Jersey shore during the summer months when large crowds of people were present. New
Profile: Lillian Ford Feickert (1878–1945)
Lillian Ford Feickert was a leading New Jersey suffragist. In 1910, she became enrollment chair
of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA). From 1912 to 1920, Feickert served as
president of the NJWSA. Born in Brooklyn, Feickert often emphasized her family’s roots in colonial
America. She married Edward Foster Feickert, a banker from New York, in 1902, and the couple
Foster’s banking career was successful, enabling the couple to move to a much larger property in
the foothills of the Watchung Mountains, bordering on Somerset, Union, and Middlesex counties;
their mailing address, however, was located in Dunellen in Middlesex County.
After the passage of Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Feickert was named vice-chairman
of the Republican State Committee and given the job of organizing the Republican women of the
Flyer, “People Say…We Say,” Women’s
Political Union, 1915
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Lillian Feickert, undated
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