IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES OTHER STATE OFFICERS ANNA B. LAWTHER, DUBUQUE. -Member of State Board of Education, born in Dubuque, Iowa, the daughter of William Lawther and Annie Elizabeth (Bell) Lawther. Her grandparents were among the earliest settlers of the state. Received early education in public schools of Dubuque and prepared for college at Miss Stevens' school, Germantown, Pa. Received her bachelor of arts degree from Bryn Mawr college college in 1897. The year following her graduation she became assistant bursar of Bryn Mawr college. From 1904 to 1905 she was the warden of Marion Hall, Bryn Mawr college, and from 1907 to 1912 she was the secretary of Bryn Mawr college. During the campaign for equal suffrage in the spring of 1916, Miss Lawther was the chairman of the Dubuque County Equal Suffrage league and in the autumn of the same year was elected president of the Iowa Equal Suffrage association and was twice re-elected to that position. She was a member of the state council of defense during the war. When presidential suffrage was granted to the women of Iowa by the thirty-eight general assembly, Miss Lawther was made the democratic national committeewoman for Iowa. Was sent as a delegate to the democratic national convention at San Francisco in 1920, and to the democratic national convention in New York City in 1924. Miss Lawther was an alumnae director of Bryn Mawr college from 1923 to 1928. A democrat. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)