenberg "Campaign for W.R.C. Presidency Lively," ''The Washington Times,'' September 28, 1915, page 4]</ref> + +Mrs. Bahrenberg was a member of the [[Equal Suffrage Society]] of [[Moline, Illinois]], in October 1912.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/341729986/?terms=Bahrenberg "Social and Personal Notes," ''Moline Daily Dispatch,'' October 10, 1912, image 7]</ref> + +She spoke at the 44th anniversary of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association in October 1912 in [[Galesburg, Illinois]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/15303651/?terms=Bahrenberg "Equal Suffragists Forty-Four Years," ''The Decatur Review,'' September 25, 1912, image 6]</ref> She said that suffrage could not be won by a national political party because it was strictly a matter for the states to decide.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/91648068/?terms=Bahrenberg "Suffragists Rap Party Platforms," ''The Decatur Herald,'' Illinois, October 2, 1912, image 4]</ref> + +She was a delegate to a convention of the [[National American Woman's Suffrage Association]] in 1913.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/35058208/?terms=Bahrenberg "Suffrage Notes," ''The Inter-Ocean,'' Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1913]</ref> + +==References== + +{{reflist}} '

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Arndt, ''Belleville 1914-1914,'' Arcadia Press, (get date)]</ref>', 5 => false, 6 => 'She was graduated from [[Monticello Seminary]], [[Godfrey, Illinois]], in 1880 as class [[valedictorian]],<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16259157/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Vicinity Notes: Monticello," ''Alton Telegraph,'' May 13, 1880, image 8]</ref> at which event she gave an address on "The Differential and Integral Calculus."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/14727392/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Anniversaries," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 9, 1880, image 4]</ref> She also spoke in June 1913 at the 75th anniversary celebration of the founding of the seminary<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16287846/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Seminary Holds Her 75th Anniversary," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 2, 1913, image 4]]</ref> and at a [[class reunion|reunion]] luncheon in June 1915.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/16304401/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22 "Monticello Graduates 18 in 77th Year," ''Alton Evening Telegraph,'' June 8, 1915, image 1]</ref>', 7 => false, 8 => 'Her first husband was Daniel P. or Henry Alexander, who died in 1887.<ref name=WomanControls/>', 9 => false, 10 => 'Married to William Bahrenberg, a physician, she lived in [[Belleville, Illinois]].<ref name=IllinoisDeaths/><ref name=BellevilleBusiness/> In 1909 she was living in [[Belvidere, Illinois]].<ref name=WomanControls>"Woman Controls Street Railway," ''Daily East Oregonian,'' November 6, 1909, image 6]</ref>', 11 => false, 12 => 'She died on November 24, 1929, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and was buried in [[Valhalla Cemetery]] in [[St. Louis County]].<ref name=IllinoisDeaths/>', 13 => false, 14 => '==Business activities==', 15 => false, 16 => 'Upon the 1887 death of her first husband, Mrs. Bahrenberg took over the management of the St. Louis, Belleville & Suburban [[street railway]] system in [[Delhi, Illinois]], a suburb of St. Louis. In an address to the Chicago Women's Club in November 1909 titled "Woman's Ability to Do Man's Work,"<ref name=WomanControls/><ref name=Arcadia/> she said:', 17 => false, 18 => '<blockquote>My former husband barely had started the road .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. when his death forced me to take up the work. For five years, I managed every detail, leading in the work of clearing away snow blockades early in the winter mornings.<ref name=WomanControls/></blockquote>', 19 => false, 20 => '==Civic activities==', 21 => false, 22 => '===University of Illinois===', 23 => false, 24 => '[[File:Illinois_ballot_for_women,_1912.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. Alexander-Bahrenberg is listed in the first column as part of the Republican [[Slate (elections)|slate]] of candidates.<ref name=ballot/>]]', 25 => '[[File:Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Sketches by St. Louis journalist [[Marguerite Martyn]] of Alexander-Bahrenberg campaigning in 1912]]', 26 => 'Known as Mrs. Carrie A.-Bahrenberg or Carrie Alexander-Bahrenburg, she was a member of the board of trustees of the [[University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana–Champaign#University_of_Illinois|University of Illinois]] from either 1898 or 1900 to 1912.<ref name=Arcadia/><ref name=BellevilleBusiness>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/138950364/?terms=Bahrenberg Marguerite Martyn, "Belleville Business Woman In Hard Fight for State Office," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch,'' October 26, 1912, image 3]</ref><ref name=ballot>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/92519541/?terms=ballot "Sample of Women's Official Ballot to Be Voted On in Macon County, Illinois, Tuesday, November 5, 1912," ''Decatur Herald,'' November 2, 1912, image 7]</ref><ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/43135_b168717_00018?pid=347207202&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1265%26h%3D347207202%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DFRe103%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FRe103&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=43135_b168717_00017 ''The Illio 1912,'' image 18]</ref>', 27 => false, 28 => 'In 1912, Illinois women were allowed to cast ballots only for University of Illinois trustees.