List of Missouri suffragists
This is a list of Missouri suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Missouri.
Groups
- Carthage Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1897.[1]
- Columbia Equal Suffrage Association.[2]
- Equal Suffrage Association of Kansas City, led by Kersey Coates and formed in 1892.[3][4]
- Federated Colored Women's Clubs.[5]
- Jackson County Suffrage Association, formed in 1918.[6]
- Kansas City Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1911.[7]
- Kansas City Woman's League, formed in 1914.[8]
- Marysville Ladies Marching Band.[9]
- Missouri Equal Suffrage Association (MESA) formed in 1895.[10]
- Political Equality Club of Warrensburg, formed in 1911.[11]
- St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League, formed in 1912.[12]
- St. Louis County Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1870.[13]
- St. Louis Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1910.[14]
- Wednesday Club, formed in 1890 by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Eliot.[15]
- Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri, formed in St. Louis in May 1867.[16]
Suffragists
- Penelope Allen (St. Louis).[16]
- Libbie C. Anthony (Jefferson City).[17]
- Annie White Baxter (Jasper County).[18]
- Emily Newell Blair (Jasper County).[19]
- Martha H. Brinkerhoff.[20]
- Margaret Burke (St. Louis).[12]
- Marie Ruoff Byrum (Hannibal).[21]
- Julia Shipley Carroll (St. Louis)
- Anna Clapp (St. Louis).[2]
- Sarah Chandler Coates (Kansas City).[22]
- Myrtle Foster Cook (Kansas City).[23]
- Adaline Couzins (St. Louis).[24]
- Phoebe Couzins (St. Louis).[2]
- Phoebe Jane Ess (Kansas City).[2]
- Edna Gellhorn (St. Louis).[25]
- Lucretia Hall (St. Louis).[16]
- Ella Harrison (Carthage).[26][27]
- Rosa Russell Ingels (Columbia).[28]
- Victoria Clay Haley (St. Louis).[5]
- Rebecca Hazard (St. Louis).[16]
- Virginia Hedges (Warrensburg).[29]
- Ida Joyce Jackson (Jefferson City).[30]
- Frances C. Jenkins (Kansas City)[31]
- Addie M. Johnson.[32]
- Marguerite Martyn (St. Louis).[14]
- Helen Guthrie Miller (Columbia).[2]
- Francis Minor (St. Louis).[33]
- Virginia Minor (St. Louis).[16]
- Jessie Moller (St. Louis).[12]
- Ella Moffatt.[34]
- Luella Wilcox St. Clair Moss (Columbia).[2]
- Alma Nash (Marysville).[9]
- Kate Richards O'Hare (St. Louis).[35]
- Barbara Blackman O'Neil (St. Louis).[2]
- Mary Whitney Phelps.[36]
- Florence Wyman Richardson (St. Louis).[2]
- Cecilia Razovsky (St. Louis).[12]
- Alma Gibson Robb (St. Louis).[12]
- Charlotte Rumbold (St. Louis).[12]
- Laura Runyon (Warrensburg).[37]
- Mary Semple Scott (St. Louis).[38]
- Martha Taaffe (Jasper County).[26]
- Clara Louise Thompson (St. Louis).[39]
- Genevieve Tierney (St. Louis).[12]
- Alice Curtice Moyer Wing (St. Louis).[40]
- Victoria Conkling Whitney (St. Louis).[1]
- Fannie C. Williams (St. Louis).[41]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
Publications
- The Missouri Woman.[44]
Places
Suffragists who campaigned in Missouri
- Jane Addams.[28]
- Susan B. Anthony.[47]
- Ethel Arnold.[2]
- Florence Balgarnie.[22]
- Henry Blackwell.[32]
- Mary C. C. Bradford.[32]
- Madeline McDowell Breckenridge.[28]
- Mary Waldo Calkins.[34]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[2]
- Marion Cole.[48]
- Hannah Cutler.[49]
- Dorothy Dix.[28]
- Margaret Foley.[50]
- Clara C. Hoffman.[22]
- Julia Ward Howe.[47]
- Mary Seymour Howell.[22]
- Laura M. Johns.[51]
- Mary Livermore.[52]
- Anne Henrietta Martin.[28]
- Lucia Ames Mead.[53]
- Lena Morrow.[34]
- Emmeline Pankhurst, invited.[2][53]
- Sylvia Pankhurst.[37]
- Frances Squire Potter.[53]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[2]
- Anna R. Simmons.[32]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[2]
- Lucy Stone.[54]
- Charles Burlingame Waite.[48]
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Missouri
- Women's suffrage in Missouri
- Women's suffrage in the United States
References
- ^ a b Morris 1930, p. 79.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft". University of Missouri. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 26-27.
