Biography
Phoebe Persons Scott 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: November 10, 1917: 30 days; sent to Occoquan.
Stevens describes Scott as a Smith College graduate who specialized in biology and botany and performed settlement work at New York’s Henry Street Settlement. It records state-suffrage work before she became an officer of the National Woman’s Party.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 367.
