Biography
Katherine Morey was a Massachusetts suffragist and Silent Sentinel. Among the first NWP picketers arrested at the Wilson White House in 1917, carrying a banner from a Wilson speech that read "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?". Jailed at the District 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.
The appendix identifies Katharine A. Morey of Brookline as Agnes Morey’s daughter and a Massachusetts National Woman’s Party officer. It records her organizing work in the 1916 Kansas election campaign and assistance at the party’s national headquarters.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 365.
The June 27, 1917 Washington report individually lists Katherine Morey among six suffrage picketers convicted in police court following White House banner demonstrations. It reports an alternative of a $25 fine or three days and says the women were consulting counsel about their choice. This contemporary report establishes the announced alternatives, rather than independently proving three days actually served. Its $25 figure is preserved as reported without replacing different fine amounts or actual custody recorded from other sources.
Irwin identifies Katherine Morey and Lucy Burns as the first White House pickets arrested on June 22, 1917, saying they were never brought to trial for that first arrest. Morey appears separately in the June 27 group receiving three-day District Jail terms and in the Boston account reporting her release February 26, 1919. Those distinct phases do not substantiate uninterrupted confinement across the legacy combined interval. Irwin, pp.201–228,401–416.
