List of New York (state) suffragists
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This is a list of New York suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in New York state.
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Groups
[edit]- Equality League of Self Supporting Women.[1]
- Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.[2]
- The Men's League.[3]
- New York State Suffrage Association.[4]
- Woman Suffrage Party (branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association).[5]
Suffragists
[edit]- Robert Cameron Beadle -- member of the Men's League.[6]
- Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist.
- Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York.[7]
- Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist.[8]
- Gertrude Foster Brown (1867–1956) – pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it (1918).[9][10]
- Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist.[11]
- Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the NWP.[12]
- Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of NAWSA.[13]
- Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist.[14]
- Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution.[15]
- 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.[16]
- Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes.[17]
- Max Eastman -- member of the Men's League.[18]
- Cordelia A. Greene (1831–1905), physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association.[19]
- Jean Brooks Greenleaf (1832–1918) – president, New York State Suffrage Association (1890–96).[4]
- 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.[20][21]
- Mary Young Cheney Greeley
- 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.[22]
- Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States.[23]
- Herbert Parsons -- member of the Men's League.[24]
- Oswald Garrison Villard -- member of the Men's League.[25]
- Edith Ainge
- Margaret Chanler Aldrich
- Lillian Anderson Turner Alexander
- Ann Allebach
- Charlotte Bolles Anthony
- Mary Stafford Anthony
- Susan B. Anthony
- Caroline Lexow Babcock
- Elnora M. Babcock
- Isabel Barrows
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates
- Mary Ritter Beard
- Alva Belmont
- Frances Maule Bjorkman
- Lillie Devereux Blake
- Harriot Stanton Blatch
- Minta Bosley Allen Trotman
- Helen Varick Boswell
- Helen Louise Bullock
- Celia M. Burleigh
- Abigail Bush
- Elinor Byrns
- Elizabeth V. Colbert
- George William Curtis
- Mabel Potter Daggett
- Katharine Bement Davis
- Sarah Dolley
- George T. Downing
- Gudrun Løchen Drewsen
- Genevieve Earle
- Mary E. Eato
- Helen Gilbert Ecob
- Nellie Fassett
- Jessica Garretson Finch
- Sarah D. Fish
- Olive Stott Gabriel
- Sarah J. Garnet
- Rhoda Fox Graves
- Mary Halton
- Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck
- Mary Foote Henderson
- Ami Mali Hicks
- Margaret Hinchey
- Marie Jenney Howe
- Mary Seymour Howell
- Maud Humphrey
- Arria Sargent Huntington
- Addie Waites Hunton
- Maud Ingersoll Probasco
- Mary Putnam Jacobi
- Paula O. Jakobi
- Hester C. Jeffrey
- Verina Morton Jones
- Harriette A. Keyser
- Anna M. Kross
- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
- Clara Lemlich
- Cynthia Leonard
- Mary Lilly
- Henrietta Wells Livermore
- Rose Livingston
- Sophia Monté Neuberger Loebinger
- Mary Hillard Loines
- Clemence S. Lozier
- Maritcha Remond Lyons
- Pauline Arnoux MacArthur
- Katherine Duer Mackay
- Hazel MacKaye
- Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye
- Theresa Malkiel
- Maud Malone
- Wenona Marlin
- Abbie K. Mason
- Annie Mathews
- Victoria Earle Matthews
- Samuel Joseph May
- Harriet May Mills
- Mary Molson
- Elisabeth Worth Muller
- Lyda D. Newman
- Martha B. O'Donnell
- Eliza Wright Osborne
- Clara Louise Payne
- Amy and Isaac Post
- Charlotte B. Ray
- Eugénie M. Rayé-Smith
- Alice Riggs Hunt
- Ruth Logan Roberts
- Elizabeth Selden Rogers
- Margaret Hayden Rorke
- Ida Sammis
- Eleanor Butler Sanders
- Rose Schneiderman
- Sylvia B. Seaman
- Alice Wiley Seay
- Nettie Rogers Shuler
- 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
- Mary Burnett Talbert
- Kathleen de Vere Taylor
- Katrina Ely Tiffany
- Elizabeth Richards Tilton
- Adelaide Underhill
- Amelie Veiller Van Norman
- Narcissa Cox Vanderlip
- Fanny Garrison Villard
- Lillian Wald
- Anna White
- Vira Boarman Whitehouse
- Rosalie Loew Whitney
- Julia Wilbur
- Catherine Mary Douge Williams
- Portia Willis
- Martha Coffin Wright
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ DuBois, Ellen Carol (1987). "Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909". The Journal of American History. 74 (1): 34–58. doi:10.2307/1908504. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1908504.
- ^ "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 Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 340.
- ^ "archives.nypl.org -- New York State Woman Suffrage Party records". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ Kroeger, Brooke (2018-03-16). "The little-known story of the men who fought for women's votes". Medium. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- ^ "Irene Moorman Blackstone -". Archives of Women's Political Communication. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
- ^ Marzell, Terry Lee (6 September 2014). "Katherine Devereux Blake: Chalkboard Champion, Suffragist, and Peace Activist". Chalkboard Champions. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Hannan, Caryn; Herman, Jennifer L. (2008). Illinois biographical dictionary (2008-2009 ed.). Hamburg, MI: State History Publications. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-1878592606. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Brown, Gertrude Foster (1918). Your vote and how to use it. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. verso. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ ""General" Rosalie Jones and the Suffrage Hikes". New York Heritage. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
- ^ "Lucy Burns". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
- ^ Oaks, Jodi. "Biography of Jennie Curtis (Mrs. Henry W.) Cannon, 1851-1929". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ "Mariana Wright Chapman. Death of a Woman of Much Influence in the Life and Thought of Brooklyn". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 11, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved 1 August 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Scutts, Joanna (2014-03-07). "'The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in Gilded Age' by Myra MacPherson". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ Thomas, Beth. "Suffrage – Bristol". Ontario County Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
- ^ "Ida A. Craft, Brooklyn's Suffrage Pioneer". Kingsborough Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ^ "The Suffrage Cause and Bryn Mawr - American Speakers II". Bryn Mawr. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
- ^ Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam (1925). The Story of the Life and Work of Cordelia A. Greene, M.D. Castile, New York: The Castilian. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Mount Airy: Home of Helen Hoy Greeley". Piedmont Virginia Digital History: The Land Between the Rivers. 7 February 1913. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ "Helen Hoy Greeley Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection". Swarthmore Home. 21 August 2015. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- ^ Seligman, Edna. "Longshoremen Interested in The Suffrage Question". p. 22.
- ^ Poletika, Nicole (2022-01-27). "'A Hundred Years From Now—What?:' Mary Garrett Hay Predicts Life in 2022". The Indiana History Blog. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ Neuman, Johanna (July 2017). "Who Won Women's Suffrage? A Case for 'Mere Men'". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 16 (3): 347–367. doi:10.1017/S1537781417000081. ISSN 1537-7814.
- ^ Reynolds, Eileen (2017-09-05). "These powerful men were humble allies for women's vote". Futurity. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
Sources
[edit]- Eastman, Max (October 1912). "Early History of the Men's League". The Woman Voter. 3 (9): 17–18 – via Internet Archive.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "Jean Brooks Greenleaf". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Charles Wells Moulton.