This is a list of New York suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in New York state.
Groups
edit- Equality League of Self Supporting Women.[1]
- Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.[2]
- The Men's League.[3]
- New York Equal Suffrage League.[4]
- New York State Suffrage Association.[5]
- Woman Suffrage Party (branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association).[6]
Suffragists
editA
- Edith Ainge
- Margaret Chanler Aldrich
- Lillian Anderson Turner Alexander
- Ann Allebach
- Charlotte Bolles Anthony
- Mary Stafford Anthony
- Susan B. Anthony.[7]
B
- Caroline Lexow Babcock
- Elnora M. Babcock
- Isabel Barrows
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates
- Robert Cameron Beadle -- member of the Men's League.[8]
- Mary Ritter Beard
- Alva Belmont
- Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist.
- Frances Maule Bjorkman
- Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York.[9]
- Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist.[10]
- Lillie Devereux Blake
- Harriot Stanton Blatch
- Minta Bosley Allen Trotman
- Helen Varick Boswell
- Gertrude Foster Brown (1867–1956) – pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it (1918).[11][12]
- Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist.[13]
- Helen Louise Bullock
- Celia M. Burleigh
- Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the NWP.[14]
- Abigail Bush
- Elinor Byrns
C
- Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of NAWSA.[15]
- Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist.[16]
- Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution.[17]
- Elizabeth V. Colbert
- Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights.[18]
- Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes.[19]
- George William Curtis
D
E
- Genevieve Earle
- Max Eastman -- member of the Men's League.[20]
- Mary E. Eato
- Helen Gilbert Ecob
F
G
- Olive Stott Gabriel
- Sarah J. Garnet
- Rhoda Fox Graves
- Cordelia A. Greene (1831–1905), physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association.[21]
- Jean Brooks Greenleaf (1832–1918) – president, New York State Suffrage Association (1890–96).[5]
- Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC.[22][23]
- Mary Young Cheney Greeley
H
- Mary Halton
- Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper.[24]
- Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck
- Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States.[25]
- Mary Foote Henderson
- Ami Mali Hicks
- Margaret Hinchey
- Marie Jenney Howe
- Mary Seymour Howell
- Maud Humphrey
- Arria Sargent Huntington
- Addie Waites Hunton (1866–1943) – suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, educator.[26]
I
J
- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906) – medical physician, teacher, scientist, and writer.[27]
- Paula O. Jakobi
- Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.[28]
- Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones."[29]
- Verina Morton Jones
K
- Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) – National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum).[30]
- Harriette A. Keyser (1841–1936) – industrial reformer, social worker, author; co-organizer, New York Woman Suffrage Association.[31]
- Harriette A. Keyser
- Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt (1874–1961) – settlement house worker, socialist, and suffragist.[32]
- Anna M. Kross
L
- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community.[33]
- Clara Lemlich
- Miriam Leslie (1836–1914) – publisher, author; namesake of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.[34]
- Cynthia Leonard
- Mary Lilly
- Henrietta Wells Livermore
- Rose Livingston
- Sophia Monté Neuberger Loebinger
- Mary Hillard Loines
- Clemence S. Lozier
- Maritcha Remond Lyons
M
- Pauline Arnoux MacArthur
- Katherine Duer Mackay (1878–1930) – founder of the Equal Franchise Society.[35]
- Theresa Malkiel (1874–1949) – labor organizer and suffragist.[36]
- Hazel MacKaye
- Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye
- Theresa Malkiel
- Maud Malone
- Wenona Marlin (New York City).[37]
- Abbie K. Mason
- Annie Mathews
- Victoria Earle Matthews
- Samuel Joseph May
- Mary Ann M'Clintock (1800–1884) – suffragist who helped plan the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.[38]
- Thomas M'Clintock (1792–1876) – abolitionist and suffragist, husband of Mary Ann M'Clintock.[38]
- Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement.[39]
- Mary Molson
- Elisabeth Worth Muller
N
O
- Martha B. O'Donnell (1836–1925) – temperance activist, newspaper and magazine editor and publisher.[40]
- Eliza Wright Osborne
P
- Herbert Parsons -- member of the Men's League.[41]
- Clara Louise Payne
- Mary Gray Peck.[42]
- Amy and Isaac Post
R
- Charlotte B. Ray
- Eugénie M. Rayé-Smith
- Alice Riggs Hunt
- Belle de Rivera (1848–1943) – clubwoman; president, New York Equal Suffrage League.[4]
- Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968) – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem.[43]
- Elizabeth Selden Rogers
- Margaret Hayden Rorke
S
- Ida Sammis
- Nina Samorodin (1892–1981) – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League.[44]
- Eleanor Butler Sanders
- Rose Schneiderman
- Sylvia B. Seaman
- Alice Wiley Seay
- Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862–1939) – writer, suffragist.[45]
- May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in philosophy in the United States.[46]
- Jane Norman Smith (1874–1953) – suffragist and reformer. Chairman of the National Woman's Party from 1927 to 1929.[47]
- Elizabeth Smith Miller
- Jean Spahr
- Clara B. Spence
- Lucy J. Sprague
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Kathryn H. Starbuck
- Catharine A. F. Stebbins
- Susan McKinney Steward
- Kate Stoneman
- Alice Harrell Strickland
T
U
V
- Amelie Veiller Van Norman
- Narcissa Cox Vanderlip
- Fanny Garrison Villard
- Oswald Garrison Villard -- member of the Men's League.[48]
W
Suffragists who campaigned in New York
editSee also
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- ^ "The record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc., 1917-1929". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ Eastman 1912, p. 18.
- ^ a b "BELLE BE RIVERA, CLUB FOUNDER, DIE5.; Organizer and Ex-President of' N. Y, City Federatlon of' Women's Clubs Was 95". The New York Times. 31 March 1943. p. 19. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ a b Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 340.
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- ^ "Senators to Vote on Suffrage Today; Fate of Susan B. Anthony Amendment Hangs in Balance on Eve of Final Test". New York Times. 26 September 1918.
- ^ Kroeger, Brooke (2018-03-16). "The little-known story of the men who fought for women's votes". Medium. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
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- ^ Marzell, Terry Lee (6 September 2014). "Katherine Devereux Blake: Chalkboard Champion, Suffragist, and Peace Activist". Chalkboard Champions. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
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Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, born in 1842 in London, grew up in New York and began publishing short stories at 17. But what she really wanted was to be a doctor. ...
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