Biography
Maud Jamison was a Virginia Silent Sentinel and one of the movement's longest-serving repeat prisoners. She was among the first six picketers jailed for three days in June 1917; sentenced in October 1917 to seven months but released after forty-four days; and served a further five-day term in January 1919.
Stevens explicitly reports four separate periods for Maud Jamison: three days in June 1917, a later thirty-day District Jail stay, release after forty-four days on the October seven-month sentence, and five days in January 1919. The total of eighty-two documented days is preserved across these distinct episodes; no single continuous eighty-two-day interval or new endpoints are inferred.
Stevens describes Jamison as a former schoolteacher and businesswoman who came to Washington in 1916 as a National Woman’s Party volunteer and later assisted in its treasurer’s department.
The June 27, 1917 Washington report individually lists Maud Jamison 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.
