List of Kentucky suffragists explained

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

Groups

• Anderson County Woman's Suffrage League, created in 1913.^[1]
• Columbus Equal Rights Association, founded in 1897.^[2]
• Fayette County Equal Rights Association, created in January 1888.
• Kentucky Equal Rights Association, formed on November 22, 1888.
• Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs.
• Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association (KWSA).
• Louisville Equal Rights Association (LERA), formed in 1889, later changed name to the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville in 1908.
• Madison County Equal Rights Association.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Suffragists

• Susan Look Avery (Louisville).^[3]
• Lizzie Bates (Louisville).^[4]
• Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860–1923) – Kentucky temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist.^[5]
• Cornelia Beach (Louisville).
• Sallie Clay Bennett.
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) – suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers (Lexington).
• Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education (Lexington).
• Mary E. Britton (Lexington).
• Nannie Helen Burroughs (Louisville).
• Sylvia Butcher (Louisville).
• Alice Barbee Castleman (Louisville).^[6]
• Margaret Weissinger Castleman (Louisville).
• Laura Clay (Lexington).^[7]
• Mary Barr Clay (Richmond).
• Sarah A. Corrington (Nicholasville).
• Alice Crutcher (Louisville).
• Cora De Sha Barnett (Louisville).
• Ellen Battelle Dietrick.
• Emma Dolfinger (Louisville).
• Eugenia B. Farmer (Covington).
• John G. Fee.
• Mary Elliott Flanery.^[8]
• Lucy Flint (Louisville).
• Jessica Firth (Covington).
• Bettiola Heloise Fortson (Hopkinsville).
• Lucretia Gibson (Louisville).
• Fannie Givens (Louisville).
• Eliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) – author, women's rights advocate.^[9]
• Hattie Harris (Louisville).^[4]
• Rachel Davis Harris (Louisville).
• Ida Withers Harrison (Lexington).
• Josephine Henry (Versailles).
• Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907) – author, suffragist.^[10]
• Jessie Leigh Hutchinson (Lexington).
• Rebecca Rosenthal Judah (Louisville).
• Eliza Kellar (Louisville).
• Dorothy Koger (Paducah).
• Katherine G. Langley (Pikeville).
• Mary Lafon (Louisville).
• Maudellen Lanier (Louisville).
• Caroline Leech (Louisville).
• Eleanor Tarrant Little (Louisville).
• Essie Mack (Louisville).
• Patsie Sloan Martin (Louisville).
• Angell Mengel (Louisville).
• Georgia Moore (Louisville).
• Georgia Nugent (Louisville).
• Eliza Calvert Obenchain (Bowling Green).
• Mary Virginia Cook Parrish (Louisville).
• Virginia Penny (Louisville).
• Josephine Fowler Post (Paducah).
• Mary Creegan Roark (Lexington).
• Ella Robinson (Louisville).
• Sarah Hardin Sawyer.
• Patty Blackburn Semple (Louisville).
• Lucy Wilmot Smith (Louisville).^[11]
• Isabella H. Shepard (Frankfort).
• Lavinia B. Sneed (Louisville).
• Louise Southgate (Covington).
• Ida Stanley (Arlington).
• Mamie Steward (Louisville).
• Ellen Taylor (Louisville).
• Mary Florence Taney (Newport).
• Carolyn Verhoeff (Louisville).
• Mary Verhoeff (Louisville).
• John H. Ward (Louisville).^[12]
• Mary Fitzbutler Waring (Louisville).^[4]
• Martha Webster (Louisville).^[4]
• Bertha Whedbee (Louisville).^[4]
• Alice D. White (Louisville).
• Artishia Gilbert-Wilkerson (Louisville).^[4]
• Emma Woerner.^[13]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• William Lindsay.
• Edwin P. Morrow.

Suffragists campaigning in Kentucky

• Jane Addams.
• Susan B. Anthony.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Emma Smith DeVoe.
• Max Eastman.
• Margaret Foley.^[14]
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Lucretia Mott.
• Rosika Schwimmer.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Lucy Stone.

Anti-suffragists

• Henry Watterson.
• Augustus E. Willson.^[15]
• Clarence Woods.

References

Sources

• Allen . Ann Taylor . Spring 2020 . Woman Suffrage and Progressive Reform in Louisville, 1908-1920 . Ohio Valley History . 20 . 1 . 54–78 . subscription . Project Muse.
• Book: Anthony, Susan B.. The History of Woman Suffrage. The Hollenbeck Press. 1902. Anthony. Susan B.. 4. Indianapolis. Susan B. Anthony. Harper. Ida Husted.
• Book: Fuller, Paul E.. Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement. The University Press of Kentucky. 1975. 0813112990. Lexington, Kentucky. en.
• Book: Goan, Melanie Beals. A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote. The University Press of Kentucky. 2020. 9780813180175. Lexington, Kentucky. en.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted . The History of Woman Suffrage . J.J. Little & Ives Company . 1922 . New York . Ida Husted Harper.
• Book: Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. Oxford University Press. 1993. 0195075838. New York. en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wallace Moore Bartlett. 2022-01-18. Humanities and Social Sciences Online. en.
2. Web site: Mrs. E.W. Avery. 2022-01-18. Humanities and Social Sciences Online. en.
3. Web site: Kentucky Suffragists. 2022-01-18. Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project. en-US.
4. Web site: 2020-10-22. African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville. 2022-01-19. ArcGIS StoryMaps. en.
5. Book: Kerr . Charles . History of Kentucky: Discovery and exploration by the English of the Ohio country . 1922 . American Historical Society . 3 . 138 . en . 30 July 2024.
6. Qaddura . Heather . Biography of Alice Barbee Castleman, 1842-1926 . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 . Alexander Street.
7. Web site: Kentucky and the 19th Amendment. 2022-01-18. U.S. National Park Service. en.
8. Web site: Hollingsworth . Randolph . 24 June 2020 . Mary E. Flanery c1921 . 2022-05-09 . H-Kentucky H-Net.
9. Web site: Eliza Calvert Hall, 1856-1935 . 2024-08-08 . KY Historical Society . en.
10. Web site: Senters . Melinda . 13 March 2019 . Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830-1907): Writer, Speaker, Suffragist . 2024-09-15 . H-Kentucky.
11. Web site: Suffragists in Kentucky. 2022-01-19. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. en-US.
12. News: Knott . Claudia . 22 August 2010 . Louisville Women Spurred Right to Vote . H1 . The Courier-Journal . 9 March 2022 . Newspapers.com. and News: Vote Suffrage History . H4 .
13. News: 1913-11-22 . Big Increase in Membership . 6 . Lexington Herald-Leader . 2022-03-09 . Newspapers.com.
14. 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.
15. News: 1907-11-17 . Resolutions . 3 . Lexington Herald-Leader . 2022-03-09 . Newspapers.com.