Elizabeth Lowe Watson

She served as president of the California Equal Suffrage Association and directed the work which won the ballot for women of the state.

[4] Her father was of Teutonic descent, born in New York City, and her grandfather, of the Knickerbocker type, had large landed possessions in "Old Manhattan Town."

[5] Her parents soon moved to Leon, New York where Elizabeth received a common school education and early became an inspirational speaker on liberal religious lines, anti-slavery, temperance, peace, and women's rights.

[4] At fourteen, her public ministry began, attracting great crowds of people to hear her discussion upon religion and social ethics.

From the 1890s, for seven or eight years, she lectured nearly every Sunday in San Francisco at the Metropolitan Temple, out of which grew the Religio Philosophical Society, with Watson as it pastor.

[8] She served as President of the California Equal Suffrage Association in 1910–1912, directing the work which won the ballot for women of the state.

[4] She died in Santa Clara County, October 7, 1927, after an illness of two months,[2] survived by two brothers, Eugene and Alvin.