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/126432721/?terms=University%2Bof%2BIllinois%2Btrustees "To Register Next Month," ''The De Kalb Chronicle,'' Illinois, September 21, image 5]</ref>', 29 => false, 30 => 'Alexander-Bahrenburg said that she "gladly" gave time to serving on the board, "where the average man with others depending on him possibly could not be so free. It is my belief that this board should always include a woman. The law is lax upon the subject, stating only that a woman 'may' serve. Therefore the woman member should be the one who is willing to fight and hold her ground."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/>', 31 => false, 32 => 'She said she did not work for the other candidates on the Republican ticket because "there is no use in being interested in the offices I am not permitted to vote for."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/>', 33 => false, 34 => 'Alexander-Bahrenberg was noted for her years of "outspoken disagreement" with university President [[Edward J. James]], with "her colleagues on the board, and [with] other partisans of the University."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/>', 35 => false, 36 => 'Nevertheless, she said she held no animosity for James, and she even entertained him and his wife "lavishly" in her home. "But when it comes to business, I know neither friend nor foe," she said.<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/>', 37 => false, 38 => 'She was instrumental in defeating a legislative appropriation for a [[UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine|veterinary sciences department at the university]]. "Since that time," according to one newspaper account, "the university administration and President Abbott of the trustees" worked against her reelection.<ref name=HardFight>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/69119048/?terms=Bahrenberg "Hard Fight Promised," ''The Pantagraph,'' Bloomington, Illinois, April 19, 1912, image 10]</ref>', 39 => false, 40 => 'In 1912, she faced opposition in the Republican state convention in [[Springfield,Illinois|Springfield]] from Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of [[Joseph M. McCormick|Medill McCormick]], proprietor of the [[Chicago Tribune]].<ref name=HardFight/>', 41 => false, 42 => 'She was, however, nominated for reelection "despite the combined opposition of the Chicago Women's Club, the Alumni Association and Illini of the University, numbering 5[,]000 students, which endorsed so powerful a candidate as Mrs. Emmons Blaine."<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/>', 43 => false, 44 => 'During her campaign, she said:', 45 => false, 46 => '<blockquote>I know the faculty does not want me on the board. My endorsement consists chiefly of the votes of the people which have given me the biggest majorities ever attained by a political candidate in Illinois. I think I am the woman for t the position because of unique financial training. I was owner and director of the street railway system of Belleville after the death of my first husband, Dr. Alexander. I took in money by the nickels and spent it by the thousands.<ref name=BellevilleBusiness/></blockquote>', 47 => false, 48 => 'Alexander-Bahrenberg lost the election.<ref>There is no printed source for the election result, but she was not identified as a board member after 1912.</ref>', 49 => false, 50 => '===Other===', 51 => 'A leader in the Illinois division of the [[Woman's Relief Corps]], the auxiliary of the [[Grand Army of the Republic]] veterans' organization, she was elected national secretary of the corps in 1915.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/15310766/?terms=Bahrenberg "Monticello Woman in W.R.C. Office, ''The Decatur Review,'' October 1, 1915, image 6]</ref> The other candidates were Isabel Worrell Ball of Washington, D.C., Lois Knauff of Ohio and Lue Steward Wardworth of Massachusetts.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/79958022/?terms=Bahrenberg "Campaign for W.R.C. Presidency Lively," ''The Washington Times,'' September 28, 1915, page 4]</ref>', 52 => false, 53 => 'Mrs. Bahrenberg was a member of the [[Equal Suffrage Society]] of [[Moline, Illinois]], in October 1912.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/341729986/?terms=Bahrenberg "Social and Personal Notes," ''Moline Daily Dispatch,'' October 10, 1912, image 7]</ref>', 54 => false, 55 => 'She spoke at the 44th anniversary of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association in October 1912 in [[Galesburg, Illinois]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/15303651/?terms=Bahrenberg "Equal Suffragists Forty-Four Years," ''The Decatur Review,'' September 25, 1912, image 6]</ref> She said that suffrage could not be won by a national political party because it was strictly a matter for the states to decide.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/91648068/?terms=Bahrenberg "Suffragists Rap Party Platforms," ''The Decatur Herald,'' Illinois, October 2, 1912, image 4]</ref>', 56 => false, 57 => 'She was a delegate to a convention of the [[National American Woman's Suffrage Association]] in 1913.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/35058208/?terms=Bahrenberg "Suffrage Notes," ''The Inter-Ocean,'' Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1913]</ref>', 58 => false, 59 => '==References==', 60 => false, 61 => '{{reflist}}' ]

