List of Iowa suffragists explained

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

Groups

• Afro-American Protective Association.
• Boone Equality Club.^[1]
• Chariton Equal Suffrage Society.
• Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912.^[2]
• Iowa Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), formed as the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA) in 1870.
• Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.^[3]
• Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (IFWC).^[1]
• Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society.^[4]
• Men's League for Women's Suffrage, organized in 1910.^[5]
• Men's League of Perry.
• Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.^[1]
• Political Equality Club of Sioux City, formed in 1889.
• Polk County Suffrage Association.^[3]
• Waterloo Suffragette Council.^[6]
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).^[1]

Suffragists

• Mary Newbury Adams.^[7]
• Teresa Adams (Davenport).^[1]
• Adelaide Ballard.
• Mary A. Beavers (Mount Pleasant).
• Evelyn H. Belden.
• Narcissa T. Bemis.
• Amelia Bloomer (Council Bluffs).^[5]
• Sue M. Wilson Brown (Des Moines).^{[3] [1]}
• Martha C. Callanan.
• Margaret W. Campbell.
• Carrie Chapman Catt (Charles City).
• Nettie Sanford Chapin (Marshalltown).
• Mary Jane Coggeshall.^[7]
• Fannie Wilson Cooper (Des Moines).^[8]
• Mary Darwin (Burlington).
• Keziah Anderson Dorrance (Taylor County).
• Helen Downey.^[3]
• Joseph Dugdale (Mount Pleasant).
• Marion Howard Dunham (Burlington).^[9]
• Flora Dunlap (Des Moines).^[10]
• Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919).
• Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) (Sioux City).^[11]
• Matilda Fletcher (Council Bluffs).
• Mariana Thompson Folsom.
• Alvah and Martha Frisbie
• Eleanor Gordon (Boone).^{[12] [1]}
• Eliza H. Hunter.
• Caroline Ingham (Kossuth County).
• Harvey Ingham (Kossuth County).
• Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – Universalist minister and suffragist.^[13]
• Grace Morris Allen Jones (Burlington).^[14]
• Jennie A. Kilburne (Adair County).
• Anna B. Lawther (Dubuque).^[15]
• James Rush Lincoln.
• Mabel Lodge (Cedar Falls).^[16]
• Arabella Mansfield.^[7]
• Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist.
• Jane Amy McKinney.
• Carrie Dean Pruyn.^[17]
• Lizzie Bunnell Read (Algona).
• Gertrude Rush.^[3]
• Mary Safford.
• Anna H. Satterly.
• Annie Nowlin Savery (Des Moines).
• Vivian Smith
• Rowena Edson Stevenson (Boone).^[1]
• Adeline Morrison Swain.^[7]
• Mary Beaumont Welch (Ames).^[18]
• Henrietta Wilson (Dubuque).
• Mattie Woods.

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Cyrus C. Carpenter.
• William L. Harding.
• William Larrabee.
• Benjamin F. Murray (Winterset).
• Henry O'Connor.
• William G. Wilson (Davis County).

Publications

• Woman's Standard, created in 1886.

Suffragists campaigning in Iowa

• Jane Addams.
• Susan B. Anthony.
• Henry Browne Blackwell.
• Martha H. Brinkerhoff.
• Laura Clay.
• Phoebe Couzins.
• Hannah Tracy Cutler.
• Emma Smith DeVoe.^[19]
• Anna Dickinson.
• Frances Dana Gage.^[7]
• Helen M. Gougar.
• Laura A. Gregg.
• Ella Harrison.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Matilda Hindman.
• Laura M. Johns.
• Addie M. Johnson.
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch.
• Henrietta G. Moore.
• Anna Howard Shaw.^[1]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Sarah Burger Stearns.
• Lucy Stone.
• Harriet Taylor Upton.
• Frances Woods.

See also

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

References

Sources

• Book: Anthony, Susan B.. The History of Woman Suffrage. The Hollenbeck Press. 1902. Anthony. Susan B.. 4. Indianapolis. Susan B. Anthony. Harper. Ida Husted.
• Boyd. Katherine. Partial Suffrage in Iowa: 1894. Spring 2018. University of Iowa.
• Book: Catt. Carrie Chapman. Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. Shuler. Nettie Rogers. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1923. New York. Carrie Chapman Catt. Nettie Rogers Shuler.
  • Egge. Sara. The Grassroots Diffusion of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa: The IESA, Rural Women, and the Right to Vote. 2009. Iowa State University.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted. The History of Woman Suffrage. J.J. Little & Ives Company. 1922. New York. Ida Husted Harper.
• Book: Noun, Louise R.. Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. The Iowa State University PRess. 1969. 0813816025. Ames, Iowa.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Women's Suffrage in Iowa. 2021-09-12. Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Iowa State University. en-US.
2. Hoskins. Danielle. Biographical Sketch of Sue M. Wilson Brown, 1877-1941. Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists. Alexander Street.
3. Web site: Toward A Universal Suffrage: Profiles of Courage. 2021-09-01. Central Iowa Community Museum. en-US.
4. 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.
5. Web site: Iowans in the Suffrage Movement. 2021-09-01. Greater Des Moines Partnership.
6. Web site: Benkowich. Allyn. Corey. Kristen. 22 March 2020. Iowa women's history profile: Vivian B. Smith of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. 2021-12-10. The Gazette. en-US.
7. Web site: Cloud. Sue. Corey. Kristen. Morse. Eric. 1 March 2020. The long road to women's suffrage in Iowa. 2021-09-10. Des Moines Register. en-US.
8. Web site: Hoskins . Danielle . Biographical Sketch of Fannie Wilson Cooper . 2023-03-28 . Alexander Street.
9. Woman's Days at Iowa Fairs. . The Woman's Column . 1892 . V . 30 . 159 . 5 August 2022 . American Woman Suffrage Association . en.
10. Web site: 2020-02-25. Suffragist Flora Dunlap. 2021-09-10. Iowa PBS. en.
11. Book: Howe . Julia Ward . Sketches of representative women of New England . Graves . Mary H. (Mary Hannah) . Elliott . Mary Elvira . Stimpson . Mary A. . Hoyt . Martha Seavey . 1904 . New England Historical Pub. Co. . Boston . 391–93 . en . Susan Breese Snowden Fessenden . 6 August 2022 . Wikisource.
12. Web site: 2020-03-25. Suffragists Gordon and Safford. 2021-09-10. Iowa PBS. en.
13. Cristoforo . Genna . Biographical Sketch of Effie McCollum Jones . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 . Alexander Street.
14. Web site: Benkowich. Allyn. Corey. Kristen. Grace Morris Allen Jones. 2021-09-04. Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration.
15. Web site: Waterbury. Robert. 23 March 2021. Women's Suffrage Event Spotlights Dubuque Native Anna Lawther. 2021-09-01. Loras College Daily.
16. Hartman. Hayley. Biographical Sketch of Mabel Lodge. Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Alexander Street.
17. Web site: Schwarzkopf. Mikki. 10 September 2020. ALL VOTES MATTER. 2021-09-26. The Jefferson Herald.
18. Web site: Mary Beaumont Welch. 2021-09-04. Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration.
19. News: 1894-09-06. The lecture at the Presbyterian. 4. The Courier. 2021-09-25. Newspapers.com.