Edna Buckman Kearns in her Rockville Centre, NY home.
Article about Edna that appeared in a Long Island paper.
Edna Buckman Kearns was born December 25, 1882, the daughter of Charles Harper Buckman and May Phipps Begley. They had two children, Edna, and Thomas Smith Buckman, born 1886. Edna was raised in the Philadelphia area.
Her family history: Parents to grandparents. Great grandparents to great-great grandparents. Edna Buckman Kearns was a ninth generation American through her Buckman family side.
Edna married Wilmer R. Kearns on June 8, 1904. They moved to New York City where Wilmer had business with his brother’s automobile business, the Kearns Motor Car Company. New York City was bustling with new ideas and activists who advocated a wide range of reforms and revolutionary ideas. Edna worked with the suffrage movement and became active in the state campaign as well as the national campaign with Alice Paul.
An award-winning story about Edna.
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There’s so much written about the leaders at the top, and relatively little about the women who marched in those parades, sold newspapers on the streets, planned and attended meetings. To attach a name and face to these women, which is what you’re doing with Edna, is a way to make a bridge and connection that lasts.
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There’s something truly special in this site. Thank you for such hard work.
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Of all the searches I did, couldn’t find anything as intriguing as your suffrage wagon blog.
I’m learning as I go along. Keep the stories coming. I love it!
When will grandmother’s wagon be in exhibit again?
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I am doing research about my ancestry – John A Kearns (my great-grandmother Sadie Catherman’s sister Effie’s husband) and John P Kearns from Beavertown – can you shed any light on any relationship to Wilmer Kearns? I know that they made Kearns automobiles in Beaver Springs aka Adamsburg aka Beavertown. Thank you for any information that you can give me. Candy Tame Landisville, Pa