List of New York (state) suffragists explained

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

• Equality League of Self Supporting Women.^[1]
• Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.^[2]
• The Men's League.
• New York Equal Suffrage League.^[3]
• New York State Suffrage Association.
• Woman Suffrage Party (branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association).^[4]

Suffragists

A

• Edith Ainge
• Margaret Chanler Aldrich
• Lillian Anderson Turner Alexander
• Ann Allebach
• Charlotte Bolles Anthony
• Mary Stafford Anthony
• Susan B. Anthony.^[5]

B

• Caroline Lexow Babcock
• Elnora M. Babcock
• Isabel Barrows
• Juanita Breckenridge Bates
• Robert Cameron Beadle -- member of the Men's League.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist.^[8]
• 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).^{[9] [10]}
• Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist.^[11]
• Helen Louise Bullock
• Celia M. Burleigh
• Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the NWP.^[12]
• Abigail Bush
• Elinor Byrns

C

• Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of NAWSA.^[13]
• Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist.^[14]
• Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution.^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes.^[17]
• 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.^[18]
• Mary E. Eato
• Helen Gilbert Ecob

F

• Nellie Fassett
• Jessica Garretson Finch
• Sarah D. Fish

G

• Olive Stott Gabriel
• Sarah J. Garnet
• Rhoda Fox Graves
• Cordelia A. Greene (1831–1905), physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association.^[19]
• 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.^{[20] [21]}
• 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.^[22]
• Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck
• Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States.^[23]
• Mary Foote Henderson
• Ami Mali Hicks
• Margaret Hinchey
• 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.^[24]

I

• Maud Ingersoll Probasco

J

• Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906) – medical physician, teacher, scientist, and writer.^[25]
• Paula O. Jakobi
• Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.^[26]
• Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones."^[27]
• 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).^[28]
• Harriette A. Keyser (1841–1936) – industrial reformer, social worker, author; co-organizer, New York Woman Suffrage Association.^[29]
• Harriette A. Keyser
• Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt (1874–1961) – settlement house worker, socialist, and suffragist.^[30]
• Anna M. Kross

L

• Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community.^[31]
• Clara Lemlich
• Miriam Leslie (1836–1914) – publisher, author; namesake of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.^[32]
• 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.^[33]
• Hazel MacKaye
• Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye
• Theresa Malkiel
• Maud Malone
• Wenona Marlin (New York City).^[34]
• 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.^[35]
• 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.^[36]
• 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.^[37]
• Clara Louise Payne
• Mary Gray Peck.^[38]
• 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.^[39]
• 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.^[40]
• Eleanor Butler Sanders
• Rose Schneiderman
• Sylvia B. Seaman
• Alice Wiley Seay
• Nettie Rogers Shuler
• Elizabeth Smith Miller
• 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
• Katrina Ely Tiffany
• Elizabeth Richards Tilton

U

• Adelaide Underhill

V

• Amelie Veiller Van Norman
• Narcissa Cox Vanderlip
• Fanny Garrison Villard
• Oswald Garrison Villard -- member of the Men's League.^[41]

W

• Lillian Wald
• 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

• Laura M. Johns.^[42]

See also

• List of African American suffragists
• List of American suffragists

References

Sources

• Eastman . Max . Max Eastman . October 1912 . Early History of the Men's League . The Woman Voter . 3 . 9 . 17–18 . Internet Archive.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted . Ida Husted Harper . The History of Woman Suffrage . J.J. Little & Ives Company . 1922 . New York.
  • Miller . Sally M. . December 1978 . From Sweatshop Worker to Labor Leader: Theresa Malkiel, A Case Study . American Jewish History . 68 . 2 . 189–205 . 23881894.
• Book: Petrash, Antonia . Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement . The History Press . 2013 . 9781609497682 . London.

