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Abbie Howard Hunt Stuart founded the first women's club known as the Olympia Woman's club. She was born on October 28, 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts and died January 5, 1902 in San Francisco, California. She was married to Robert Stuart which later on she moved to Olympia with him. Abbie came to the west to seek a career and was college-educated.

Olympia Woman's Club
Olympia was known for its progressive ideology throughout the west. Abbie was a cofounder of the club but didn't want to use the club in form to express her pro suffrage beliefs. Instead she wanted this club to unite every women to talk about literature and non-controversial topics. The first meeting was held at the new Stuart Block building until they purchased an official one. The club rose funds, to move to the current building that was finished in 1908 by the Timberland Library.

Unfortunately, Abbie passed away before the building was finished. In her honor they named the building after her due to her being a cofounder of the Olympia Woman's Club. Also, to mention how she didn't live when the suffrage movement was enacted.

Olympia Woman's Club Co founders
The club was founded on March 10, 1883, by Abbie Howard Hunt Stuart, Emily Olney French, Mary Olney Brown, Clara Sylvester, Ella Stork, and Janet Moore. Abbie donated land in which they established there permeant meetings in this building. The motto for this club was the "for study and mutual improvement of its members".