Emma Bugbee
Emma Bugbee (May 19, 1888 – October 6, 1981) was an American suffragist and journalist. She participated in and reported on the 1912 Suffrage Hike from New York City to Albany, New York. Biography She was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She later moved to New York. She graduated from Barnard College in 1909 and taught Greek courses at a high school in Methuen, Massachusetts. She became a reporter for the New York Tribune, later the New York Herald Tribune. She was the first woman report to be hired for the Heralds city room. In 1914, she covered the Suffrage hike from Manhattan to Albany, New York. In 1976, she moved to Warwick, Rhode Island. She died on October 6, 1981, in Warwick, Rhode Island. See also List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists Timeline of women's suffrage Timeline of women's rights (other than voting) References 1888 births 1981 deaths 20th-century American historians American women journalists Barnard College alumni People from Methuen, Massachusetts American political writers Warwick, Rhode Island American suffragists American women's rights activists People from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania American women historians 20th-century American women writers Historians from Pennsylvania Historians from Massachusetts