List of Pennsylvania suffragists
This is a list of Pennsylvania suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania.
Conventions
- Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester in 1852.[1]
- 5th National Women's Rights Convention, held in Philadelphia 1854.[2]
Groups
- Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA), formed in 1904.[3]
- Chester County Equal Suffrage Association.[4]
- Citizen's Suffrage Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1872.[5]
- Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, formed on February 21, 1910.[3][6]
- Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia.[4]
- Equal Rights Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1866.[7]
- Equal Franchise Federation of Pittsburgh.[8]
- Lackawanna County Equal Franchise League.[9]
- Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League (Pittsburgh).[10]
- Northwestern Pennsylvania Equal Franchise Association.[11]
- Pennsylvania College Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1908.[5]
- Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage, formed in March 1912.[11][12]
- Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, created in 1869.[7]
- Woman Suffrage Party of Chester County.[4]
- Woman Suffrage Society of Philadelphia, formed in 1892.[5]
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[5]
- Women's Suffrage Society of Monroe County.[13]
Suffragists
Suffragists marching in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, c. 1917 - Wilmer Atkinson (Philadelphia).[15]
- Rachel Foster Avery (Philadelphia).[5]
- Mary E. Bakewell (Pittsburgh).[16]
- Flora Snyder Black (Meyersdale).[17]
- Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (Philadelphia).[5]
- Jennie Bronenberg (Philadelphia).[18]
- Mary A. Burnham (Philadelphia, Powleton).[5][19]
- Jane Campbell (Philadelphia).[5]
- Annie D. Chisholm (Huntington).[18]
- Lavinia Nelson Clarke (Erie).[11]
- Jennie Cleveland (Erie).[11]
- Isaac Clothier (Pittsburgh).[20]
- JoAnna Connell (Erie).[11]
- Cora Crawford (Philadelphia).[18]
- Addie Whiteman Dickerson (Philadelphia).[21]
- Lavinia Dock (Fairfield).[18]
- Alice Dunbar Nelson (Philadelphia).[22]
- Rose Fishstein (Philadelphia).[18]
- Augusta Fleming (Erie).[23]
- Margaretta Forten (Philadelphia).[18]
- Gertrude Fuller (Pittsburgh).[24]
- Mary Grew.[7]
- Reba Gomborov (Philadelphia).[18]
- Angelina Grimké (Philadelphia).[25]
- Sarah Moore Grimké (Philadelphia).[25]
- Louise Hall (Philadelphia).[26]
- Frances Harper (Philadelphia).[27]
- Charles T. Heaslip.[28]
- Kate C. Heffelfinger (Shamokin).[18]
- Elizabeth McShane Hilles.[29]
- Matilda Hindman.[30]
- Liliane Stevens Howard (Philadelphia).[31]
- Hannah Clothier Hull (Pittsburgh).[20]
- Jane Hunt (Philadelphia).[22]
- Mary Ingham (Philadelphia).[18]
- Harriet C. Johnson (Philadelphia).[32]
- Caroline Katzenstein (Philadelphia).[5]
- Jennie E. Kennedy (Pittsburgh).[33]
- Julian Kennedy (Pittsburgh).[34]
- Alice Paisley Flack Kiernan (Somerset).[17]
- Caroline Burnham Kilgore (Philadelphia).[35]
- Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (Pittsburgh).[23]
- Mary Flinn Lawrence (Pittsburgh).[36]
- Dora Kelly Lewis (Philadelphia).[5]
- Sarah Hunt Lockrey (1863–1929) – physician and suffragist.[37]
- Elizabeth McShane (Philadelphia).[18]
- Lucy Kennedy Miller (Pittsburgh).[22]
- Winifred Barron Meek Morris (Pittsburgh).[38]
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia).[22]
- Lucretia Mott (Philadelphia).[1][39]
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia).[18]
- Mary H. Newbold.[30]
- Mary Irvin Thompson Orlady (Huntington).[40]
- Anna M. Orme.[41]
- Hannah J. Patterson (Pittsburgh).[42]
- Charlotte Woodward Pierce (Philadelphia).[43][44]
- Odessa Hunter Plate (Erie County).[11]
- Jane Weir Pressly (Erie).[11]
- Ellen H. E. Price (Philadelphia).[12]
- Margaret Wilson Pryor (Philadelphia).[22][45]
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"Suffragists of Eleven Counties to Celebrate Plank Victories and Dedicate New State Flag" June 1, 1916 (cropped) - Sarah Pugh.[46]
- Harriet Forten Purvis (Philadelphia).[18]
- Robert Purvis (Philadelphia).[5]
- Katherine S. Reed.[47]
- Jennie Bradley Roessing (Pittsburgh).[48]
- Katharine Wentworth Ruschenberger (Chester County).[4]
- Helen Stone Schluraff (Erie County).[11]
- Edna Schoyer (Pittsburgh).[38]
- Marion Margery Scranton.[49][50]
- Helen Semple (Titusville).[11]
- Eliza Kennedy Smith (Pittsburgh), also known as Eliza Jane Kennedy.[51][52][38]
- Mary Spencer (Erie).[11]
- Althea Staples (Monroe County).[13]
- Lily Helen Dupuy Steele (Pittsburgh).[18]
- Sara Yorke Stevenson (Philadelphia).[53]
- Jane Swisshelm (Pittsburgh).[54][54]
- Martha Gibbons Thomas (Chester County).[55]
- Eliza Sproat Turner (Philadelphia).[22]
- Ellen Winsor (Haverford).[18]
- Mary Winsor (Haverford).[18]
- Mary M. Wolfe (Philadelphia).[26]
- Mabel Woodward Wright (Erie).[11]
- Emma Writt (Pittsburgh).[56]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Samuel Ashbridge.[57]
- Dimner Beeber (Philadelphia).[58]
- William Cameron Sproul.[59]
Places
- Justice Bell on display at Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge).[60]
Publications
- Woman's Progress, first published in 1893.[61]
Suffragists campaigning in Pennsylvania
- Susan B. Anthony.[23]
- Henry Browne Blackwell.[62]
- Mary C. C. Bradford.[62]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[62]
- Mary Dennett.[63]
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman.[62]
- Laura Gregg.[62]
- Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale.[26]
- Laura M. Johns.[64]
- Clara Schlee Laddey.[47]
- Nellie McClung.[65]
- Inez Milholland.[63]
- Alice Paul.[63]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[62]
- Laura de Turczynowicz.[65]
- Ruza Wenclawska.[66]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates.[62]
Antisuffragists
Groups
- Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS), formed in 1911.[3]
See also
- List of historical Pennsylvania women
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
- Women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
- Women's suffrage in states of the United States
- Women's suffrage in the United States
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