Bridge P05006 (9KE) on Schoosett Street in the town of Pembroke shall be designated and known as the Judith Winsor Smith Memorial Bridge, in honor of Ms. Judith Winsor Smith, a pioneering women's suffrage activist, social reformer, and abolitionist who lived in the town of Pembroke.
Ms. Winsor Smith (née McLauthlin) was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, when she voted for the first time at the age of 99. She was a founder and the first president of one of the first women's clubs in Massachusetts. She was born in Marshfield and moved to Duxbury as a young woman to take a teaching job. She married a shipbuilder in 1841 and the couple had six children. The Smiths spent their early married life in Pembroke and later moved to East Boston. Smith died on December 12, 1921, at the age of 100.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain suitable markers bearing this designation in compliance with the standards of the department.
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