Edith Mary Ainge

Released
Date of birth:10. 09. 1873
Date of death:25. 10. 1948
Age:75† Deceased
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 30 Days
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Edith Mary Ainge

Biography

Edith Mary Ainge was an English-born Jamestown, NY suffragist who served as treasurer of the National Woman's Party. First arrested September 4, 1917 — the "March of Draftees" day — for unfurling a banner reading "How Long Must Woman Be Denied a Voice in a Government Which is Conscripting Their Sons." Arrested approximately five times between September 1917 and January 1919.

Stevens records five actual jail sentences: September 1917, August 1918 for the Lafayette Square meeting, and three short January 1919 watchfire stays in the District Jail. Only the September episode was previously a case row. The August sentence was fifteen days nominally; the three January durations are unspecified. No full fifteen-day service, exact date or additional counter is inferred.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 354.

Cases

Occoquan Workhouse / DC Jail
Charges: Obstructing sidewalk traffic (Silent Sentinels picketing of the Wilson White House, 1917–1919)
Arrested: Sep 3, 1917
Incarcerated: Sep 4, 1917
Released: November 1917
Sentence: Sixty days at Occoquan Workhouse for the September 1917 suffrage protest.
Judge: Hon. Alexander R. Mullowney (DC Police Court)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Virginia
Security: Multi
Charges: August 1918 Lafayette Square suffrage meeting
Sentence: Fifteen-day nominal sentence; actual imprisonment is identified, but full-term service and exact endpoints remain unresolved.
Convicted: Yes
Charges: January 1919 suffrage watchfire demonstration
Sentence: One of three separate short January 1919 District Jail stays identified by Stevens. The duration, exact dates and sequence of the stays are unresolved.
Convicted: Yes
Charges: January 1919 suffrage watchfire demonstration
Sentence: One of three separate short January 1919 District Jail stays identified by Stevens. The duration, exact dates and sequence of the stays are unresolved.
Convicted: Yes
Charges: January 1919 suffrage watchfire demonstration
Sentence: One of three separate short January 1919 District Jail stays identified by Stevens. The duration, exact dates and sequence of the stays are unresolved.
Convicted: Yes

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