List of New York (state) suffragists

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

American Equal Rights Association. Equality League of Self Supporting Women. Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission. The Men's League. New York Equal Suffrage League. New York State Suffrage Association. Poughkeepsie Woman Suffrage Party. Woman Suffrage Party (branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association).

Suffragists A

Edith Ainge Margaret Chanler Aldrich Lillian Anderson Turner Alexander Ann Allebach Charlotte Bolles Anthony Mary Stafford Anthony Susan B. Anthony. B Minta Beach Caroline Lexow Babcock Elnora M. Babcock Isabel Barrows Juanita Breckenridge Bates Robert Cameron Beadle—member of the Men's League. 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. Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist. 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). Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist. Helen Louise Bullock Celia M. Burleigh Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the NWP. Abigail Bush Elinor Byrns C Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of NAWSA. Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist. Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution. 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. Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes. George William Curtis D

Mabel Potter Daggett Katharine Bement Davis Sarah Dolley George T. Downing Gudrun Løchen Drewsen

E Genevieve Earle Max Eastman—member of the Men's League. Mary E. Eato Helen Gilbert Ecob F

Nellie Fassett Jessica Garretson Finch Sarah D. Fish

G Olive Stott Gabriel Matilda Joslyn Gage Sarah J. Garnet Rhoda Fox Graves Cordelia A. Greene (1831–1905), physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association. Jean Brooks Greenleaf (1832–1918) – president, New York State Suffrage Association (1890–96). 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. 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. Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. Mary Foote Henderson Ami Mali Hicks Margaret Hinchey Helen Holman (1894–?) – African-American suffragist and political activist 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. I

Maud Ingersoll Probasco

J Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906) – medical physician, teacher, scientist, and writer. Paula O. Jakobi Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs. Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones." 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). Harriette A. Keyser (1841–1936) – industrial reformer, social worker, author; co-organizer, New York Woman Suffrage Association. Harriette A. Keyser Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt (1874–1961) – settlement house worker, socialist, and suffragist. Anna M. Kross

L Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community. Clara Lemlich Miriam Leslie (1836–1914) – publisher, author; namesake of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission. 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. Theresa Malkiel (1874–1949) – labor organizer and suffragist.Miller (1978), pp. 200-201. Hazel MacKaye Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye Theresa Malkiel Maud Malone Wenona Marlin (New York City)."Suffrage at Bay Ridge" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 27, 1913): 8. via Newspapers.com 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. Thomas M'Clintock (1792–1876) – abolitionist and suffragist, husband of Mary Ann M'Clintock. Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement. Mary Molson Elisabeth Worth Muller N Lyda D. Newman O Martha B. O'Donnell (1836–1925) – temperance activist, newspaper and magazine editor and publisher. Eliza Wright Osborne P Rhoda Palmer (1816–1919), participant in the Seneca Falls Convention and signer of the Declaration of Sentiments Herbert Parsons—member of the Men's League. Clara Louise Payne Mary Gray Peck. E. Jean Nelson Penfield, president, Woman Suffrage Party, 1910-12 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. Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968) – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem. Sourced from 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. Eleanor Butler Sanders Rose Schneiderman Janet Scudder. Sylvia B. Seaman Alice Wiley Seay Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862–1939) – writer, suffragist. May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in philosophy in the United States. Jane Norman Smith (1874–1953) – suffragist and reformer. Chairman of the National Woman's Party from 1927 to 1929. Elizabeth Smith Miller Alice D. Snyder (Poughkeepsie). 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 Mary Burnett Talbert Kathleen de Vere Taylor Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcaster. Katrina Ely Tiffany Elizabeth Richards Tilton (1834–1897) – founder of the Brooklyn Women's Club, poetry editor of The Revolution. Annie Rensselaer Tinker (1884–1924) – suffragist, volunteer nurse in World War I, and philanthropist. U Adelaide Underhill V Amelie Veiller Van Norman (1844–1920) – educator; president, Joan of Arc Suffrage League; vice-president, New York County Suffrage League; member, Suffrage Party, New York City. Narcissa Cox Vanderlip Fanny Garrison Villard Oswald Garrison Villard—member of the Men's League. W Lillian Wald Mary Edwards Walker Anna White Vira Boarman Whitehouse Rosalie Loew Whitney Julia Wilbur Catherine Mary Douge Williams Portia Willis Martha Coffin Wright

Suffragists who campaigned in New York

L. J. C. Daniels. Laura M. Johns.

See also

List of African American suffragists List of American suffragists

References

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