Notes and References

1. DuBois . Ellen Carol . 1987 . Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909 . The Journal of American History . en . 74 . 1 . 34–58 . 10.2307/1908504 . 0021-8723 . 1908504.
2. Web site: The record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc., 1917-1929 . 2024-04-16 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
3. News: 31 March 1943 . BELLE BE RIVERA, CLUB FOUNDER, DIE5.; Organizer and Ex-President of' N. Y, City Federatlon of' Women's Clubs Was 95 . 7 September 2023 . . 19 . en.
4. Web site: archives.nypl.org -- New York State Woman Suffrage Party records . 2024-04-16 . archives.nypl.org.
5. News: 26 September 1918 . Senators to Vote on Suffrage Today; Fate of Susan B. Anthony Amendment Hangs in Balance on Eve of Final Test . New York Times.
6. Web site: Kroeger . Brooke . Brooke Kroeger . 2018-03-16 . The little-known story of the men who fought for women's votes . 2020-10-12 . Medium . en.
7. Web site: Irene Moorman Blackstone - . 2024-07-31 . Archives of Women's Political Communication . en.
8. Web site: Marzell . Terry Lee . 6 September 2014 . Katherine Devereux Blake: Chalkboard Champion, Suffragist, and Peace Activist . 31 July 2024 . Chalkboard Champions.
9. Book: Hannan . Caryn . Illinois biographical dictionary . Herman . Jennifer L. . 2008 . State History Publications . 978-1878592606 . 2008-2009 . Hamburg, MI . 95–96 . 31 July 2024.
10. Book: Brown . Gertrude Foster . Your vote and how to use it . 1918 . Harper & Brothers . New York . verso . 31 July 2024.
11. Web site: "General" Rosalie Jones and the Suffrage Hikes . 2024-08-01 . New York Heritage.
12. Web site: Lucy Burns . 2024-08-01 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
13. Oaks . Jodi . Biography of Jennie Curtis (Mrs. Henry W.) Cannon, 1851-1929 . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 . Alexander Street.
14. News: November 11, 1907 . Mariana Wright Chapman. Death of a Woman of Much Influence in the Life and Thought of Brooklyn. . 1 August 2024 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 4 . Newspapers.com.
15. News: Scutts . Joanna . 2014-03-07 . 'The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in Gilded Age' by Myra MacPherson . 2 August 2024 . The Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
16. Web site: Thomas . Beth . Suffrage – Bristol . 2024-08-03 . Ontario County Historical Society . en-US.
17. Web site: Ida A. Craft, Brooklyn's Suffrage Pioneer . 2022-12-28 . Kingsborough Art Museum . en-US.
18. Web site: The Suffrage Cause and Bryn Mawr - American Speakers II . 2020-10-12 . Bryn Mawr.
19. Book: Gordon . Elizabeth Putnam . The Story of the Life and Work of Cordelia A. Greene, M.D. . 1925 . The Castilian . Castile, New York . en . 22 August 2022.
20. Web site: 7 February 1913 . Mount Airy: Home of Helen Hoy Greeley . 9 July 2018 . Piedmont Virginia Digital History: The Land Between the Rivers.
21. Web site: 21 August 2015 . Helen Hoy Greeley Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160423175148/http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/greeleyhh.html . 23 April 2016 . 9 July 2018 . Swarthmore Home.
22. News: Seligman . Edna . Longshoremen Interested in The Suffrage Question . 22.
23. 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.
24. Book: Goodier . Susan . Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State . Pastorello . Karen . 15 September 2017 . Cornell University Press . 978-1-5017-1319-4 . 126.
25. News: Denise Grady . 11 November 2013 . Honoring Female Pioneers in Science . 14 December 2014 . . Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, born in 1842 in London, grew up in New York and began publishing short stories at 17. But what she really wanted was to be a doctor. ....
26. Web site: Hester Jeffrey . http://web.archive.org/web/20160503071623/https://rrlc.org/winningthevote/biographies/hester-jeffrey/ . 3 May 2016 . February 11, 2016 . Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote.
27. Web site: Dr. "General" Rosalie Jones . 2024-09-23 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
28. Kearns . Marguerite Buckman . Biographical Sketch of Edna May Buckman Kearns . Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 . Alexander Street.
29. Book: The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ... . 1925 . Halvord Publishing Company . 2 . 211–16 . en . KEYSER, HARRIETTA AMELIA . 1 November 2022 . https://archive.org/details/biographicalcycl0002unse/page/211.
30. Web site: Pastorello . Karen . Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross . 27 August 2024 . American National Biography . en . 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.369357.
31. Tseng . Timothy . 1996 . Dr. Mabel Lee: The Intersticial Career of a Protestant Chinese American Woman, 1924–1950 . Presented at the 1996 Organization of American Historians Meeting.
32. Web site: Norcross . Jonathon . 2024-09-26 . New Museum Exhibit Focuses on Little-Known Saratoga Suffragette and Publisher . 2024-10-21 . Saratoga TODAY newspaper . en-US.
33. Miller (1978), pp. 200-201.
34. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7385275/suffrage_meeting_in_bay_ridge_1913/ "Suffrage at Bay Ridge"
35. Web site: Mary Ann M'Clintock . 26 October 2024 . Women's Rights National Historical Park New York . National Park Service.
36. News: 17 May 1935 . Miss Harriet Mills Dead in Syracuse . subscription . 26 October 2024 . . New York, N.Y. . 21 . LXXXIV . 28237.
37. Neuman . Johanna . July 2017 . Who Won Women's Suffrage? A Case for 'Mere Men' . The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era . en . 16 . 3 . 347–367 . 10.1017/S1537781417000081 . 1537-7814 . free.
38. Sloan . Marjorie . Biographical Sketch of Mary Gray Peck . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 . Alexander Street.
39. Web site: Alexander . Adele Logan . Roberts, Ruth Logan . February 6, 2016 . Religion and Community. Facts On File, 1997. African-American History Online. Sourced from Book: Facts on File encyclopedia of Black women in America . . 1997 . 9780816034246 . Hine . Darlene Clark . Darlene Clark Hine . New York, NY . 906768602 . Thompson . Kathleen . Kathleen Thompson.
40. Wirth . Thomas . Banks . Jennifer . Biographical Sketch of Nina Samorodin . Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 . Alexander Street.
41. Web site: Reynolds . Eileen . 2017-09-05 . These powerful men were humble allies for women's vote . 2020-10-12 . Futurity . en-US.
42. Web site: 2020-03-11 . Salinan part of Kansas Museum of History exhibit . 2024-09-15 . Salina Post.