List_of_Illinois_suffragists
This is a list of Illinois suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Illinois.
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- Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913.[1]
- Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910.[2]
- Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894.[3][4]
- Chicago Teachers' Federation.[5]
- Chicago Woman's Club.[6]
- Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society.[7]
- Decatur Women's Suffrage Club, formed in 1888.[8]
- Democratic Club of Chicago, formed in 1900.[6]
- Earlville Suffrage Association, formed in 1855.[9]
- Ella Flagg Young Club.[5]
- Illinois Equal Franchise Society.[10]
- Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.[11]
- Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.[6]
- Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), formed in 1869, later renamed Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA).[12][13][14]
- Men's Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1909.[15]
- Naperville Equal Suffrage Club, created in 1888.[16]
- National Woman's Party.[17]
- The Ossoli Club, formed in Highland Park, Illinois, in 1894.[18]
- Sorosis.[19]
- Springfield Suffrage Association.[20]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WTCU) of Illinois.[3]
- Women's Trade Union League (WTUL).[21]
- Sadie Lewis Adams (Chicago).[22]
- Jane Addams.[23]
- Royal Allen.[24]
- Susan E. Allen (Galesburg).[25]
- Naomi Talbert Anderson (Chicago).[26]
- Susan Look Avery (Chicago).[6]
- Eugenia M. Bacon.[15]
- Laura Beasley (Chicago).[27]
- Ella G. Berry (Chicago).[28]
- Kizziah J. Bills (Chicago).[29]
- Anna Blount (Oak Park).[30]
- Elizabeth K. Booth (Glencoe).[31]
- Louise DeKoven Bowen (Chicago).[26]
- Myra Colby Bradwell.[32]
- Sophonisba Breckinridge (Chicago).[33]
- Virginia Brooks (Chicago).[34]
- Adella Maxwell Brown (Peoria).[35]
- Laura Robinson Campbell (East St. Louis)[36]
- Agnes Chase.[26]
- Mary C. Clarke (Chicago).[37]
- George E. Cole (Chicago).[15]
- Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward (Chicago).[6]
- Prudence Crandall.[19]
- Caroline Bartlett Crane (Chicago).[38]
- Gertrude Crocker (Hinsdale).[26]
- Ruth Crocker (Hinsdale).[26]
- Susan Lawrence Dana (Sangamon County).[20]
- Margaret Dobyne.[39]
- Kate N. Doggett (Chicago).[40]
- Elvira Downey (Clinton).[8]
- Ida Darling Engelke (Chicago).[41]
- Elizabeth Hawley Everett (Highland Park).[42]
- Lucy H. Ewing (Chicago).[26]
- Janet Kellogg Fairbank (Chicago).[43]
- Samuel Fallows (Chicago).[44]
- Clara M. Farson (St. Charles).[45]
- Henry B. Favill (Chicago).[44]
- Lucy Flower.[46]
- Antoinette Funk (Chicago).[17]
- Sophie Gibb (Decatur).[8]
- Catherine Goggin (Chicago).[5]
- Harriet Grim (Chicago).[8]
- Emily M. Gross.[6]
- Alonzo Jackson Grover (Earlville).[47]
- Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Evanston).[32][5]
- Margaret Haley (Chicago).[5]
- Effie Henderson (Bloomington).[48]
- Mary Emma Holmes (Chicago)[49]
- Carrie S. Cook Horton (Chicago).[50]
- Kate Hughes (Table Grove).[51][46]
- Alta Hulett.[32]
- Adelaide Johnson.[52]
- Carrie Ashton Johnson (Rockford).[53]
- Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Chicago).[44]
- Mary H. Krout (Chicago).[53]
- Maydie Spaulding Lee (Springfield).[20]
- Lena Morrow Lewis (Chicago).[54]
- Mary Livermore.[19]
- Elizabeth F. Long (Barry).[5]
- Judith Weil Loewenthal (Chicago).[41]
- Andrew MacLeish (Chicago).[44]
- Anna A. Maley.[55]
- Ellen A. Martin (Lombard).[14]
- Mary Mather (Sangamon County).[20]
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Evanston).[56]
- Henry Neil (Chicago).[44]
- Agnes Nestor (Chicago).[13]
- Anna E. Nicholes.[15]
- S. Grace Nicholes (Chicago)
- Maude Gregg Palmer (Springfield).[20]
- Fannie H. Rastall.[53]
- Harriet Reed (Springfield).[20]
- Susan Hoxie Richardson (Earlville).[19]
- Mabel Sippy (Chicago).[18]
- Julia Holmes Smith.[46]
- Eva Munson Smith.[53]
- Elmira E. Springer.[15]
- Belle Squire (Chicago).[34]
- Ida Staggall.[57]
- Ella S. Stewart.[10][55]
- Mary Thomas.[58]
Grace Wilbur Trout (marked with x) after her return from Springfield and the campaign for women's votes, June 14, 1913 - Helen Todd (Chicago).[59]
- Grace Wilbur Trout (Oak Park).[60]
- Elsie Unterman (Chicago).[26]
- Mary L. Walker.[61]
- Clara Barck Welles (Chicago).[62]
- Ida B. Wells (Chicago).[26]
- Frances Willard.[19]
- Fannie Barrier Williams (Chicago).[26]
- Jennie Willing (Rockford).[63]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Martin B. Bailey.[64]
- Charles Bogardus.[3]
- James Bradwell.[32]
- Charles H. Carmon (Forrest).[65]
- Orrin N. Carter.[66]
- Miles B. Castle.[54]
- Albert C. Clark.[64]
- Michael H. Cleary.[64]
- William A. Compton.[64]
- Reuben W. Coon.[67]
- John M. Curran.[65]
- Edward C. Curtis.[64]
- George W. Curtis.[3]
- Samuel A. Ettelson.[64]
- Isaiah T. Greenacre.[41]
- George W. Harris.[64]
- Logan Hay.[64]
- Hugh S. Magill.[64]
- Walter Clyde Jones.[64]
- Kent E. Keller.[64]
- Walter I. Manny.[64]
- Medill McCormick.[65]
- Willard McEwen.[41]
- Thomas J. McMillan.[15]
- Fayette S. Munro (Highland Park).[65]
- Barratt O'Hara.[64]
- W. Duff Piercy.[64]
- Murray F. Tuley.[15]
- Richards S. Tuthill.[44]
- Emil N. Zolla (Chicago).[65]
- Leland Hotel (Springfield).[4]
- Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago).[68]
- The Agitator, created in 1869.[69]
- Susan B. Anthony.[70]
- Henry B. Blackwell.[71]
- Celia Burleigh.[71]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[54]
- Miriam M. Cole.[71]
- Phoebe Couzins.[71]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[54]
