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Marilla M. Ricker (née Young) was born in New Hampshire in 1840.!

Marilla Marks Ricker (née Young) was born in New Durham, New Hampshire in 1840.

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Marilla M. Ricker (née Young) was born in New Hampshire in 1840.

Marilla Ricker was an influential suffragist and pioneering woman lawyer.

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Ricker, Marilla (–)

American lawyer and suffragist. Name variations: Marilla Young Ricker. Born Marilla Marks Young in New Durham, New Hampshire, on March 18, ; died on November 12, in Dover, New Hampshire; daughter of Jonathan Young and Hannah (Stevens) Young; attended Colby Academy in New London, New Hampshire; married John Ricker (a farmer), on May 19, (died ); no children.

Was the first woman to have a vote officially acknowledged, although not counted (); was the first woman appointed U.S.

commissioner in the District of Columbia (); dubbed the "Prisoner's Friend" by area newspapers because of her legal work on behalf of prisoners (s).

At a time when women were expected to remain at home to care for their families, Marilla Ricker sought the right to vote for women, and she spent her life pursuing legal rights and political equality for the underprivileged.

Her parents, Jonathan and Hannah Young , raised their four children to be freethinkers, without the gender prej