Notes for: Bessie Isabel Nutter

After graduating from West Union H.S., attended WV Wesleyan College, Berea College, KY, and DePaul College, IN. At WV Wesleyan, she played center on the women's basketball team. While teaching in her home town of West Union, WV, Bessie, with her nine sisters, was active in the women's suffrage movement. After voting rights were granted, she became secretary of Doddridge County's first Republican Women's Organization. She also taught at Charleston, WV, Muskegon Heights, MI, and Lansing, MI.