List of Iowa suffragists

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.^[1]
Boone Equality Club.^[2]
Chariton Equal Suffrage Society.^[3]
Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912.^[4]
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), formed as the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA) in 1870.^[5]^[6]
Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.^[7]
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (IFWC).^[2]
Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society.^[8]
Men's League for Women's Suffrage, organized in 1910.^[9]
Men's League of Perry.^[10]
Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.^[2]
Political Equality Club of Sioux City, formed in 1889.^[11]
Polk County Suffrage Association.^[7]
Waterloo Suffragette Council.^[12]
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).^[2]

Suffragists

Mary Newbury Adams.^[13]
Teresa Adams (Davenport).^[2]
Adelaide Ballard.^[14]
Mary A. Beavers (Mount Pleasant).^[15]
Evelyn H. Belden.^[16]
Narcissa T. Bemis.^[5]
Amelia Bloomer (Council Bluffs).^[9]
Sue M. Wilson Brown (Des Moines).^[7]^[2]
Martha C. Callanan.^[17]
Margaret W. Campbell.^[5]
Carrie Chapman Catt (Charles City).^[9]
Nettie Sanford Chapin (Marshalltown).^[15]
Mary Jane Coggeshall.^[13]
Fannie Wilson Cooper (Des Moines).^[18]
Mary Darwin (Burlington).^[19]
Keziah Anderson Dorrance (Taylor County).^[20]
Helen Downey.^[7]
Joseph Dugdale (Mount Pleasant).^[21]^[22]
Marion Howard Dunham (Burlington).^[23]
Flora Dunlap (Des Moines).^[24]
Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919).^[25]
Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) (Sioux City).^[26]
Matilda Fletcher (Council Bluffs).^[27]
Mariana Thompson Folsom.^[5]
Alvah and Martha Frisbie
Eleanor Gordon (Boone).^[28]^[2]
Eliza H. Hunter.^[29]
Caroline Ingham (Kossuth County).^[30]
Harvey Ingham (Kossuth County).^[30]
Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – Universalist minister and suffragist.^[31]
Grace Morris Allen Jones (Burlington).^[32]
Jennie A. Kilburne (Adair County).^[33]
Anna B. Lawther (Dubuque).^[34]
James Rush Lincoln.^[35]
Mabel Lodge (Cedar Falls).^[36]
Arabella Mansfield.^[13]
Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist.^[37]
Jane Amy McKinney.^[5]
Carrie Dean Pruyn.^[38]
Lizzie Bunnell Read (Algona).^[30]
Gertrude Rush.^[7]
Mary Safford.^[28]
Anna H. Satterly.^[39]
Annie Nowlin Savery (Des Moines).^[40]
Vivian Smith^[7]
Rowena Edson Stevenson (Boone).^[2]
Adeline Morrison Swain.^[13]
Mary Beaumont Welch (Ames).^[41]
Alda Heaton Wilson.^[42]
Henrietta Wilson (Dubuque).^[43]
Mattie Woods.^[7]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

Cyrus C. Carpenter.^[44]
William L. Harding.^[45]
William Larrabee.^[46]
Benjamin F. Murray (Winterset).^[47]
Henry O'Connor.^[21]
William G. Wilson (Davis County).^[48]

Publications

Woman's Standard, created in 1886.^[35]

Suffragists campaigning in Iowa

See also

References

^ Boyd 2018, p. 29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Women's Suffrage in Iowa". Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Iowa State University. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
^ Egge 2009, p. 31.
^ Hoskins, Danielle. "Biographical Sketch of Sue M. Wilson Brown, 1877-1941". Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Anthony 1902, p. 628.
^ Egge 2009, p. 33.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Toward A Universal Suffrage: Profiles of Courage". Central Iowa Community Museum. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "READ, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bunnell". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 600–01. Retrieved March 23, 2024 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Iowans in the Suffrage Movement". Greater Des Moines Partnership. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
^ Egge 2009, p. 43.
^ Noun 1969, p. 233.
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^ ^a ^b Noun 1969, p. 95.
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^ Hoskins, Danielle. "Biographical Sketch of Fannie Wilson Cooper". Alexander Street. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
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^ ^a ^b Egge 2009, p. 9.
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^ "Woman's Days at Iowa Fairs". The Woman's Column. V (30). American Woman Suffrage Association: 159. 1892. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
^ "Suffragist Flora Dunlap". Iowa PBS. February 25, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
^ Daughters of the American Revolution 1908, p. 23.
^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary H. (Mary Hannah); Elliott, Mary Elvira; Stimpson, Mary A.; Hoyt, Martha Seavey (1904). "Susan Breese Snowden Fessenden". Sketches of representative women of New England. Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co. pp. 391–93. Retrieved August 6, 2022 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Noun 1969, p. 127.
^ ^a ^b "Suffragists Gordon and Safford". Iowa PBS. March 25, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
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^ ^a ^b ^c Noun 1969, p. 120.
^ Cristoforo, Genna. "Biographical Sketch of Effie McCollum Jones". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
^ Benkowich, Allyn; Corey, Kristen. "Grace Morris Allen Jones". Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
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^ Waterbury, Robert (March 23, 2021). "Women's Suffrage Event Spotlights Dubuque Native Anna Lawther". Loras College Daily. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Anthony 1902, p. 629.
^ Hartman, Hayley. "Biographical Sketch of Mabel Lodge". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
^ Watson 1896, p. 729.
^ Schwarzkopf, Mikki (September 10, 2020). "ALL VOTES MATTER". The Jefferson Herald. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
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^ Noun 1969, p. 91.
^ "Mary Beaumont Welch". Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
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^ Catt & Shuler 1923, p. 213.
^ Catt & Shuler 1923, p. 225.
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^ Noun 1969, p. 85.
^ Noun 1969, p. 87.
^ ^a ^b Harper 1922, p. 184.
^ Noun 1969, p. 97.
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^ Noun 1969, p. 138.
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