Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg

1845–1937 (age 92)

civic leader

Biography

Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg was a pioneering suffragist and civic leader whose advocacy in Philadelphia helped shape the movement for women's rights and broader social reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

She served on boards and committees, championed education and public health, and inspired others through speeches and civic clubs that urged collaboration across communities.