List of Maine suffragists
This is a list of Maine suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Maine.
Groups
- Bangor Suffrage Center[1]
- Belfast Suffrage League, formed in 1916[2]
- College Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1913[3]
- Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and later, National Woman's Party[4]
- Cumberland County Convention of Reformed Men[5]
- Equal Rights Association of Rockland, formed in 1868[6]
- Farmington Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1906[7]
- Maine Federation of Women's Clubs (MFWC)[8]
- Maine Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1873[9]
- The Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1914[10]
- Portland Equal Franchise League[11]
- Woman Suffrage Association of Portland[12]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), first Maine chapter formed in 1874[13]
Suffragists
- Sophia P. Anthoine (Portland)[14][15]
- Jane Sophia Appleton (Bangor)[16][17]
- Hannah Johnston Bailey (Winthrop)[18]
- Katherine Reed Balentine (Portland)[19]
- Camille Lessard Bissonnette (Lewiston)[20]
- Henry Blanchard (Portland)[9]
- Ralph O. Brewster[3]
- Margaret W. Campbell (Hancock County)[21]
- Essie P. Carle (Belfast)[22]
- Sarah G. Crosby (Albion)[23]
- Lucy Hobart Day[24]
- Lydia Neal Dennett (Portland)[25]
- Adelaide Emerson (Ellsworth)[23]
- Fannie J. Fernald (Old Orchard)[26][7]
- Jennie Fuller (Hartland)[11]
- Abby F. Fulton[7]
- Obadiah Gardner (Augusta)[11]
- Ann F. Jarvis Greely (Ellsworth)[27]
- Isabel Greenwood (Farmington)[28]
- Ira G. Hersey (Houlton)[28]
- Jane Lord Hersom.[29]
- Charlotte Hill (Ellsworth)[27]
- Augusta Merrill Hunt (Portland)[14]
- Benjamin Kingsbury (Portland)[30]
- Deborah Knox Livingston (Bangor)[31]
- Clara Hapgood Nash[32]
- John Neal (Portland)[33]
- Joshua Nye (Augusta)[30]
- Sarah Jane Lincoln O'Brion (Cornish)[34]
- Maud Wood Park (Cape Elizabeth)[31]
- Leonard A. Pierce (Portland)[11]
- Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (Penobscot) (Indian Island)[20]
- Louise Johnson Pratt (Belfast)[2]
- Cordelia A. Quinby (Augusta)[7]
- Olive Rose (Warren)[35]
- Leslie R. Rounds[3]
- Lurana W. Sheldon.[36]
- Lavinia Snow (Rockland)[27]
- Lucy Snow (Rockland)[27]
- Sophronia Snow (Hampden)[34]
- Jane H. Spofford (Hampden)[34]
- Lillian M. N. Stevens (Portland)[18]
- Zenas Thompson (Portland)[11]
- Rebecca Usher (Hollis)[34]
- L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace[3][37]
- Florence Brooks Whitehouse (Augusta)[38]
- Robert Treat Whitehouse[3]
- William Penn Whitehouse (Augusta)[11]
- Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten[39]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates[7]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage in Maine
Suffragists who campaigned in Maine
- Susan B. Anthony[41]
- Abby Scott Baker[42]
- Henry B. Blackwell[9]
- Carrie Chapman Catt[26]
- Elizabeth Glendower Evans[14]
- Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale[43]
- Diana Hirschler[24]
- Julia Ward Howe[35]
- Augusta Hughston[3]
- Florence Kelley[44]
- Gail Laughlin[38]
- Dora Lewis[40]
- Mary Livermore[9]
- Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell[45][2]
- Maud Wood Park[14]
- Nancy M. Schoonmaker[46]
- Anna Howard Shaw[9]
- Lucy Stone[9]
- Mary Winsor[42]
Anti-suffragists
Groups
People
- Harriet Bird (Yarmouth)[28]
- Sophia C. Brackett (Portland)[47]
- Susannah Bundy Brown (Portland)[48]
- Lucy Cobb (Rockland)[2]
- Margaret L. Dalton (Portland)[48]
- C. T. Ogden (Deering)[49]
- Sewall C. Strout (Portland)[49]
References
- ^ Toothman, Delania. "Biographical Sketch of Deborah Knox Livingston". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ a b c d O'Brien, Andy (January 17, 2019). "They Petitioned, They Protested, They Went to Jail & They Won". The Free Press. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Harper 1922, p. 237.
- ^ "Florence Brooks Whitehouse". ACLU of Maine. March 25, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 101.
- ^ O'Brien, Andy (January 3, 2019). "When Maine Suffragists Fought for Their Right to Vote". The Free Press. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "The Maine Woman Suffrage Association". Maine State Museum. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 240.
- ^ a b c d e f Anthony 1902, p. 689.
- ^ a b "Maine and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Harper 1922, p. 247.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 162.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 65.
- ^ a b c d Harper 1922, p. 238.
- ^ Neises, Amy. "Biographical Sketch of Sara P. Anthoine". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 87.
- ^ Neises, Amy R. "Biographical Sketch of Jane Sophia Appleton". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Alexander Street. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
- ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 4.
- ^ Maine State Museum 2019, p. 9.
- ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 10.
- ^ O'Brien, Andy (January 10, 2019). "Maine Women Continue the Fight for Voting Rights & Fair Treatment". The Free Press. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ "Rush to Register". Maine State Museum. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
- ^ a b Risk 2009, p. 92.
- ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 690.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 88.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 236.
- ^ a b c d Maine State Museum 2019, p. 3.
- ^ a b c d Maine State Museum 2019, p. 6.
- ^ This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America. Vol. 1 (Public domain ed.). New York City: American Commonwealth Company.
- ^ a b Day, Lucy H.; Bates, Helen N.; Anthoine, Sara P. (2018). "Historical Sketch of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association". League of Women Voters Mrs Wing's Scrapbook. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
- ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 8.
- ^ Maine State Museum 2019, p. 5.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 70.
- ^ a b c d Maine State Museum 2019, p. 2.
- ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 1.
- ^ Jeffery, Keith (January 26, 2016). 1916: A Global History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-62040-271-9.
- ^ Assogba, Anna. "Biographical Sketch of L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 7.
- ^ Hough, Mazie. "Biographical Sketch of Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ a b Gass 2011, p. 55.
- ^ "Connecting Ellsworth and the Nation". Maine State Museum. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- ^ a b Gass 2011, p. 49.
- ^ Spiker 2012, p. 22.
- ^ Gass 2011, p. 42.
- ^ De Sa e Silva, Pascale; O'Neill, Nora. "Biographical Sketch of Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 245.
- ^ Risk 2009, p. 131.
- ^ a b Risk 2009, p. 130.
- ^ a b Risk 2009, p. 129.
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Maine
- Women's suffrage in Maine
- Women's suffrage in states of the United States
- Women's suffrage in the United States
Sources
- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Gass, Anne (October 2011). "Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Vote to Ratify Women's Suffrage in 1919". Maine History. 46 (1): 38–66.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Maine State Museum (2019). "Maine Suffrage Who's Who" (PDF). Women's Long Road.
- Risk, Shannon M. (2009). 'In Order to Establish Justice': The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movements of Maine and New Brunswick (Thesis). University of Maine. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.428.3747.
- Spiker, LaRue (2012). "Women Got the Vote Fifty Years Ago" (PDF). Chebacco. 13: 21–27.