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Mrs. George Hill

Released
Full name:George Hill
Date of birth:1878
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
8 Days
Support
Women's Suffrage
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Biography

Mrs. George Hill 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.

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.

Stevens records an eight-day sentence for the February 1919 Boston demonstration. It does not explicitly establish that all eight days were served. The stored nominal-as-actual day override is removed; no unsupported admission or release endpoint is substituted.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 8.

Case

Arrested: Feb 24, 1919
Sentenced: Feb 25, 1919
Incarcerated: Feb 24, 1919
Released: Mar 4, 1919
Sentence: Boston suffrage demonstration: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. Eight elapsed days.