List of Massachusetts suffragists explained

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

Groups

• American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
• Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government.^[1]
• College Equal Suffrage League.^[2]
• Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.^[3]
• Massachusetts School Suffrage Association.
• Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.^[4]
• National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
• Worcester Equal Franchise Club.^[5]

Suffragists

• Jane Kelley Adams (1852–1924) — educator; chair of the Woburn, Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League.^[6]
• Sarah Louise Arnold (1859–1943) – Massachusetts suffragist; first dean of Simmons College; national president, Girl Scouts of the USA.^[7]
• Mary Alderson Chandler Atherton (1849–1934), educator, author, publisher; member of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.
• Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858–1923) – educator, lecturer, author; chair, Moral Education Department, Boston Equal Suffrage Association.^[8]
• Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist.^[9]
• Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915) – president, Woburn (Massachusetts) Equal Suffrage League; State lecturer, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.
• Sarah Stoddard Eddy (1831–1904) – social reformer, clubwoman.^[10]
• Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.^[11]
• Martha Seavey Hoyt (1844–1915) – biographer, newspaper correspondent, and businesswoman; member, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.^[12]
• Rachel Harris Johnson (1887–1983)- member of the Worcester Equal Franchise Club.
• Mary Morton Kehew (1859–1918) – labor/social reformer and suffragist from Boston.^[13]
• Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society.^[14]
• Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) – architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists.
• Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG); worked for passage of the 19th Amendment.^[15]
• Mary Hutcheson Page (1860–1940) – Member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. 1910 President of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• Cora Scott Pond Pope (born 1856) – Massachusetts suffragist; teacher, pageant writer, real estate developer.
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) – African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston.^[16]
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) – African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor.^[17]
• Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck (1850–1937) – president of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts.

Suffragists who campaigned in Massachusetts

• Laura M. Johns.^[18]

See also

• List of American suffragists

Notes and References

1. Book: Vetter, Herbert F. . Notable American Unitarians 1936 to 1961 . Lulu.com . 2007 . 978-0-615-14784-0 . subscription.
2. Library of Congress. American Memory: Votes for Women. One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview, compiled by E. Susan Barber with additions by Barbara Orbach Natanson. Retrieved on May 28, 2009.
3. Panetta . Meg . Biographical Sketch of Mary Hutcheson Page . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 . Alexander Street.
4. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . 1922 . J.T. White . XVIII . 351–52 . en . ATHERTON, Mary Alderson Chandler . 31 August 2023 . https://books.google.com/books?id=vPEpAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA350.
5. Web site: Cook . Lisa Connelly . 2000 . Johnson, Rachel Harris . 21 August 2024 . American Biography Online . en . 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2001554.
6. Book: Logan . Mrs John A. . The Part Taken by Women in American History . 1912 . Perry-Nalle Publishing Company . en . 26 October 2022.
7. Web site: Sarah Louise Arnold: The Suffragist Dean . 30 July 2024 . Simmons University Archives . Simmons University.
8. 1908 . CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. XVII. CLARA BANCROFT BEATLEY . The Unitarian . en . T.F. Pruett . 3 . 2 . 387–89 . 30 July 2024.
9. Book: Hoxie . Elizabeth F. . Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2 . 1971 . . 9780674627345 . James . Edward T. . 362–363 . Collins, Jennie . https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=PA362.
10. Book: Robinson . Harriet Jane Hanson . Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774, to 1881 . 1883 . Roberts Brothers . 261 . en . 15 April 2022.
11. 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.
12. Book: Howe . Julia Ward . Sketches of Representative Women of New England . Graves . Mary Hannah . 1904 . New England Historical Publishing Company . 251–53 . en . MARTHA SEAVEY HOYT . 11 January 2024.
13. Web site: Mary Morton (Kimball) Kehew Trustee . 2024-10-21 . Suffrage at Simmons.
14. Web site: Abby Kelley Foster at First National Woman’s Rights Convention . 2024-10-21 . Worcester Women's History Project.
15. Web site: Our History . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130514165224/http://www.lwvboston.org/about/boston-chapter/ . 2013-05-14 . 2013-03-03 . League of Women Voters of Boston.
16. Book: Zackodnik . Teresa C. . "We Must Be Up and Doing": A Reader in Early African American Feminisms . 2010 . Broadview Press . 9781460402146 . 275–276.
17. Web site: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin . 2024-12-03 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
18. Web site: 2020-03-11 . Salinan part of Kansas Museum of History exhibit . 2024-09-15 . Salina Post.