they want to try everything. >> inez milholland went on to live a life of political activism. >> guest: she's always involved in suffrage and actually then they were soap boxing and they would drive around the city and cars honking their horns speaking from the bacthebackseat how women shoulde and also they start accelerati accelerating, taking to the streets in parades and she became famous for a parade in new york she was leaving. usually on horseback. she was a worse -- horse person and at the most visible representative. one of the big criticisms is that the suffragists pour very masculine and they were not very womanly but she was a combination of being quite beautiful and quite physically stunning and a great speaker, very comfortable. often she would speak at smokers where only a pose at yale and then were and people were just blown away by this combination of brains and beauty. >> host: when you say she was famous, was she famous within her circle or the media what you and i have known about it? >> guest: she was famous across the country. she rose to national fame by alice pau

and that's sort of the beginning of the press be' love affair with inez milholland. >> host: you said she was rich. ing who was her family? >> guest: herred dad, actually, his tower had come over from -- his father had come over from ireland before the potato famine, and then her dad had grown up, and it looks like a new jersey congressman had sort of mentored him, sent him off to college. he became a newspaperman, he became head of editorials for the new york tribune, a republican a paper. he also got involved in the marketing of the e-mail of the turn of the last century which is pneumatic tubes. you know that when you go to the drive through at the bank, back then he ran a company that installed 50 underground tube systems that he rented out to the u.s. post office in manhattan, in brooklyn too. and his, he had gotten enough and he was a stock speculator that that made him worth about a half million dollars in the early 1900s which you could imagine what that would be worth today. so very, very comfortable. and he sort of right before the turn of the century, 1899, he took his wife