Mary Osborn Douthit

Mary Osborn Douthit (1850–1908) was an early white settler of the Oregon country, a teacher, a prominent advocate of woman suffrage, and editor of the book The Souvenir of Western Women, published to coincide with the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905.

[1] Her parents were James Harrison and Lueza Osborn Douthit.

[2] She was killed when struck by a streetcar in downtown Portland in 1908; she had been living in Portland for 15 years.

[3] According to fellow suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, Douthit's untimely death cut short a literary career on the cusp of success.

[4] Her book had brief, positive mentions in the Oregon Historical Quarterly[5] and in the Pacific Monthly.