Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye

Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye (* 1876, † April 18, 1921 in East River, New York) was an American suffragist and pacifist. She was president of the Milwaukee Women's Peace Society, and his second wife with the forestry scientists and environmentalists Benton MacKaye.

Life

She studied at Columbia University and stood in front of the Women's Peace Society in New York City. 1896 to 1899 she was married to the doctor Guerney Stubbs, who died in 1899. Several of you mentioned actions, then a 1912 carried out peace march, received nationwide interest. She became famous by calling, women should remain unmarried and has no children give birth to a means is found to exclude war. In 1914 she participated in a central demonstration for women's suffrage in Washington. Jessie Stubbs took his own life by drowning in the East River.

Benton MacKaye was during the aftermath of an architect friend, Charles Whitaker, invited to relax on his farm in Mount Olive. During this time he formulated the basic idea of ​​the Appalachian Trail, one of the longest long-distance hiking trails in the U.S. and worldwide.