Estelle Turrell Smith

She started to teach when seventeen years of age, at the same time continuing her special studies, then among the masters of art and song. In 1875 she moved with her parents to Longmont, Colorado. She taught two years in the State Agricultural College in Fort Collins, Colorado.^[1]

After the death of her husband, she became more deeply interested in the problems of woman's progress. Having means and leisure at her command, she devoted much time to the study and support of social reforms. Her devotion to the work of reform and her frequent contributions to the press soon won for her a place as a leader.^[1]

Soon after her second marriage, she was elected president of the Polk County Woman Suffrage Society. She was an efficient member of the State executive committee for four years, and president of the State Woman Suffrage Association of Iowa. At her instigation a series of mothers' mass meetings was held in Des Moines. The large City Hall was filled again and again, hundreds of women taking active part. Smith was chosen president of the meetings. Through those meetings a bill regulating the property rights of women was presented to the State legislature.^[1] In November 1896, she addressed the twenty-fifth annual convention of the association.^[2]

In 1875 she became the wife of P. M. Hinman, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, who died a few years later.^[1]

In 1884 she became the wife of Dr. A. B. Smith, of Des Moines, Iowa.^[1]