Miriam Howard Du Bose

Daisy Miriam Howard Dubose (1862–1945) was an American organist and suffragist. She was one of the founding members of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).

Early life Dubose was born to Augustus Howard and Ann Lindsay on November 28, 1862, in Russell County, Alabama. She was one of fifteen siblings and family lived in Columbus, Georgia. She was educated by a music teacher from the age of 14 to 16.

Activism In 1890, Dubose, her sisters (Helen Augusta Howard and Claudia Howard Maxwell) and their widowed mother, organized the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA). Dubose served a vice-president of the association, She attended the 1894 annual convention in Washington D.C. Susan B. Anthony visited the Howard sisters en route to the convention. Dubose was a delegate to the convention and gave an address titled "Georgia Curiosities."

Dubose was also a member of the National Council of Women of the United States.

After her husband died, Dubose reassumed her maiden name with the honorific Mrs and was known as Mrs Miriam Howard of Columbus, Georgia.

By 1920, she was employed as a stenographer in Columbus. She died in 1945.