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.
• Hazel MacKaye
• Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye
• Theresa Malkiel
• Maud Malone
• Wenona Marlin (New York City).
• 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

• 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.
• 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

Sources