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'<div class="mw-parser-output"><div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:172px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg,_University_of_Illinois_trustee,_1912.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg%2C_University_of_Illinois_trustee%2C_1912.png/170px-Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg%2C_University_of_Illinois_trustee%2C_1912.png" width="170" height="230" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg%2C_University_of_Illinois_trustee%2C_1912.png/255px-Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg%2C_University_of_Illinois_trustee%2C_1912.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg%2C_University_of_Illinois_trustee%2C_1912.png/340px-Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg%2C_University_of_Illinois_trustee%2C_1912.png 2x" data-file-width="692" data-file-height="938" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Carrie_A.-Bahrenberg,_University_of_Illinois_trustee,_1912.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> <center>Alexander-Bahrenberg</center> </div> </div> </div> <p><b>Carrie Thomas Alexander-Bahrenberg</b> was a member of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois">University of Illinois</a> board of trustees and a Republican civic and political activist.</p> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Personal"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Personal</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Business_activities"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Business activities</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Civic_activities"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Civic activities</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#University_of_Illinois"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">University of Illinois</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Other"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Other</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal">Personal</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Thomas_Alexander-Bahrenberg&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Personal">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>She was born as Caroline Thomas in <a href="/wiki/Belleville,_Illinois" title="Belleville, Illinois">Belleville, Illinois</a>, on March 4, 1861, the daughter of John Thomas of Virginia and Magdalena Von Ave of Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-IllinoisDeaths_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IllinoisDeaths-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FindAGrave2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FindAGrave2-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Arcadia_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arcadia-3">[3]</a></sup></p> <p>She was graduated from <a href="/wiki/Monticello_Seminary" title="Monticello Seminary">Monticello Seminary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Godfrey,_Illinois" title="Godfrey, Illinois">Godfrey, Illinois</a>, in 1880 as class <a href="/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian">valedictorian</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> at which event she gave an address on "The Differential and Integral Calculus."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> She also spoke in June 1913 at the 75th anniversary celebration of the founding of the seminary<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> and at a <a href="/wiki/Class_reunion" title="Class reunion">reunion</a> luncheon in June 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup></p> <p>Her first husband was Daniel P. or Henry Alexander, who died in 1887.<sup id="cite_ref-WomanControls_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WomanControls-8">[8]</a></sup></p> <p>Married to William Bahrenberg, a physician, she lived in <a href="/wiki/Belleville,_Illinois" title="Belleville, Illinois">Belleville, Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IllinoisDeaths_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IllinoisDeaths-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup> In 1909 she was living in <a href="/wiki/Belvidere,_Illinois" title="Belvidere, Illinois">Belvidere, Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WomanControls_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WomanControls-8">[8]</a></sup></p> <p>She died on November 24, 1929, in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>, and was buried in <a href="/wiki/Valhalla_Cemetery" class="mw-redirect" title="Valhalla Cemetery">Valhalla Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_County" class="mw-disambig" title="St. Louis County">St. Louis County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IllinoisDeaths_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IllinoisDeaths-1">[1]</a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Business_activities">Business activities</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Thomas_Alexander-Bahrenberg&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Business