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Bill H.3790
The intersection of Congress Street and Washington Street, on Route 53 and Route 14, on the northwest corner of the intersection, at 749 Washington Street in the town of Pembroke, shall be designated and known as the Lavina A. Hatch Corner, in honor of Lavina A. Hatch, a founding member and secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain suitable markers bearing the designation in compliance with the standards of the department.
Lavina A. Hatch was born on May 20, 1836, in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and died on March 20, 1903, at the age of sixty-six. She was an animal rights activist, a suffragist, and an active volunteer in various organizations. She was a founding member and secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts and kept records of the Boston Political Class, which was an auxiliary organization. She attended Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, and received additional education at Hanover Academy in Hanover, and Partridge Academy in Duxbury. She was employed as a schoolmistress in the local towns, where she was remembered as a teacher who not only disapproved of corporal punishment but succeeded in controlling even the unruliest students. She gave up teaching to care for her brother's children at the death of their mother, later adopting her niece and nephew. Hatch also cared for an invalid mother at the family home and served as postmistress in East Pembroke in the early 1870s. Lavina Hatch was an advocate for women's rights during the late 19th century. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony, a prominent American women's rights activist, on a chapter for the fourth volume of the History of Woman Suffrage. The two also collaborated on writing on the work of the Massachusetts National Association.
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