Biography
Minnie Hennessy 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. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: October 8, 1917: six-month sentence.
Stevens distinguishes an October 6, 1917 picketing arrest whose sentence was suspended from a new October 8 arrest followed by a six-month sentence. The suspended first sentence is not additional six-month custody, and the nominal later term is not converted into time actually served.
Stevens prints Minnie Hennesy of Hartford and distinguishes her October 6, 1917 picketing arrest, for which the sentence was suspended, from her October 8 rearrest and six-month sentence already recorded here. The October 6 episode has no reported jail admission, release day or completed custody duration. No six-month actual service is inferred.
Stevens describes Hennessy of Hartford as a businesswoman who had supported herself throughout her life.
