mar 31, 1852 - Mathilde Anneke launches a newspaper called Woman's Times

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To many of her contemporaries in Wisconsin, Mathilde Anneke (1817-1884) symbolized the "Forty-eighters," who moved here from Germany in the mid-19th century. A social activist, feminist, journalist, and educator, Anneke founded the first feminist newspaper in the United States in Milwaukee, earning, in the process, the harsh rebuke of male printers who organized against her. Anneke was one of the leading feminists who collaborated closely with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was an eloquent speaker at the national level and lobbied in Washington for women's rights. In 1869 she helped found the Wisconsin Suffrage Association, which she personally represented at conventions of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. Hoping to pass her democratic ideals on to the next generation, she founded a school for girls in Milwaukee, which she ran until her death on November 25, 1884 at the age of 67. She is buried in Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery.

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