activities">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Upon the 1887 death of her first husband, Mrs. Bahrenberg took over the management of the St. Louis, Belleville &amp; Suburban <a href="/wiki/Street_railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Street railway">street railway</a> system in <a href="/wiki/Delhi,_Illinois" title="Delhi, Illinois">Delhi, Illinois</a>, a suburb of St. Louis. In an address to the Chicago Women's Club in November 1909 titled "Woman's Ability to Do Man's Work,"<sup id="cite_ref-WomanControls_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WomanControls-8">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Arcadia_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arcadia-3">[3]</a></sup> she said:</p> <blockquote> <p>My former husband barely had started the road .&#160;.&#160;. when his death forced me to take up the work. For five years, I managed every detail, leading in the work of clearing away snow blockades early in the winter mornings.<sup id="cite_ref-WomanControls_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WomanControls-8">[8]</a></sup></p> </blockquote> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Civic_activities">Civic activities</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Thomas_Alexander-Bahrenberg&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Civic activities">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="University_of_Illinois">University of Illinois</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Thomas_Alexander-Bahrenberg&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: University of Illinois">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Illinois_ballot_for_women,_1912.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Illinois_ballot_for_women%2C_1912.jpg/300px-Illinois_ballot_for_women%2C_1912.jpg" width="300" height="62" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Illinois_ballot_for_women%2C_1912.jpg/450px-Illinois_ballot_for_women%2C_1912.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Illinois_ballot_for_women%2C_1912.jpg/600px-Illinois_ballot_for_women%2C_1912.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3601" data-file-height="740" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Illinois_ballot_for_women,_1912.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Newspaper illustration of an Illinois ballot for women, who in 1912 were allowed to vote only for trustees of the state university. Alexander-Bahrenberg is listed in the first column as part of the Republican <a href="/wiki/Slate_(elections)" title="Slate (elections)">slate</a> of candidates.<sup id="cite_ref-ballot_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ballot-10">[10]</a></sup></div> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg/300px-Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg" width="300" height="178" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg/450px-Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg/600px-Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1780" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Sketches_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_Carrie_Alexander-Bahrenburg_campaigning_in_1912.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div> Sketches by St. Louis journalist <a href="/wiki/Marguerite_Martyn" title="Marguerite Martyn">Marguerite Martyn</a> of Alexander-Bahrenberg campaigning in 1912</div> </div> </div> <p>Known as Mrs. Carrie A.-Bahrenberg or Carrie Alexander-Bahrenburg, she was a member of the board of trustees of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana%E2%80%93Champaign#University_of_Illinois" title="University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign">University of Illinois</a> from either 1898 or 1900 to 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-Arcadia_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arcadia-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ballot_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ballot-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup></p> <p>In 1912, Illinois women were allowed to cast ballots only for University of Illinois trustees.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup></p> <p>Alexander-Bahrenburg said that she "gladly" gave time to serving on the board, "where the average man with others depending on him possibly could not be so free. It is my belief that this board should always include a woman. The law is lax upon the subject, stating only that a woman 'may' serve. Therefore the woman member should be the one who is willing to fight and hold her ground."<sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup></p> <p>She said she did not work for the other candidates on the Republican ticket because "there is no use in being interested in the offices I am not permitted to vote for."<sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup></p> <p>Alexander-Bahrenberg was noted for her years of "outspoken disagreement" with university President <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_J._James&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward J. James (page does not exist)">Edward J. James</a>, with "her colleagues on the board, and [with] other partisans of the University."<sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup></p> <p>Nevertheless, she said she held no animosity for James, and she even entertained him and his wife "lavishly" in her home. "But when it comes to business, I know neither friend nor foe," she said.<sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup></p> <p>She was instrumental in defeating a legislative appropriation for a <a href="/wiki/UIUC_College_of_Veterinary_Medicine" title="UIUC College of Veterinary Medicine">veterinary sciences department at the university</a>. "Since that time," according to one newspaper account, "the university administration and President Abbott of the trustees" worked against her reelection.<sup id="cite_ref-HardFight_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HardFight-13">[13]</a></sup></p> <p>In 1912, she faced opposition in the Republican state convention in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Springfield,Illinois&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Springfield,Illinois (page does not exist)">Springfield</a> from Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._McCormick" title="Joseph M. McCormick">Medill McCormick</a>, proprietor of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HardFight_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HardFight-13">[13]</a></sup></p> <p>She was, however, nominated for reelection "despite the combined opposition of the Chicago Women's Club, the Alumni Association and Illini of the University, numbering 5[,]000 students, which endorsed so powerful a candidate as Mrs. Emmons Blaine."<sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup></p> <p>During her campaign, she said:</p> <blockquote> <p>I know the faculty does not want me on the board. My endorsement consists chiefly of the votes of the people which have given me the biggest majorities ever attained by a political candidate in Illinois. I think I am the woman for t the position because of unique financial training. I was owner and director of the street railway system of Belleville after the death of my first husband, Dr. Alexander. I took in money by the nickels and spent it by the thousands.<sup id="cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9">[9]</a></sup></p> </blockquote> <p>Alexander-Bahrenberg lost the election.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup></p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Other">Other</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Thomas_Alexander-Bahrenberg&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Other">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>A leader in the Illinois division of the <a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Relief_Corps" title="Woman's Relief Corps">Woman's Relief Corps</a>, the auxiliary of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic" title="Grand Army of the Republic">Grand Army of the Republic</a> veterans' organization, she was elected national secretary of the corps in 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> The other candidates were Isabel Worrell Ball of Washington, D.C., Lois Knauff of Ohio and Lue Steward Wardworth of Massachusetts.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup></p> <p>Mrs. Bahrenberg was a member of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Equal_Suffrage_Society&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Equal Suffrage Society (page does not exist)">Equal Suffrage Society</a> of <a href="/wiki/Moline,_Illinois" title="Moline, Illinois">Moline, Illinois</a>, in October 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup></p> <p>She spoke at the 44th anniversary of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association in October 1912 in <a href="/wiki/Galesburg,_Illinois" title="Galesburg, Illinois">Galesburg, Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> She said that suffrage could not be won by a national political party because it was strictly a matter for the states to decide.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup></p> <p>She was a delegate to a convention of the <a href="/wiki/National_American_Woman%27s_Suffrage_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="National American Woman's Suffrage Association">National American Woman's Suffrage Association</a> in 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Thomas_Alexander-Bahrenberg&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="reflist" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-IllinoisDeaths-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-IllinoisDeaths_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IllinoisDeaths_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IllinoisDeaths_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&amp;dbid=2542&amp;h=944286&amp;tid=&amp;pid=&amp;usePUB=true&amp;_phsrc=FRe102&amp;_phstart=successSource">Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-FindAGrave2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FindAGrave2_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&amp;dbid=60525&amp;h=119120175&amp;tid=&amp;pid=&amp;usePUB=true&amp;_phsrc=FRe105&amp;_phstart=successSource">Find a Grave Index</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-Arcadia-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Arcadia_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Arcadia_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Arcadia_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ONNPTf-RJzcC&amp;pg=PA118&amp;dq=Bahrenberg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjHicXN8bbbAhVl64MKHT4NAJw4ChDoAQhBMAU#v=onepage&amp;q=Bahrenberg&amp;f=false">Robert