2006 Peabody women who are builders of community and dreams are the
Peabody Chamber of Commerce's
Mary Upton Ferrin Award Winners

Builders of Community and Dreams Project

Mary Upton Ferrin
1810-1881

Peabody Chamber of Commerce

Peabody, Massachusetts

Women's History Month in Peabody: A Retrospective

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"The first change in the tyrannous laws of Massachusetts was really due to the work of this one woman,
MARY UPTON FERRIN,
who for six years, after her own quaint method, poured the hot shot of her earnest conviction of woman's wrongs into the Legislature.  In circulating petitions, she traveled six hundred miles, two-thirds of this distance on foot.  Much money was expended besides her time and travel, and her name should be remembered as that of one of the brave pioneers in this work."

- History of Woman Suffrage,
Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al.

Peabody's Women Builders of Communities and Dreams Display
at the Cullen Memorial Library, Higgins Middle School, April 2006

"Award to us our proper station in society; abolish all unjust laws in regard to us; withhold from us no longer our natural rights as human beings, children of one Parent, members of the same family... As husbands and son, as fathers and brothers, show to the world that you are not only manly, but humane; that you know how to pity as well as to protect; which will reflect honor, not only to your head, but to your heart, and future generations will revere your memory.  All that we ask, is what justly belongs to us; we ask it not only as a favor, but as a right." - Memorial of the Female Signers of the Several Petitions of Henry A. Hardy and Others, Presented March 1, 1849 to the "Gentleman of the Senate and House of Representatives" by Mary Upton Ferrin.