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Caroline Lexow Babcock is on the right, with another suffragist. A native of South Nyack, Caroline was known throughout New York State for her efforts in organizing women.

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Caroline Lexow Babcock sits on a porch of a house that has a tree-filled yard. She is sitting in a straight chair and is wearing a skirt and cardigan. The sweater has large buttons and is embroidered across the yoke. Mrs. Babcock was one of the…

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Western Union delivered this message to Caroline Lexow Babcock at 238 High Avenue in Nyack: "To honor the cause I carried the signatures and the president's message I vote for suffrafe (sic) election day. P. W. Babcock." Later, Caroline wrote beneath…

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Caroline Lexow, in 1914, when she was serving as field secretary of the Women's Political Union.

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This large house at 298 Piermont Avenue in South Nyack was the home of the Clarence and Katherine Ferris Lexow family. Several of the children were born here. The lower story was stone, the second shingled in part and half-timbered in part. There is…

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Caroline Lexow (later Babcock) was seven or eight years old when she posed for this picture. She is wearing a stylish long coat with velvet collarand lapels and ankle high buttoned boots. Her hands on tucked into a fur muff and her large hat is…

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Katharine Ferris was the daughter of Warren and Jeanne Ferris of New York City. Ferris Lane in Upper Grand View is named for the family who had real estate holdings in Rockland County. Katharine married Clarence Lexow in 1881. They moved to South…

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A bearded Clarence Lexow faces the artist. The son of a German immigrant, he became a lawyer and Republican State Senator. This is a photo of a lithograph.

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Five women stand in front of a house in 1915. Their common cause was voting rights for women. In the center is Caroline Lexow, one of Rockland County's leaders in the the suffrage movement.

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As field secretary of the Women's Political Union, Caroline Lexow Babcock traveled from Albany to Buffalo and along the Southern Tier to organize units in communities where the New York State Woman Suffrage Association had not yet organized. The…
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