- Helen M. Gougar.[54]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[54]
- Isabella Beecher Hooker.[71]
- Julia Ward Howe.[71]
- Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.[72]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[38]
- Lilly Peckham.[71]
- Mary Whitney Phelps.[70]
- Parker Pillsbury.[71]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[54]
- Ethel Snowden.[38]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[70]
- Lucy Stone.[54]
- Mabel Vernon.[73]
- Zerelda G. Wallace.[54]
Groups
- Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, formed in 1897.[8]
People
- Anton J. Cermak (Chicago).[74]
- Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago).[8]
- Levy Mayer (Chicago).[75]
- Emma Oglesby (Elkhart).[48]
- Sorenson 2004, p. 9.
- Harper 1922, p. 149.
- Anthony 1902, p. 600.
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- Harper 1922, p. 145.
- Anthony 1902, p. 612.
- "Susan B. Anthony". Chicago Tribune. 1885-04-12. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-10-31 – via Newspapers.com.
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- Egge, Sara (2018). Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. p. 116. ISBN 9781609385583 – via Project MUSE.
- Davis 1922, p. 9.
- Janu & Venet 1996, p. 3.
- Andes, Scarlett (2020-03-29). "Agnes Nestor – Working Women's Advocate". Suffrage 2020 Illinois. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- Sorenson 2004, p. 8.
- Harper 1922, p. 147.
- Wilson, Marie (2020-08-22). "How suburban leaders pushed movement for women's votes". Daily Herald. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
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- Cole, Leslie (2020-02-11). "Highland Park Suffrage History". Suffrage 2020 Illinois. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
- Sorenson 2004, p. 6.
- "Women's suffrage in Illinois". SangamonLink. 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
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- Davis 1922, p. 80.
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- Davis 1922, p. 73.
- "Suffragists in Illinois". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
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- "Plan 'Suffrage by Relay' In Auto Tours of State". Chicago Tribune. 1910-07-21. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-10-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- Harper 1922, p. 150.
- Sorenson 2004, p. 7.
- Jabour, Anya. "Commemorating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment". University of Chicago - SSA. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- Ansah, Ama (2018-08-16). "Votes for Women means Votes for Black Women". National Women's History Museum. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- Harper 1922, p. 161.
- "Pioneer G.O.P. Woman Suffrage Leader Dies". The Decatur Review. 26 Sep 1944. p. 4.
- Wilson, Linda D. "Biographical Sketch of Mary C. Beasley Byron Clarke". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- "Notable Speakers to Be Heard". The Parsons Daily Sun. 1909-11-19. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- Trout 1920, p. 161.
- "The Woman's Suffrage Association". The Inter Ocean. 1878-11-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-10-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- Harper 1922, p. 159.
- "Highland Park Suffrage History". Suffrage 2020 Illinois. 11 February 2020.
- Bensley, Lucas (2020-03-01). "Suffer Not the Rain: The 1916 Suffrage Parade in Chicago". Suffrage 2020 Illinois. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
- Harper 1922, p. 148.
- "The Women's Vote has a History in St. Charles". City of St. Charles, Illinois. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- Harper 1922, p. 146.
- Lahti, Hannah (2019-12-29). "Early Suffrage in Illinois: A.J. Grover and the Earlville Suffrage Association". Suffrage 2020 Illinois. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
- Sorensen, Mark (23 August 2020). "Earning the right: Looking back to the women's suffrage movement in Macon County". Herald-Review. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
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- Anthony 1902, p. 603.
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- Anthony 1902, p. 613.
- Anthony 1902, p. 599.
- "Invaluable Out-of-Staters". History in South Dakota. 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- "Illinois Women Gain the Vote in 1913". Suffrage 2020 Illinois. 2019-05-29. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
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- "The National Association in Annual Convention". Chicago Tribune. 1884-11-20. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-10-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- "[Suffragettes Miss Helen Todd, Mrs. Joseph R. Hamilton, and Miss Mary M. Maginness standing with suitcases]". Explore Chicago Collections. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
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- Trout 1920, p. 158.
- Harper 1922, p. 152.
- Harper 1922, p. 163.
- Anthony 1902, p. 601.
- Sorenson 2004, p. 10.
- "Philanthropist, Organizer, Agitator". Chicago History Museum. 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- "Two Opposing Conventions in Conclave this Morning". Chicago Evening Post. 1869-02-11. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Woman Suffrage Convention". The Woodstock Sentinel. 1871-02-02. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- 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 1922, p. 154.
- Harper 1922, p. 158.
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