Biography
Ellen Winsor was a Pennsylvania 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. (November 30, 1882 - July 25, 1959)
She was arrested on January 13, 1919, released on bail and rearrested that evening, held overnight, and sentenced on January 14 to five days in the District Jail. Sources describe her as spending five days in jail; no discharge record has been found, so the nominal release date of January 19 is not entered.
One biographical account alleges an earlier arrest in the summer of 1917 involving a meeting or a statue. No contemporary arrest roster supporting it has been located, so it is recorded here as unverified and no case row is created for it.
Brooke Chandler’s biography reports Ellen Winsor’s arrest at the Metropolitan Opera House on April 26, 1922 while petitioning for the release of imprisoned anti-war IWW members. It identifies reported disorderly-conduct, breach-of-peace and incitement charges, but supplies no prison-admission, release, disposition or detention-duration record.
Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, Ellen Winsor biography.
Stevens identifies Ellen Winsor of Haverford as the sister of Mary Winsor and Mrs. Edmund C. Evans, who also served suffrage sentences. Those relatives’ individual cases are not assigned to Ellen.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 370.
