Biography
Harriet U. Andrews 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. (May 23, 1884 - March 7, 1959)
She was arrested on January 7, 1919 at a watchfire demonstration, and sentenced and committed on January 8 to five days in the District Jail. Sources describe her as serving five days; no discharge record has been found, so the nominal release date of January 13 is not entered.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning January 8, 1919: January 13, 1919, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning January 8, 1919: January 13, 1919, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Stevens identifies Andrews as coming from Kansas City to Washington for wartime work before her suffrage imprisonment.
