List of Illinois suffragists
This is a list of Illinois suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Illinois.
Groups
- Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913.[1]
- Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910.[2]
- Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894.[3][4]
- Chicago Teachers' Federation.[5]
- Chicago Woman's Club.[6]
- Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society.[7]
- Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888.[8]
- Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in 1900.[6]
- Earlville Suffrage Association, formed in 1855.[9]
- Ella Flagg Young Club.[5]
- Illinois Equal Franchise Society.[10]
- Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.[11]
- Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.[6]
- Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA).[12][13][14]
- Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909.[15]
- Naperville Equal Suffrage Club, created in 1888.[16]
- National Woman's Party.[17]
- The Ossoli Club, formed in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1894.[18]
- Sorosis.[19]
- Springfield Suffrage Association.[20]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Illinois.[3]
- Women's Trade Union League (WTUL).[21]
Suffragists
- Sadie Lewis Adams (Chicago).[22]
- Jane Addams.[23]
- Mary A. Ahrens (Chicago).[24]
- Royal Allen.[25]
- Susan E. Allen Cannon (Galesburg).[26]
- Naomi Talbert Anderson (Chicago).[27]
- Susan Look Avery (Chicago).[6]
- Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer. (Chicago).[28]
- Eugenia M. Bacon.[15]
- Laura Beasley (Chicago).[29]
- Ella G. Berry (Chicago).[30]
- Kizziah J. Bills (Chicago).[31]
- Anna Blount (Oak Park).[32]
- Elizabeth K. Booth (Glencoe).[33]
- Louise DeKoven Bowen (Chicago).[27]
- Myra Colby Bradwell.[34]
- Sophonisba Breckinridge (Chicago).[35]
- Virginia Brooks (Chicago).[36]
- Adella Maxwell Brown (Peoria).[37]
- Laura Robinson Campbell (East St. Louis)[38]
- Agnes Chase.[27]
- Mary C. Clarke (Chicago).[39]
- George E. Cole (Chicago).[15]
- Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward (Chicago).[6]
- Prudence Crandall.[19]
- Caroline Bartlett Crane (Chicago).[40]
- Gertrude Crocker (Hinsdale).[27]
- Ruth Crocker (Hinsdale).[27]
- Susan Lawrence Dana (Sangamon County).[20]
- Cornelia De Bey (Chicago).[41]
- Margaret Dobyne.[42]
- Kate N. Doggett (Chicago).[43]
- Elvira Downey (Clinton).[8]
- Ida Darling Engelke (Chicago).[44]
- Elizabeth Hawley Everett (Highland Park).[45]
- Lucy H. Ewing (Chicago).[27]
- Janet Kellogg Fairbank (Chicago).[46]
- Samuel Fallows (Chicago).[47]
- Clara M. Farson (St. Charles).[48]
- Henry B. Favill (Chicago).[47]
- Lucy Flower.[49]
- Antoinette Funk (Chicago).[17]
- Sophie Gibb (Decatur).[8]
- Catherine Goggin (Chicago).[5]
- Harriet Grim (Chicago).[8]
- Emily M. Gross.[6]
- Alonzo Jackson Grover (Earlville).[50]
- Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Evanston).[34][5]
- Margaret Haley (Chicago).[5]
- Effie Henderson (Bloomington).[51]
- Mary Emma Holmes (Chicago)[52]
- Carrie S. Cook Horton (Chicago).[53]
- Kate Hughes (Table Grove).[54][49]
- Alta Hulett.[34]
- Adelaide Johnson.[55]
- Carrie Ashton Johnson (Rockford).[56]
- Mary Jane Richardson Jones (Chicago).[57]
- Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Chicago).[47]
- Florence E. Kollock (Chicago).[58]
- Mary H. Krout (Chicago).[56]
- Maydie Spaulding Lee (Springfield).[20]
- Lena Morrow Lewis (Chicago).[59]
- Mary Livermore.[19]
- Elizabeth F. Long (Barry).[5]
- Judith Weil Loewenthal (Chicago).[44]
- Andrew MacLeish (Chicago).[47]
- Anna A. Maley.[60]
- Ellen A. Martin (Lombard).[14]
- Mary Mather (Sangamon County).[20]
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Evanston).[61]
- J. Howard Moore (Chicago).[62]
- Mary Foulke Morrisson (Chicago).[63]
- Henry Neil (Chicago).[47]
- Agnes Nestor (Chicago).[13]
- Anna E. Nicholes (Chicago).[15][64]
- S. Grace Nicholes (Chicago).[65]
- Maude Gregg Palmer (Springfield).[20]
- Fannie H. Rastall.[56]
- Harriet Reed (Springfield).[20]
- Susan Hoxie Richardson (Earlville).[19]
- Mabel Sippy (Chicago).[18]
- Julia Holmes Smith.[49]
- Eva Munson Smith.[56]
- Elmira E. Springer.[15]
- Belle Squire (Chicago).[36]
- Ida Staggall.[66]
- Helen Ekin Starrett (Chicago).
