Biography
Elsie Unterman, also recorded as Elsa Unterman and under her former married name Elsie Ramp, was a member of the National Woman's Party jailed twice during the 1917-1919 campaign for woman suffrage. She married Floyd Cleveland Ramp on December 21, 1914 and later divorced. Her dates of birth and death are unresolved.
On January 25, 1919 she was arrested for applauding suffrage prisoners in court and sentenced to forty-eight hours for contempt. She was released on January 27 and then arrested or recommitted the same day after applauding again, drawing a second forty-eight-hour sentence. Both terms were served in the District Jail.
The total time is unresolved. Stevens's appendix summarises her as having served three days, which cannot be reconciled with two consecutive forty-eight-hour sentences. The two sentencing dates are recorded because they are documented; the end of the second term is not, so the nominal completion date of January 29 is left out.
