{"id":4121,"date":"2018-04-02T22:29:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2018-04-02T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:29:06","slug":"leroy-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage-in-leroy-commemorated-with-dedication-of-historic-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/leroy-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage-in-leroy-commemorated-with-dedication-of-historic-marker\/","title":{"rendered":"LEROY\/100th anniversary of women&#8217;s suffrage in LeRoy commemorated with dedication of historic marker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ddt5Erl90qw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A commemoration for the 100th anniversary of women&#8217;s suffrage in LeRoy was held on Monday afternoon with the dedication of a historic marker at the Village Hall at 3 West Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly 100 years ago, on Apr. 2, 1918, ninety-one year old Delia Phillips became the first woman in LeRoy to cast a ballot in an election. Only five months earlier, the men of New York State had voted in favor of women&#8217;s suffrage. And although the amendment had been defeated in LeRoy by 38 votes, Delia and other women in LeRoy were prepared to exercise their right in the local village board election.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, Lynne Belluscio, Village Historian, along with County Legislator Shelley Stein, Assemblyman Steve Hawley, local politicians, a representative from the League of Women Voters and Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, who is NYS Women&#8217;s Suffrage Commission Chair, spoke to a packed house at the Village Hall West Main street where the historic marker for Delia Phillips was erected.<\/p>\n<p>Guests were allowed to vote in an old style voting machine for their favorite flavor of Jell-O and listen to the Rochester Raging Grannies belt out a few tunes about the suffrage movement.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/leroy-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage-in-leroy-commemorated-with-dedication-of-historic-marker\/still\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/still.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"still\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/still.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4123\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/still.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/still.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/still.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/still.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commemoration for the 100th anniversary of women&#8217;s suffrage in LeRoy was held on Monday afternoon with the dedication of a historic marker at the Village Hall at 3 West Main Street. Exactly 100 years ago, on Apr. 2, 1918, ninety-one year old Delia Phillips became the first woman in \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/leroy-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage-in-leroy-commemorated-with-dedication-of-historic-marker\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,1],"tags":[907,908],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leroy","category-uncategorized","tag-delia-phillips","tag-womens-suffrage-movement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-14t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19554,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2020\/09\/19\/genesee-county-vigil-held-in-leroy-for-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":4121,"position":0},"title":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Vigil held in LeRoy for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg","author":"aka","date":"September 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mFPBfGK6WY0 Communities throughout the country held a vigil for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday evening at 8:00p.m. around local courthouses. 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