Anna Blount

[11] In the Chicago Citizens Committee for Birth Control was active Anna Blount, member of the CWC, who in the twenties emphasized the necessity of increasing the number of women among physicians.

She introduced herself here as professionally prepared for counseling in the area of birth control, as well as a woman who shared these experiences with other women.

[18] Blount did not believe that people who were unhappy with one another should stay married, and proposed that obtaining a divorce should be made easier in the courts.

[2] Concerning Dr. Blount's involvement in the woman's suffrage movement, The Gentle Force says, Dr. Anna Blount and Grace Wilbur Trout ... achieved state-wide reputations as leaders for the cause, and both served on the Municipal Suffrage Commission in Illinois, as did Club members Grace Hall Hemingway and Anna Lloyd Wright.

According to the local paper, this Association was founded by 'some of the most prominent women in Illinois, who have made an imperishable record for their service in the cause of woman suffrage.

In The Young Hemingway Michael Reynolds says, "In 1907, to the amusement of male Oak Parkers, the Illinois Equal Suffrage convention was held at Scoville Institute, where Dr. Anna Blount, a local woman, was the wittiest and most persuasive voice."

[28] Concerning Blount's high reputation, at pages 106-107 Reynolds states, In those days in Oak Park, wives were known in the newspaper by their husbands' names: Mrs. John Farson, Mrs. William Barton.

[29] They lived in Oak Park, IL, and had three children: Walter Putnam,[30] Earl Ellsworth, and Ruth Amelia.

Anna Blount herself let me in,' Wright recalled, 'and proudly led me to the room where a little white bundle lay.

Blount in a suffrage rally in Illinois .