- ^ McBride 1920, p. 320.
- ^ a b Shea, Neil (2017). "Biographical Sketch of Victoria Clay Haley". Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
- ^ McBride 1920, p. 324.
- ^ McBride 1920, p. 321.
- ^ McBride 1920, p. 322.
- ^ a b "Alma Nash & Her Band". Missouri Women. November 16, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ Morris 1930, p. 77.
- ^ Runyon 1920, p. 380.
- ^ a b c d e f g Weigle, Florence E. (1920). "St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 384.
- ^ "Woman Suffrage Call". The Missouri Republican. May 27, 1870. p. 2. Retrieved September 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b O'Neil, Tim (June 7, 2016). "Events will remember suffragists who lined Locust Street in demonstration 100 years ago". STLtoday.com. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 26.
- ^ a b c d e "Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri Formed". St. Louis Historic Preservation. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ "Biographical Sketch of Libbie (Libby) C. Anthony". Alexander Street. Retrieved March 23, 2023.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 28.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 21.
- ^ Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. p. 97. ISBN 0813816025.
- ^ O'Connor, Candace (1994). "Women Who Led the Way". Missouri Almanac, 1993-94. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Anthony 1902, p. 790.
- ^ Yunker, Jordan; Fabbri, Lia (2017). "Biographical Sketch of Myrtle Foster Cook, 1870-1951". Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 24.
- ^ "Missouri and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ a b Van Es 2014, p. 2.
- ^ Morris 1930, p. 78.
- ^ a b c d e Ingels 1920, p. 382.
- ^ Morris 1930, p. 76.
- ^ Lopez, Noah (2020). "Biographical Sketch of Ida Joyce Jackson". Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
- ^ "END TO MRS. FRANCES JENKINS". The Kansas City Star. December 14, 1915. p. 9. Retrieved October 15, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Anthony 1902, p. 791.
- ^ Anderson, Caiti (April 22, 2016). "Minor v. Happersett: The Supreme Court and Women's Suffrage". State of Elections. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ a b c Anthony 1902, p. 792.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 29.
- ^ "Two Opposing Conventions in Conclave this Morning". Chicago Evening Post. February 11, 1869. p. 4. Retrieved October 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Atkinson 1920, p. 302.
- ^ Scott 1920, p. 374.
- ^ "Suffrage Notes". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. November 2, 1913. p. 41. Retrieved June 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Alice Curtice Moyer Wing and Woman Suffrage in the Ozarks, 1916-1919". Missouri Women. December 23, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Jones, Martha S. (August 7, 2020). "For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn't end their fight to vote". National Geographic. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Morris 1930, p. 68.
- ^ Van Es 2014, p. 58.
- ^ Driscoll, Carol (July 2020). "Emily Newell Blair: Missouri's Suffragette". Missouri Life. 47 (5): 40–43 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ "Woman Suffrage". The Missouri Republican. October 8, 1869. p. 2. Retrieved September 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Female Suffrage Movement Organized for Missouri". Lancaster Excelsior. June 15, 1867. p. 2. Retrieved September 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Virginia Minor". Historic Missourians - The State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ a b Fordyce 1920, p. 290.
- ^ O'Neil, Tim (November 19, 2011). "A Look Back • Suffragists meet in St. Louis in 1872". STLtoday.com. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
- ^ "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ "Salinan part of Kansas Museum of History exhibit". Salina Post. March 11, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2024.
- ^ "Lecture by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore". The Missouri Republican. February 4, 1871. p. 2. Retrieved September 24, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Atkinson 1920, p. 301.
- ^ Cooperman, Jeannette (April 28, 2020). "St. Louis suffragists played a key role in advocating for the 19th Amendment 100 years ago". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
Sources
- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Atkinson, Florence (1920). "'Middle Ages' of Equal Suffrage in Missouri". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 299–306.
- Fordyce, Christine Orrick (1920). "Early Beginnings". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 288–299.
- Ingels, Rosa Russell (1920). "Woman Suffrage in Columbia". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 381–383.
- McBride, Mrs. Thomas (1920). "The Part of the Kansas City Equal Suffrage League in the Campaign for Equal Suffrage". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 320–327.
- Morris, Monia Cook (October 1930). "The History of Woman Suffrage in Missouri, 1867-1901". Missouri Historical Review. 25 (1): 67–82.
- Runyon, Laura L. (1920). "Woman Suffrage in Warrensburg". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 380–381.
- Scott, Mary Semple (1920). "The Missouri Woman". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 372–377.
- Van Es, Mark A. (April 2014). Peculiar History of Women's Suffrage in Jasper County, Missouri (Master of Arts thesis). Pittsburg State University.