"Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet and suffragist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada. Field drove a petition containing 500,000 signatures asking for suffrage from California to Washington, D.C. to present to President Woodrow Wilson. She was a skilled orator and became a poet later in her career, marrying C.E.S. Wood." - wikipedia.com

Virginia Arnold Miss Arnold, of North Carolina, was one of six pickets arrested in June of 1917 and was sentenced to three days in districted jail after refusing to pay $25 fines for obstructing traffic. They were the first women to serve time for suffrage activist.

Mary A. Nolan Mrs. Nolan of Jacksonville, Florida was often described as one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines. Of Irish descent, Nolan was born in Virginia and educated at the convent of Mont de Chantal in West Virginia. As a young woman she worked as a teacher and leader in the Southern library movement. She was also prominent in Confederate organizations and a suffrage pioneer.

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Minnie Quay of Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested November 10, 1917, while picketing the White House in Washington, D.C., and sentenced to 30 days in District Jail. She was sent instead to the Occoquan workhouse and was there during the "Night of Terrror", Nov 15, 1917, during which guards used violence toward imprisoned protestors.

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