Julia Ruhl was West Virginia Equal Rights Suffrage Association President and very well-known. She helped unite groups in the West Virginia referendum and national campaigns.

Ruhl’s family spent summers at their Mountaint Lake Park cottage in Garrett County and were active in the Methodist Church’s Chautauqua movement. There, she continued her suffrage work, supported by other Methodist deaconesses, with meetings, speeches and writings. The Clarksburg Telegram published a cheering message to West Virginia suffragists written from her home in Mountain Lake Park in 1916.

The celebration to mark the unveiling of her suffrage marker took place during the 2022 Victorian Chautauqua Festival on  July 10, 2022. (Click on photo gallery to read captions.)