SEPTEMBER 2024 | 19 THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL Statements or opinions expressed in the Oklahoma Bar Journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Oklahoma Bar Association, its officers, Board of Governors, Board of Editors or staff. qualifications of persons eligible to elective or appointive offices of the state to women. On March 25, 1921, she married T. S. Cobb, a former county judge of Seminole County. He was one of the typical fighting, frontier-type lawyers, and she admired his spirit; he admired hers as well. After leaving the Indian Department, she continued practicing law with her husband and assisted him in his projects throughout his bouts with failing health. Ms. Cobb “was a woman of considerable literary ability, and had she chosen an exclusively literary career might have risen to heights of distinction.”8 Even with her focus on her legal career, she did have many published poems and articles. Fostered by her intense interest in literature, Ms. Cobb helped form the Wewoka Writers Club, which may have explained her willingness to become a librarian for the Wewoka City Library. Ms. Cobb also exercised her literary abilities when she and her husband produced The Gossip, a news sheet that championed the unpopular issues of the day and stood up for the underprivileged minority. After the death of her husband, she continued its publication and “was a champion of what she felt was right against corruption, politically and socially.”9 Ms. Cobb’s legal career was diverse. Besides practicing law, she served a term as justice of the peace in Wewoka, and for several years, she was a municipal judge for the city of Wewoka. During her tenure as judge, she prepared the charter and ordinances of the city of Wewoka for publication in 1935. In 1922, Ms. Cobb became the Oklahoma chairman of the National Women’s Party, and in 1924, she organized a convention for the Government Workers Council of the National Women’s Party in Washington, D.C. She was also parliamentarian of the Federation of Women’s Clubs and a member of the Women’s Bar Association of Oklahoma, the National Institute of Social Sciences, the American Bar Association, the American Academy of Political Science, the American Economic Society and the Women Lawyers Club of New York. She was also listed in “Who’s Who in America.” When Ms. Cobb died March 14, 1946, the Seminole County Bar Association resolved that “it has lost an honored and distinguished member of the bar, a positive and dynamic thinker who had the courage of her convictions, whose place in our association will probably never be filled during the lifetime of any of its present members.”10 ENDNOTES Individual Sources: Vance Trimble 1. H.W. Carver, “Necrology: Florence Ethridge Cobb, 1878-1946,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, XXV (Spring 1947), Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1947, pp. 72-73. 2. “Originator of Inaugural Suffrage Parade Passes,” Wewoka Times-Democrat, March 15, 1946, p. 1. 3. Id. 4. Id. 5. Id. 6. Id. 7. Id. 8. Id. 9. Id. 10. Carver.
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