Ida Husted Harper

Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) was an American journalist and suffragist. Born in Indiana, she wrote for Terre Haute and Indianapolis newspapers under a man's name before becoming a columnist in her own right, and after the death of her marriage she moved to the center of the suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony chose her as official biographer, and the three volumes of The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony appeared between 1898 and 1908. She also wrote the fifth and sixth volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage and directed press work for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.