Lydia Bell Moscrip Papers
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Biographical Note
There is little biographical information available for Lydia Bell De Lany Moscrip (dates unknown). Her last name was spelled variously as Moscrip, Moscript, and Moscritz, She is addressed in some correspondence as "Bell." According to U.S. census records, Lydia Bell De Lany was married to Charles H. Moscrip in Keokuk, Lee Co., Iowa. In 1900 they were residing in Rochester, New York, and they lived in Galen, New York, circa 1920. They had a son, Amos D., and a daughter, Virginia (Jennie). Lydia Moscrip was one of the original members of the Suffrage Club founded in Clyde, New York in 1914, serving as vice president. She was also a member of the Women's Liberty Loan Committee in 1917 and the American Red Cross from 1918 to 1920. |