List of Indiana suffragists explained

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

Groups

• Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society.^[1]

Suffragists

• Georgia Alexander (1868–1928), textbook author and educator; Director, Woman's Franchise League of Indiana (affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association).^[2]
• Helen Vickroy Austin (1829–1921) – journalist, horticulturist, suffragist.^[3]
• Marion Harvie Barnard (1872-1969) - treasurer of the Indiana NAWSA chapter.
• Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement.^[4]
• Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States.^[5]
• Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist.^[6]
• Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician.^[7]
• Elizabeth Bunnell Read (1832–1909) – published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War;^[8] Vice-president, Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society; President of the Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society.

Suffragists campaigning in Indiana

• Margaret Foley.^[9]

References

Sources

• Book: Harper, Ida Husted . Ida Husted Harper . The History of Woman Suffrage . J.J. Little & Ives Company . 1922 . New York.

Notes and References

1. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . . 1893 . 600–01 . READ, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bunnell . 23 March 2024 . Wikisource.
2. June 1914 . Who's Who in Indiana . Indiana, Past and Present . en . M. R. Hyman Company . 1 . 3 . 11, 17, 22 . 4 May 2024.
3. Web site: MaryKate McMaster . AUSTIN, Mrs. Helen Vickroy . 2024-07-31 . Woman of the Century.
4. Web site: Ida Husted Harper . 2024-08-09 . Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame . en-US.
5. Web site: Poletika . Nicole . 2022-01-27 . 'A Hundred Years From Now—What?:' Mary Garrett Hay Predicts Life in 2022 . 2024-08-09 . The Indiana History Blog . en-US.
6. Web site: Loiselle . Aimee . Biography of Mary McCurdy (Martha "Mary" Harris Mason McCurdy), 1852–1934 . February 28, 2019 . Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists . Alexander Street.
7. Web site: 2020 . A Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of La Porte County, Indiana, Commemorating the Centennial of the Raatification of the Nineteenth Amendment and Honoring Women's Equality Day . 28 October 2024 . Board of Commissioners of La Porte County, Indiana.
8. Book: American journalism . 1983 . American Journalism Historians Association . Conway, AR . 2 . 23 March 2024.
9. Web site: Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 . 7 August 2024 . Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.