List of Wisconsin suffragists

This is a list of Wisconsin suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Wisconsin.

Groups

Woman's Club of Baraboo Wisconsin, 1880

• Centralia Equal Suffrage Association, founded in 1882.[1]
• Grand Rapids Equal Suffrage Association, founded in 1882.[1]
• Madison Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), founded in 1879.[1]
• Marathon County Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1879.[1]
• Men's League for Women's Suffrage, formed in 1911.[2]
• Mukwonago Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1880.[1]
• National Woman's Party branch, founded in 1917.[1]
• Olympic Club, founded in 1882 in Milwaukee.[1]
• Political Equality League, formed in 1911.[3]
• Political Equality League, African American branch in Milwaukee.[4]
• Richland Center Women's Club, organized in 1870.[5]
• South Side Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1882 in Milwaukee.[1]
• Whitewater Woman Suffrage Club, founded in 1882.[1]
• Woman's Club of Baraboo, Wisconsin.[6]
• Woman Suffrage Association at Mosinee, founded in 1882.[1]
• Woman Suffrage Association of Wisconsin (WSAW), founded in 1869.[1] Later, in 1882, it is known as the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association (WWSA).[1]

Suffragists

"Bloomer Girls" support women's suffrage, c. 1903

• Mathilde Franziska Anneke (Milwaukee).[7]
• Harriet Bain (Kenosha).[8]
• Stella Baker (Suffragist) (Dexterville).[8]
• Emma Curtiss Bascom (Madison).[8]
• John Bascom (Madison).[8]
• Mary W. Bentley (Marathon).[8]
• Meta Berger (Milwaukee).[9]
• Emma Brown (Fort Atkinson).[1][10]
• Olympia Brown (Racine).[11]
• Vie H. Campbell (Evansville).[8]
• Carrie Chapman Catt (Ripon).[7]
• Augusta Chapin (Milwaukee).[12]
• Helen Holmes Charleton (Broadhead).[8]
• Edna Phillips Chynoweth (Madison).[8]
• Clara Bewick Colby (Madison).[11]
• Alice B. Curtis (Milwaukee).[8]
• James Densmore (Oshkosh).[13]
• Mary A. Derrick (Brodhead).[8]
• Emma Smith DeVoe.[8]
• Martha Parker Dingee (Racine).[14][15]
• Nellie Donaldson.[16]
• Marion V. Dudley (Milwaukee).[8]
• Almah Jane Frisby (Milwaukee).[8]
• Zona Gale (Portage).[7]
• Lavinia Goodell (Janesville).[8]
• Hattie Tyng Griswold (Columbus).[8]
• Sophie Gudden (Grand Rapids).[8]
• Helen H. Haight (Waukesha).[7]
• Alura Collins Hollister (Mukwonago).[8]
• Jessie Jack Hooper (Oshkosh).[11]
• Carrie S. Cook Horton (Milwaukee).[4]
• Ada James (Richland Center).[17][11]
• Laura Briggs James (Richland Center).[8]
• Sarah James (Oshkosh).[8]
• Rachel Szold Jastrow (Madison).[18]
• Charlotte Jordan (Kenosha).[8]
• Mabel Judd (Lancaster).[8]
• Angie King (Janesville).[8]
• Georgiana J. Koppke (Baraboo).[8]
• Belle Case La Follette (Summit, Baraboo, Madison).[11]
• Fola La Follette (Madison).[19]

  

  Belle Case La Follette speaking in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, in 1915

