Ella Riegel

Ella Riegel (1867 - January 20, 1937) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. Riegel was a graduate of the first class of Bryn Mawr College and would remain associated with the college the rest of her life.

Biography Regel was born in 1866 in Pennsylvania. Riegel was part of the first class of Bryn Mawr College and graduated in 1889. She became interested in anthropology and archaeology. Riegel served as the business manager for the Suffrage Special. Along with Mrs. Charles Wister Ruschenberger, she sent photographs of a "women's liberty bell" to each United States Senator. The bell had a chained tongue, so it could not ring.

In a 75-woman protest carried out on February 9, 1919, Riegel was arrested. The protest was part of a series of "watch fires" carried out by the NWP due to the failure of the Senate to pass the 19th amendment. Riegel also fought for women's independent citizenship and full guardianship of their own children. Riegel was the woman's party delegate to the Hague conference for the Codification of International Law in 1930. She traveled through Europe and Latin America and worked with the Women's Consultative Committee of the League of Nations. In 1940, an archaeological museum named for Riegel was opened in the Bryn Mawr library.