Miriam Howard Dubose

Dubose was born to Augustus Howard and Ann Lindsay on November 28, 1862, in Russell County, Alabama.^[1] She was one of fifteen siblings and family lived in Columbus, Georgia. She was educated by a music teacher from the age of 14 to 16.^[1]

Dubose worked as organist at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus until her marriage and also composed instrumental music.^[1] She married at an early age and gave birth to a son, Walter Howard Dubose.^[2]

In 1890, Dubose, her sisters (Helen Augusta Howard and Claudia Howard Maxwell) and their widowed mother, organized the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).^[2][3] Dubose served a vice-president of the association,^[1] which was affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).^[4][5] She attended the 1894 annual convention in Washington D.C.^[4]

After her sister convinced the NAWSA to hold the 1895 annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia,^[6] Susan B. Anthony visited the Howard sisters en route to the convention.^[7] Dubose was a delegate to the convention and gave an address titled "Georgia Curiosities."^[6] She called for women's enfranchisement in the context of her traditional feminine role as a mother, arguing that: "I am a woman and a mother. I have a son to rear whose pure moral character I am powerless properly to mould and discipline without the ballot."^[8]

Dubose was also a member of the National Council of Women of the United States.^{[citation needed]}

After her husband died, Dubose reassumed her maiden name with the honorific Mrs and was known as Mrs Miriam Howard of Columbus, Georgia.^[4]

By 1920, she was employed as a stenographer in Columbus.^[2] She died in 1945.^{[citation needed]}