Dora Sandoe Bachman
Dora Sandoe Bachman portrait; an older white woman
Born
Lydora Olivia Sandoe

October 8, 1869
Tiffin, Ohio
DiedJanuary 1, 1930 (age 60)
Columbus, Ohio
Occupation(s)Lawyer, suffragist, school official

Dora Sandoe Bachman (October 8, 1869 – January 1, 1930) was an American lawyer, community leader, and suffragist. She was the first woman graduate of the Ohio State University College of Law, in 1893. She was vice-president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.

Early life and education

Dora Sandoe was born in Tiffin, Ohio,[1] and raised in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Henry Harrison Sandoe and Eliza M. Barton Sandoe. Her father was a pastor in the Reformed Church.[2] She attended Pleasantville Collegiate Institute and Curry University.[3] In 1893, she became the first woman graduate of the Ohio State University College of Law,[4][5] and the seventh woman admitted to the bar in Ohio.[6][7]

Career

Bachman taught school as a young woman.[2] She and her husband shared a law practice in Columbus, where she specialized in family law.[8] She was the first woman elected to the Columbus Board of Education, on which she held a seat from 1910 to 1917.[9] She served as board president in 1913, the first woman to be a school board president in an Ohio city.[2] She ran unsuccessfully for a judgeship in 1920.[10] She was attorney for the Florence Crittenden Home in Columbus.[1] She was founding vice-president of the Columbus Home and School Association.[11] She chaired the legislative committee of the Ohio branch of the National Congress of Mothers.[12]

Bachman was vice-president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association,[13][14] during the presidency of Harriet Taylor Upton. She drafted the defeated 1912 Ohio suffrage referendum, and a field worker on the campaign for the 1914 Ohio suffrage referendum, which also failed. In 1913 she was part of the Ohio contingent marching in the large pro-suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. She served as a legal advisor to Alice Paul in the formation of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.[4] "Suffrage is but one step in the evolution of woman," she told a 1917 audience. "Economic independence is the next step."[13] She became head of the Social Hygiene Committee of the Ohio League of Women Voters in 1920.

Bachman was president of the Columbus Cremation Society, and a member of the Columbus Women's Newspaper Club.[8] She spoke at the YWCA in Akron in 1914, on "Woman as a Citizen".[15] She spoke to the Columbus chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta in 1917, on "Ohio Laws Pertaining to Women".[16] She spoke to the Columbus Woman's Homeopathic Society in 1920, on "The Causes of Delinquency" among working girls.[17]

Personal life

Sandoe married fellow lawyer Jacob Leo Bachman. One of their three sons died in infancy in 1904.[4] Her husband died in 1920,[18] and she died in 1930, at the age of 60, in Columbus.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mrs. Dora S. Bachman, of Columbus, Ohio". The Lawyer & Banker and Southern Bench & Law Review. 6: 373. December 1913 – via 6.
  2. 1 2 3 "Former Teacher of Butler County is Head of School Board in Capital of Ohio". Butler Citizen. 1913-01-13. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved 2023-08-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Mrs. Bachman, '93, Leader". The Ohio State University Monthly. 7 (10): 19. June 1916.
  4. 1 2 3 Cizek, Natalie. "Biographical Sketch of Dora Sandoe Bachman". Alexander Street Documents. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  5. ↑ "Class Reunions During the Commencement Season". Ohio State University Monthly. 9 (9–10): 29. June–July 1918.
  6. ↑ "'We Are Seven'; The Lady Attorney Who Visited Chillicothe Yesterday in the Interest of Lewis Hill". Chillicothe Gazette. 1894-06-16. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. 1 2 "Mrs. Dora S. Bachman Dies". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1930-01-02. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. 1 2 "Ohio Woman Practices Law But is Devoted Mother and Wife as Well". Muskogee Times-Democrat. 1907-09-26. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-08-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Hauser, Elizabeth J. (1910-01-10). "Women Who Serve on Ohio School Board". Palladium-Item. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Brilliant Woman Lawyer to Speak". The News-Messenger. 1920-09-27. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "County Parent-Teachers Group is 17 Years Old". Columbus Evening Dispatch. 1928-09-23. p. 58. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Regret Governor's Action". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1921-05-28. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. 1 2 "Financial Troubles Cause Most Divorces Declares Columbus Woman in Address Here". The Marion Star. 1915-05-07. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Woman's Suffrage Lecture in Marion; Mrs. Dora Sandoe Bachman is to Speak Here". The Marion Star. 1915-05-04. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Mrs. Dora Sandoe Bachman to Speak to Woman's Council". The Akron Beacon Journal. 1914-01-06. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-08-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ Taft, Mabel M. (May 1917). "Chapter News: Columbus Alumnae". Kappa Alpha Theta. 31 (4): 451.
  17. ↑ "The Columbus Woman's Homeopathic Society, 1919-1920". Central Journal of Homoeopathy. 1 (4): 17. June 1920.
  18. ↑ "Ohio Socialist Leader is Dead". The Tribune. 1920-07-08. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-08-31 – via Newspapers.com.
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