List of Illinois suffragists

This is a list of Illinois suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Illinois.

Groups

• Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913.
• Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910.
• Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894.
• Chicago Teachers' Federation.
• Chicago Woman's Club.
• Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society.
• Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888.
• Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in 1900.
• Earlville Suffrage Association, formed in 1855.
• Ella Flagg Young Club.
• Illinois Equal Franchise Society.
• Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
• Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.
• Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA).
• Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909.
• Naperville Equal Suffrage Club, created in 1888.
• National Woman's Party.
• The Ossoli Club, formed in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1894.
• Sorosis.
• Springfield Suffrage Association.
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Illinois.
• Women's Trade Union League (WTUL).

Suffragists

• Sadie Lewis Adams (Chicago).
• Jane Addams.
• Mary A. Ahrens (Chicago).
• Royal Allen.
• Susan E. Allen Cannon (Galesburg).
• Naomi Talbert Anderson (Chicago).
• Susan Look Avery (Chicago).
• Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer. (Chicago).
• Eugenia M. Bacon.
• Laura Beasley (Chicago).
• Ella G. Berry (Chicago).
• Kizziah J. Bills (Chicago).
• Anna Blount (Oak Park).
• Elizabeth K. Booth (Glencoe).
• Louise DeKoven Bowen (Chicago).
• Myra Colby Bradwell.
• Sophonisba Breckinridge (Chicago).
• Virginia Brooks (Chicago).
• Adella Maxwell Brown (Peoria).
• Laura Robinson Campbell (East St. Louis)
• Agnes Chase.
• Mary C. Clarke (Chicago).
• George E. Cole (Chicago).
• Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward (Chicago).
• Prudence Crandall.
• Caroline Bartlett Crane (Chicago).
• Gertrude Crocker (Hinsdale).
• Ruth Crocker (Hinsdale).
• Susan Lawrence Dana (Sangamon County).
• Cornelia De Bey (Chicago).
• Margaret Dobyne.
• Kate N. Doggett (Chicago).
• Elvira Downey (Clinton).
• Ida Darling Engelke (Chicago).
• Elizabeth Hawley Everett (Highland Park).
• Lucy H. Ewing (Chicago).
• Janet Kellogg Fairbank (Chicago).
• Samuel Fallows (Chicago).
• Clara M. Farson (St. Charles).
• Henry B. Favill (Chicago).
• Lucy Flower.
• Antoinette Funk (Chicago).
• Sophie Gibb (Decatur).
• Catherine Goggin (Chicago).
• Harriet Grim (Chicago).
• Emily M. Gross.
• Alonzo Jackson Grover (Earlville).
• Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Evanston).
• Margaret Haley (Chicago).
• Effie Henderson (Bloomington).
• Mary Emma Holmes (Chicago)
• Carrie S. Cook Horton (Chicago).
• Kate Hughes (Table Grove).
• Alta Hulett.
• Adelaide Johnson.
• Carrie Ashton Johnson (Rockford).
• Mary Jane Richardson Jones (Chicago).
• Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Chicago).
• Lillian G. Kohlhamer (Chicago).
• Florence E. Kollock (Chicago).
• Mary H. Krout (Chicago).
• Maydie Spaulding Lee (Springfield).
• Lena Morrow Lewis (Chicago).
• Mary Livermore.
• Elizabeth F. Long (Barry).
• Judith Weil Loewenthal (Chicago).
• Andrew MacLeish (Chicago).
• Anna A. Maley.
• Ellen A. Martin (Lombard).
• Mary Mather (Sangamon County).
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Evanston).
• J. Howard Moore (Chicago).
• Mary Foulke Morrisson (Chicago).
• Henry Neil (Chicago).
• Agnes Nestor (Chicago).
• Anna E. Nicholes (Chicago).
• S. Grace Nicholes (Chicago).
• Maude Gregg Palmer (Springfield).
• Fannie H. Rastall.
• Harriet Reed (Springfield).
• Susan Hoxie Richardson (Earlville).
• Mabel Sippy (Chicago).
• Julia Holmes Smith.
• Eva Munson Smith.
• Elmira E. Springer.
• Belle Squire (Chicago).
• Ida Staggall.
• Helen Ekin Starrett (Chicago).
• Ella S. Stewart.
• Mary Thomas.
• Helen Todd (Chicago).
• Grace Wilbur Trout (Oak Park).
• Elsie Unterman (Chicago).
• Mary L. Walker.
• Clara Barck Welles (Chicago).
• Ida B. Wells (Chicago).
• Frances Willard.
• Fannie Barrier Williams (Chicago).
• Jennie Willing (Rockford).

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Martin B. Bailey.
• Charles Bogardus.
• James Bradwell.
• Charles H. Carmon (Forrest).
• Orrin N. Carter.
• Miles B. Castle.
• Albert C. Clark.
• Michael H. Cleary.
• William A. Compton.
• Reuben W. Coon.
• John M. Curran.
• Edward C. Curtis.
• George W. Curtis.
• Samuel A. Ettelson.
• Isaiah T. Greenacre.
• George W. Harris.
• Logan Hay.
• Hugh S. Magill.
• Walter Clyde Jones.
• Kent E. Keller.
• Walter I. Manny.
• Medill McCormick.
• Willard McEwen.
• Thomas J. McMillan.
• Fayette S. Munro (Highland Park).
• Barratt O'Hara.
• W. Duff Piercy.
• Murray F. Tuley.
• Richards S. Tuthill.
• Emil N. Zolla (Chicago).

Places

• Leland Hotel (Springfield).
• Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago).

Publications

• The Agitator, created in 1869.

Suffragists campaigning in Illinois

• Susan B. Anthony.
• Henry B. Blackwell.
• Celia Burleigh.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Miriam M. Cole.
• Phoebe Couzins.
• Emma Smith DeVoe.
• Margaret Foley.
• Helen M. Gougar.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Isabella Beecher Hooker.
• Julia Ward Howe.
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.
• Emmeline Pankhurst.
• Lilly Peckham.
• Mary Whitney Phelps.
• Parker Pillsbury.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Ethel Snowden.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Lucy Stone.
• Mabel Vernon.
• Zerelda G. Wallace.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, formed in 1897.

People

• Anton J. Cermak (Chicago).
• Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago).
• Levy Mayer (Chicago).
• Emma Susan Gillett Oglesby (Elkhart).
• S. M. Nickerson
• J. C. Fairfield
• Geo. W. Smith
• Ralph N. Isham
• A. T. Galt
• WM. Eliot Furness
• Francis Lackner
• Mary Pomeroy Green

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Illinois
• Women's suffrage in Illinois
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

Sources

External links

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