Judith Winsor Smith (1821-1921) lived here in the last years of her life. She was an active suffragist, abolitionist, and member of the New England Women’s Club. She was an activist in the East Boston community where she lived for 65 years and her home was known as “House Helpful.” When she voted for the first time in 1920, she was dubbed “the oldest suffragist of them all.” In her later years, she lived in Jamaica Plain with her daughter Zilpha Smith (1852-1926), a pioneer in the development of family social work in Boston.
