Clara McAdow

Clara Coltrin Tomlinson McAdow (1838 – January 19, 1896) was an American women's suffragist and a mine owner in Montana.

Biography McAdow was born Clara Coltrin in Ohio, the eldest of eight children born to Joseph and Annie Coltrin. She grew up in Jackson, Michigan. She got a job with Northern Pacific Railroad and did side jobs including a check-cashing business because there was not yet a bank in Billings, Montana.

When Tomlinson died, she took their savings and invested in real estate in Billings. The mine, which she purchased for $11,000, was sold in 1890 for $500,000.

Clara and Perry married in 1884, She left an estate worth an estimated two million dollars.

On October 2, 1897, Perry married Marian A. Tyrrell-Wyles in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The couple moved to Punta Gorda, Florida, where they resided until Perry's death.

McAdow was intensely interested in the women's suffrage movement, hosting Carrie Chapman Catt and Susan B. Anthony in her home to promote giving women the vote. She founded a branch of the women’s literary society the Twentieth Century Club. She was a member of the Society for Psychical Research; however, she was also a skeptic, being one of the people who exposed Henry Slade as a fraud.