Sarah Platt-Decker

[1] Platt-Decker married a third time in 1899,[2] to Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker (1839-1903), a Denver judge who died in 1903.

In her four years as president, she gave hundreds of speeches persuading members to take up the cause of women's suffrage.

[1] Platt-Decker died in San Francisco in 1912 after a bout of kidney disease while attending the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention.

[1] An obituary in a Denver newspaper described her as "Colorado's foremost woman citizen and the real leader of the suffrage movement in the United States".

[1] Another wrote that she deserved "a great share of the credit that Colorado became the first state in the Union to realize the political rights of women".

Petition to J. C. Knox from the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women for an investigation into the industrial conditions of women on General Federation of Women's Clubs letterhead with Sarah Platt Decker as President