Ethel Edgerton Hurd (1845–1929) was a physician, a social reformer and a leader in the woman's suffrage movement in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
[1] Her father, Solomon Everest Edgerton (born 1818 in Essex County, New York) had moved to Galesburg in 1836 and, in 1942, married Martha L. Belding.
[3][7] She went into partnership with her daughter, Annah, working from an office in the Pillsbury building at 602 2nd Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She stated, "Forget Shakespeare, Browning and Japan and take up the more important subject of the physical and mental welfare of the human race".
It was the largest suffrage group in the Minneapolis area and the longest-lived woman's club that focused on equal rights and social reform.
[4][3][12][13] Hurd said of the passage of the amendment, "It is a great satisfaction to live to see the end of so tremendous an undertaking.
"[5] Hurd was a member of the executive board of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA) from 1898 to 1919, with the exception of one year.
[17][12] Hurd was named posthumously to the national roll of honor of the League of Women Voters in 1929.