- Ella S. Stewart.[10][60]
- Mary Thomas.[67]
- Helen Todd (Chicago).[68]
- Grace Wilbur Trout (Oak Park).[69]
- Elsie Unterman (Chicago).[27]
- Mary L. Walker.[70]
- Clara Barck Welles (Chicago).[71]
- Ida B. Wells (Chicago).[27]
- Frances Willard.[19]
- Fannie Barrier Williams (Chicago).[27]
- Jennie Willing (Rockford).[72]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Martin B. Bailey.[73]
- Charles Bogardus.[3]
- James Bradwell.[34]
- Charles H. Carmon (Forrest).[74]
- Orrin N. Carter.[75]
- Miles B. Castle.[59]
- Albert C. Clark.[73]
- Michael H. Cleary.[73]
- William A. Compton.[73]
- Reuben W. Coon.[76]
- John M. Curran.[74]
- Edward C. Curtis.[73]
- George W. Curtis.[3]
- Samuel A. Ettelson.[73]
- Isaiah T. Greenacre.[44]
- George W. Harris.[73]
- Logan Hay.[73]
- Hugh S. Magill.[73]
- Walter Clyde Jones.[73]
- Kent E. Keller.[73]
- Walter I. Manny.[73]
- Medill McCormick.[74]
- Willard McEwen.[44]
- Thomas J. McMillan.[15]
- Fayette S. Munro (Highland Park).[74]
- Barratt O'Hara.[73]
- W. Duff Piercy.[73]
- Murray F. Tuley.[15]
- Richards S. Tuthill.[47]
- Emil N. Zolla (Chicago).[74]
Places
- Leland Hotel (Springfield).[4]
- Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago).[77]
Publications
- The Agitator, created in 1869.[78]
Suffragists campaigning in Illinois
- Susan B. Anthony.[79]
- Henry B. Blackwell.[80]
- Celia Burleigh.[80]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[59]
- Miriam M. Cole.[80]
- Phoebe Couzins.[80]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[59]
- Margaret Foley.[81]
- Helen M. Gougar.[59]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[59]
- Isabella Beecher Hooker.[80]
- Julia Ward Howe.[80]
- Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.[82]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[40]
- Lilly Peckham.[80]
- Mary Whitney Phelps.[79]
- Parker Pillsbury.[80]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[59]
- Ethel Snowden.[40]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[79]
- Lucy Stone.[59]
- Mabel Vernon.[83]
- Zerelda G. Wallace.[59]
Anti-suffragists
Groups
People
- Anton J. Cermak (Chicago).[84]
- Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago).[8]
- Levy Mayer (Chicago).[85]
- Emma Susan Gillett Oglesby (Elkhart).[51]
- S. M. Nickerson[86]
- J. C. Fairfield[86]
- Geo. W. Smith[86]
- Ralph N. Isham[86]
- A. T. Galt[86]
- WM. Eliot Furness[86]
- Francis Lackner[86]
- Mary Pomeroy Green[86]
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Illinois
- Women's suffrage in Illinois
- Women's suffrage in states of the United States
- Women's suffrage in the United States
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