Rose Morgan French

Rose E. Morgan was born in Oswego, New York.^[1]

French was President of the Women's Federation of Public Good in San Francisco. She was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), and the California Equal Suffrage Association. She was a member of the board of directors of the California Girls' Training Home, volunteered as a "special police officer",^[2] and advocated for prisoners' rights.^[3] "We have the brotherhood of man," she said in a 1911 speech, adding that "what we need sadly is the sisterhood of woman."^[1] After California women won the right to vote, she traveled to other states campaigning for women's suffrage.^[4][5]

She was a delegate to the International Congress of Women at its 1915 meeting in the Hague,^[6][7][8] and at its 1919 meeting in Zürich.^[9][10] She corresponded with Jane Addams^[9] and was close to Hungarian feminist Rosika Schwimmer.^[11][12]

Morgan married English-born ophthalmologist Hayes Clifton French in 1878. They had a son who died young, and two daughters, Victoria and Davida.^[13][14] Her husband died in 1902,^[15] and she died in 1929, at the age of 69, from injuries sustained in a car accident in Los Angeles.^[16][17]