Lida Calvert Obenchain (“Eliza Calvert Hall”), suffragist, press superintendent of Ky. Equal Rights Assn., poet, author. Her most famous
story, “Sally Ann’s Experience” (1898), protested women’s inequality. President
Roosevelt praised her first collection of stories, Aunt Jane of Kentucky(1907). Over
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Royalties helped purchase home at 1353 Chestnut St. The Land of Long Ago(1909), To Love and to Cherish (1911) and Clover and Blue Grass (1916) followed. For A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets (1912), she bought coverlets from
wagons of tobacco farmers on Chestnut St. Her books reached at least one million readers. Over.