the first woman to be elected to the Warren Board of Education. Throughout her life Upton participated in a number of other organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Women's Relief Corps, and the Episcopal Church. Death and legacy Harriet Taylor Upton died in Pasadena, California, on November 2, 1945, aged 91. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1981, in the category of Government and Military Service. In early 2010, Upton was proposed by the Ohio Historical Society as a finalist in a statewide vote for inclusion in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol. The Harriet Taylor Upton House in Warren, Ohio, is a National Historic Landmark. In March 2021, Mike Loychik, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives proposed a bill that would rename Ohio's Mosquito Lake State Park to "Donald J. Trump State Park". In response to this, a local resident then began a petition with the goal of renaming it after Harriet Taylor Upton. Works The Foster-Children of Washington. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1888. —Children's book. The Household of Andrew Jackson. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1889. —Children's book. Our Early Presidents, Their Wives and Children: From Washington to Jackson. Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1890. —Children's book. The Family of Jefferson. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1891. —Children's book. A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1909. A History of the Western Reserve and Its People. Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1910. Militancy: An Excuse. Warren, OH: Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, n.d. [c. 1910]. Japanese Gardens. London : Methuen & Co., 1912. Random Recollections of Harriet Taylor Upton: An Autobiography. n.c. [Columbus, OH?]: n.p., n.d. [1920s]. References External links Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1917-1925. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. 1853 births 1945 deaths American suffragists 19th-century American women writers Writers from Pasadena, California People from Warren, Ohio Ohio Republicans Women in Ohio politics American temperance activists Activists from Ohio Activists from California 19th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers Woman's Relief Corps people