CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Abby Crawford Milton helped turn the fight for women’s suffrage into a movement that would change American history.
While she may not have been born in Chattanooga, Abby Crawford Milton emerged as a determined leader in the fight for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century and is the focus for this week’s woman of Chattanooga’s past.
Abby Crawford Milton was born on February 6, 1881, in Milledgeville, Georgia, to newspaper publisher Charles Peter Crawford and Anna Ripley Orme…