List of Missouri suffragists explained

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.
• Columbia Equal Suffrage Association.
• Equal Suffrage Association of Kansas City, led by Kersey Coates and formed in 1892.
• Federated Colored Women's Clubs.
• Jackson County Suffrage Association, formed in 1918.
• Kansas City Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1911.
• Kansas City Woman's League, formed in 1914.
• Marysville Ladies Marching Band.^[1]
• Missouri Equal Suffrage Association (MESA) formed in 1895.
• Political Equality Club of Warrensburg, formed in 1911.
• St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League, formed in 1912.^[2]
• St. Louis County Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1870.^[3]
• St. Louis Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1910.
• Wednesday Club, formed in 1890 by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Eliot.
• Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri, formed in St. Louis in May 1867.^[4]

Suffragists

• Penelope Allen (St. Louis).
• Libbie C. Anthony (Jefferson City).^[5]
• Annie White Baxter (Jasper County).
• Emily Newell Blair (Jasper County).
• Martha H. Brinkerhoff.^[6]
• Margaret Burke (St. Louis).
• Marie Ruoff Byrum (Hannibal).^[7]
• Julia Shipley Carroll (St. Louis)
• Anna Clapp (St. Louis).^[8]
• Sarah Chandler Coates (Kansas City).
• Myrtle Foster Cook (Kansas City).^[9]
• Adaline Couzins (St. Louis).
• Phoebe Couzins (St. Louis).
• Phoebe Jane Ess (Kansas City).
• Edna Gellhorn (St. Louis).^[10]
• Lucretia Hall (St. Louis).
• Ella Harrison (Carthage).
• Rosa Russell Ingels (Columbia).
• Victoria Clay Haley (St. Louis).^[11]
• Rebecca Hazard (St. Louis).
• Virginia Hedges (Warrensburg).
• Ida Joyce Jackson (Jefferson City).^[12]
• Frances C. Jenkins (Kansas City)^[13]
• Addie M. Johnson.
• Marguerite Martyn (St. Louis).^[14]
• Helen Guthrie Miller (Columbia).
• Francis Minor (St. Louis).^[15]
• Virginia Minor (St. Louis).
• Jessie Moller (St. Louis).
• Ella Moffatt.
• Luella Wilcox St. Clair Moss (Columbia).
• Alma Nash (Marysville).
• Kate Richards O'Hare (St. Louis).
• Barbara Blackman O'Neil (St. Louis).
• Mary Whitney Phelps.^[16]
• Florence Wyman Richardson (St. Louis).
• Cecilia Razovsky (St. Louis).
• Alma Gibson Robb (St. Louis).
• Charlotte Rumbold (St. Louis).
• Laura Runyon (Warrensburg).
• Mary Semple Scott (St. Louis).
• Martha Taaffe (Jasper County).
• Genevieve Tierney (St. Louis).
• Alice Curtice Moyer Wing (St. Louis).^[17]
• Victoria Conkling Whitney (St. Louis).
• Fannie C. Williams (St. Louis).^[18]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• B. Gratz Brown.
• Perl Decker (Joplin).

Publications

• The Missouri Woman.^[19]

Places

• St. Louis Mercantile Library.^{[20] [21]}

Suffragists who campaigned in Missouri

• Jane Addams.
• Susan B. Anthony.^[22]
• Ethel Arnold.
• Florence Balgarnie.
• Henry Blackwell.
• Mary C. C. Bradford.
• Madeline McDowell Breckenridge.
• Mary Waldo Calkins.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Marion Cole.
• Hannah Cutler.^[23]
• Dorothy Dix.
• Margaret Foley.^[24]
• Clara C. Hoffman.
• Julia Ward Howe.
• Mary Seymour Howell.
• Laura M. Johns.^[25]
• Mary Livermore.^[26]
• Anne Henrietta Martin.
• Lucia Ames Mead.
• Lena Morrow.
• Emmeline Pankhurst, invited.
• Sylvia Pankhurst.
• Frances Squire Potter.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Anna R. Simmons.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Lucy Stone.^[27]
• Charles Burlingame Waite.

