Eva C. Doughty (, Graves; December 1, 1852 – November 4, 1929) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Michigan Woman's Press Association and the Mt. Pleasant Library, Literary and Musical Association. She served as president of the Grand Rapids Equal Suffrage Association.
Early life and education
Eva Craig Graves was born in Warsaw, Kentucky, December 1, 1852. Her father, Judge Lorenzo Graves, was a politician and lawyer. Her mother was Virginia Hampton-Graves.
Doughty was educated in Oxford Female College, Oxford, Ohio, leaving her Kentucky home during the civil war years from 1860 to 1864, which years she passed in the college with her two other sisters. Prior to that, she had been taught by private tutors. After a four-year course in Oxford, she entered the Academy of the Most Holy Rosary, in Louisville, Kentucky, conducted by sisters of the Dominican Order, where she studied nearly three years, and left just two months before she would have been graduated, to accompany a sister, whose husband was in the regular army, to a frontier post.
Career
On May 24, 1874, she married John R. Doughty, then editor and proprietor of the Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Enterprise. She was at once installed as associate editor with her husband. She did regular newspaper work on that paper for fourteen years, keeping the office hours and doing anything connected with the office work, from proof-reading and type-setting to writing for any department of the paper where "copy" was called for.