Biography
Mrs. George E. Roewer 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: February 1919: eight days in Charles Street Jail.
The article identifies her as Rosa H. Roewer, described as Mrs. George Roewer. James J. Kenneally’s reconstruction identifies Mrs. George E. Roewer among the February 1919 Boston suffrage prisoners whose proceedings were heard by Municipal Court Chief Justice Wilfred A. Bolster. The eight-day sentence described in this episode was nominal; individual releases after fines were paid must not be replaced with an assumed eight days served.
Kenneally, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45(1), Winter 2017, printed pages 113–118.
Stevens describes Roewer as a Radcliffe graduate active in suffrage since her college years. It identifies her with Belmont, Massachusetts, and describes her grandparents as participants in the German Revolution of 1848 who subsequently came to the United States in exile. That family history is not an additional imprisonment or exile case for Roewer.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 367.