See also

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

References

Sources

• Book: Anthony, Susan B.. The History of Woman Suffrage. The Hollenbeck Press. 1902. Anthony. Susan B.. 4. Indianapolis. Harper. Ida Husted.
• 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.. Peculiar History of Women's Suffrage in Jasper County, Missouri. April 2014. Master of Arts. Pittsburg State University.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2010-11-16. Alma Nash & Her Band. 2020-09-21. Missouri Women. en.
2. Weigle. Florence E.. 1920. St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League. The Missouri Historical Review. 14. 3–4. 384.
3. News: 1870-05-27. Woman Suffrage Call. 2. The Missouri Republican. 2020-09-24. Newspapers.com.
4. Web site: Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri Formed. 2020-09-21. St. Louis Historic Preservation.
5. Web site: Biographical Sketch of Libbie (Libby) C. Anthony . 2023-03-23 . Alexander Street.
6. Book: Noun, Louise R.. Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. The Iowa State University PRess. 1969. 0813816025. Ames, Iowa. 97.
7. Web site: O'Connor. Candace. 1994. Women Who Led the Way. 2020-09-24. Missouri Almanac, 1993-94.
8. Web site: Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft. 2020-09-21. University of Missouri.
9. Yunker. Jordan. Fabbri. Lia. 2017. Biographical Sketch of Myrtle Foster Cook, 1870-1951. Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists. Alexander Street.
10. Web site: Missouri and the 19th Amendment. 2020-09-21. U.S. National Park Service. en.
11. Shea. Neil. 2017. Biographical Sketch of Victoria Clay Haley. Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists. Alexander Street.
12. Lopez. Noah. 2020. Biographical Sketch of Ida Joyce Jackson. Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists. Alexander Street.
13. News: END TO MRS. FRANCES JENKINS. . 15 October 2022 . . . 14 December 1915 . 9 . en.
14. Web site: O'Neil. Tim. 7 June 2016. Events will remember suffragists who lined Locust Street in demonstration 100 years ago. 2020-09-23. STLtoday.com. en.
15. Web site: Anderson. Caiti. 2016-04-22. Minor v. Happersett: The Supreme Court and Women's Suffrage. 2020-09-21. State of Elections. en-US.
16. News: 1869-02-11. Two Opposing Conventions in Conclave this Morning. 4. Chicago Evening Post. 2020-10-26. Newspapers.com.
17. Web site: 2018-12-23. Alice Curtice Moyer Wing and Woman Suffrage in the Ozarks, 1916-1919. 2020-09-22. Missouri Women. en.
18. Web site: Jones. Martha S.. 2020-08-07. For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn't end their fight to vote. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809154951/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/08/black-women-continued-fighting-for-vote-after-19th-amendment/. dead. August 9, 2020. 2020-09-26. National Geographic. en.
19. Driscoll. Carol. July 2020. Emily Newell Blair: Missouri's Suffragette. Missouri Life. 47. 5. 40–43. subscription. EBSCOhost.
20. News: 1869-10-08. Woman Suffrage. 2. The Missouri Republican. 2020-09-24. Newspapers.com.
21. News: 1867-06-15. Female Suffrage Movement Organized for Missouri. 2. Lancaster Excelsior. 2020-09-24. Newspapers.com.
22. Web site: Virginia Minor. 2020-09-21. Historic Missourians - The State Historical Society of Missouri.
23. Web site: O'Neil. Tim. 19 November 2011. A Look Back • Suffragists meet in St. Louis in 1872. 2020-09-21. STLtoday.com. en.
24. Web site: Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 . 7 August 2024 . Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
25. Web site: 2020-03-11 . Salinan part of Kansas Museum of History exhibit . 2024-09-15 . Salina Post.
26. News: 1871-02-04. Lecture by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. 2. The Missouri Republican. 2020-09-24. Newspapers.com.
27. Web site: Cooperman. Jeannette. 2020-04-28. St. Louis suffragists played a key role in advocating for the 19th Amendment 100 years ago. 2020-09-21. St. Louis Magazine. en-us.