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Farran Zerbe (1871–1949) was an American coin collector and dealer who was the president of the American Numismatic Association (ANA) in 1908 and 1909. Born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, he collected coins from childhood. He joined the ANA in 1900, and served as chief numismatist at the world's fairs at St. Louis (1904), at Portland (1905) and at San Francisco (1915). He exhibited his collection at banks across the U.S. beginning in 1907, the year he was elected ANA president, until he sold it to the Chase National Bank in 1928, thereafter serving as its curator. He purchased the journal of the ANA, The Numismatist, for himself from the widow of its founder in 1908. A factional fight in the ANA followed but Zerbe's chosen successor was elected. In 1969, he was posthumously inducted into the Numismatic Hall of Fame. The ANA's highest honor, awarded annually, had long been called the "Farran Zerbe Memorial Award", but the ANA removed his name from the honor in 2021. (Full article...)

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Iris Calderhead (1889–1966) was a suffragist and organizer in the National Woman's Party. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement in 1915 after meeting Doris Stevens and Lucy Burns, leaders of the Congressional Union, in New York City. She spent the next several years traveling around the US, mobilizing support for a federal constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's right to vote. She was arrested twice in 1917, first for displaying a banner during a visit by President Woodrow Wilson and then for picketing the White House. The Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States in 1919, but Calderhead's activism continued as she campaigned for the same rights internationally.

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