Biography
Elise T. Russian was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: January 1919: five days; February 1919: eight days in Charles Street Jail.
Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.
Updated Boston custody dates
Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.
Stevens records five days imposed for the January 1919 watchfire and eight days imposed for the February Boston demonstration. The source does not report thirteen days actually served. The summed nominal actual-day override is removed; existing historical dates remain preserved.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 14.
Kenneally identifies Elise T. Russian among the suffragists jailed in Boston in February 1919, separately from her earlier Washington arrest. The Boston court was presided over by Judge Wilfred A. Bolster. The reported eight-day sentence does not establish eight days actually served.
James J. Kenneally, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45(1), Winter 2017, printed pages 113–117.
Stevens separately reports a five-day District Jail sentence for a January 1919 watchfire demonstration and an eight-day Boston sentence in February. The January nominal sentence is distinct from the existing Boston custody case. It supplies no individual physical arrest, admission or discharge date or complete served duration.
Stevens describes Russian as born in Constantinople, educated in the United States and a former Massachusetts schoolteacher. It identifies her as a state officer of the National Woman’s Party associated with Detroit. These are historical biographical statements, not a current address or organizational office.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 367.