• Lucinda Lake (Juda).[8]
• Jessie Luther (Madison).[8]
• Henry Doty Maxon (Menominee).[20]
• Maud Leonard McCreery (Green Bay).[8]
• Helen Farnsworth Mears (Oshkosh).[21]
• Sarah Munro (Milwaukee).[8]
• Meda Neubecker (Waukesha).[8]
• Helen R. Olin (Madison).[8]
• Nellie Mann Opdale (La Crosse).[22]
• Hanna Patchin (New London).[8]
• Mary G. Pearce (Milwaukee).[8]
• Lila Peckham (Milwaukee).[1]
• Nora Perkins (Milwaukee).[8]
• Susan Miller Quackenbush (Portage).[23]
• Sarah A. Richards (Milwaukee).[8]
• Emma Robinson (Kenosha).[8]
• Jane Rogers (Milwaukee).[8]
• Ellen Alida Rose.[24]
• Lutie Stearns (Milwaukee).[7]
• Sophie Stathearn (Kaukauna).[8]
• Vandalia Varnum Thomas.[25]
• Mary Swain Wagner (Milwaukee).[8]
• Frances McDonnell Wentworth (Racine).[8]
• Pauline Wies (Milwaukee).[26]
• Gwendolen Brown Willis (Milwaukee).[8]
• Eliza Wilson (Menomonee).[8]
• Belle Winestine (Madison).[27]
• Laura Ross Wolcott (Milwaukee).[11]
• Edna Wright (Milwaukee).[8]
• Theodora W. Youmans (Waukesha).[28]

Politicians who supported women's suffrage

• David Cooper Ayres (Howard) 1872 Wisconsin Blue Book "Universal Suffrage, (Female inclusive)"
• Victor L. Berger (Milwaukee).[29]
• John T. Dow [30]
• Lucius Fairchild.[31]
• Hamilton H. Gray (Lafayette County).[32]
• David G. James (Richland Center).[8]
• Robert La Follette.[33]
• William C. Whitford [34]

Places

• Jessie Jack Hooper House.[35]

Publications

• Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung.[36]
• Oshkosh True Democrat.[1]
• Southport Telegraph.[1]
• Wisconsin Chief.[1][37]
• Wisconsin Citizen.[1]

Suffragists campaigning in Wisconsin

• Susan B. Anthony.[34]
• Henry Browne Blackwell.[1]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.[38]
• Emma Smith DeVoe.[39]
• Crystal Eastman.[8]
• Margaret Foley.[40]
• Lydia Folger Fowler.[1]
• Harriet Grim.[41]
• Mary E. Haggart.[20]
• Elizabeth Boynton Harbert.[42]
• Julia Ward Howe.[20]
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.[43]
• Mary Livermore.[34]
• Alice Ball Loomis.[16]
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch.[42]
• Clarina I. H. Nichols.[1]
• Maud Wood Park.[16]
• Elizabeth Lyle Saxon.[42]
• May Wright Sewall.[20]
• Anna Howard Shaw.[20]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[34]
• Lucy Stone.[1]
• Alice L. Thompson Waytes.[4][44]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Wisconsin
• Women's suffrage in Wisconsin
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

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3. Harper 1922, p. 700-701.
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6. WHS 2020, p. 7.
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11. WHS 2020, p. 2.
12. McBride 1993, p. 46.
13. Youmans 1921, p. 5.
14. Anthony 1902, p. 988.
15. Meldrum, Monica. "Biographical Sketch of Martha Parker Dingee". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Archived from the original on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2021-01-09 – via Alexander Street.
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17. Bower, Jerry L. (April 2013). "A Biographical Sketch of Ada James" (PDF). The Akey Brakey News: a bi-annual newsletter from the Richland County Historical Society. Vol. 5, no. 1. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
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27. "Suffragists in Wisconsin". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. 2017-07-31. Archived from the original on 2020-12-09. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
28. WHS 2020, p. 10.
29. McBride 1988, p. 255.
30. Youmans 1921, p. 8.
31. Youmans 1921, p. 11.
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33. McBride 1993, p. 218.
34. Youmans 1921, p. 9.
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39. Anthony 1902, p. 987.
40. "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
41. Harper 1922, p. 701.
42. Anthony 1902, p. 989.
43. Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. p. 90. ISBN 0813816025.
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• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• McBride, Genevieve G. (Summer 1988). "Theodora Winton Youmans and the Wisconsin Woman Movement". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 71 (4): 242–275. JSTOR 4636147 – via JSTOR.
• McBride, Genevieve G. (1993). On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299140008.
• WHS (2020). Women's Suffrage Centennial Celebration (PDF). Wisconsin Historical Society.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "Ellen Alida Rose". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton.
• Youmans, Theodora W. (September 1921). "How Wisconsin Women Won the Ballot". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 5 (1): 3–32. JSTOR 4630337 – via JSTOR.

External links

• On Wisconsin: Celebrating 100 Years of the 19th Amendment