Rosa Miller Avery
Rosa Miller Avery (pen name, Sue Smith and unknown male pseudonyms; May 21, 1830 – November 9, 1894) was an American abolitionist, political reformer, second-generation suffragist, and writer.

Avery's childhood home was a noted "underground ralroad station". As an adult, while living in Ashtabula, Ohio, she organized the first anti-slavery society of that time in that section of the United States. During the Civil War, she wrote constantly for the various papers and journals of that day on the union and emancipation, being obliged to use a male signature in order to gain attention. Many of her articles and responses to the opponents of franchise for women appeared in the "Chicago Inter-Ocean". Her pen-name signed to her later writings was "Sue Smith.” These were on social questions and things helpful to young people. After removing to Chicago, she took up the work of social purity and equal suffrage, writing many articles for the Chicago press on these subjects.
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