C. Fietsam, Judy Belleville, Jack Le Chien, and Robert L. Arndt, <i>Belleville 1914-1914,</i> Arcadia Press, (get date)</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/16259157/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22">"Vicinity Notes: Monticello," <i>Alton Telegraph,</i> May 13, 1880, image 8</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/14727392/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22">"Monticello Anniversaries," <i>Alton Evening Telegraph,</i> June 9, 1880, image 4</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/16287846/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22">"Monticello Seminary Holds Her 75th Anniversary," <i>Alton Evening Telegraph,</i> June 2, 1913, image 4</a>]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/16304401/?terms=%22Caroline%2BThomas%22">"Monticello Graduates 18 in 77th Year," <i>Alton Evening Telegraph,</i> June 8, 1915, image 1</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-WomanControls-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WomanControls_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-WomanControls_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-WomanControls_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-WomanControls_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Woman Controls Street Railway," <i>Daily East Oregonian,</i> November 6, 1909, image 6]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-BellevilleBusiness-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BellevilleBusiness_9-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/138950364/?terms=Bahrenberg">Marguerite Martyn, "Belleville Business Woman In Hard Fight for State Office," <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch,</i> October 26, 1912, image 3</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-ballot-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ballot_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ballot_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/92519541/?terms=ballot">"Sample of Women's Official Ballot to Be Voted On in Macon County, Illinois, Tuesday, November 5, 1912," <i>Decatur Herald,</i> November 2, 1912, image 7</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/43135_b168717_00018?pid=347207202&amp;backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1265%26h%3D347207202%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DFRe103%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&amp;treeid=&amp;personid=&amp;hintid=&amp;usePUB=true&amp;_phsrc=FRe103&amp;_phstart=successSource&amp;usePUBJs=true#?imageId=43135_b168717_00017"><i>The Illio 1912,</i> image 18</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/126432721/?terms=University%2Bof%2BIllinois%2Btrustees">"To Register Next Month," <i>The De Kalb Chronicle,</i> Illinois, September 21, image 5</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-HardFight-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HardFight_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HardFight_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/69119048/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Hard Fight Promised," <i>The Pantagraph,</i> Bloomington, Illinois, April 19, 1912, image 10</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There is no printed source for the election result, but she was not identified as a board member after 1912.</span></li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/15310766/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Monticello Woman in W.R.C. Office, <i>The Decatur Review,</i> October 1, 1915, image 6</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/79958022/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Campaign for W.R.C. Presidency Lively," <i>The Washington Times,</i> September 28, 1915, page 4</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/341729986/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Social and Personal Notes," <i>Moline Daily Dispatch,</i> October 10, 1912, image 7</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/15303651/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Equal Suffragists Forty-Four Years," <i>The Decatur Review,</i> September 25, 1912, image 6</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/91648068/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Suffragists Rap Party Platforms," <i>The Decatur Herald,</i> Illinois, October 2, 1912, image 4</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/35058208/?terms=Bahrenberg">"Suffrage Notes," <i>The Inter-Ocean,</i> Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1913</a></span></li> </ol> </div> </div> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw1313 Cached time: 20180603162222 Cache expiry: 1900800 Dynamic content: false CPU time usage: 0.080 seconds Real time usage: 0.092 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 398/1000000 Preprocessor generated node count: 0/1500000 Post‐expand include size: 386/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 98/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 7/40 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 12511/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.003/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 522 KB/50 MB --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 32.872 1 Template:Reflist 100.00% 32.872 1 -total 12.94% 4.255 1 Template:Main_other --> </div>'

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