List of New Jersey suffragists explained

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

Groups

• New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is formed in 1915.
• Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, organized in 1910.
• Equal Justice League, formed in Bayonne in 1911.
• Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys.
• Essex County Suffrage Society.^[1]
• Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party.
• Montclair Equal Suffrage League.
• National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey.^[2]
• New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League.
• New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910.
• New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).^[3]
• New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867.
• Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898.^[4]
• Progressive Woman Suffrage Society.
• Rutherford Equal Suffrage League.
• Sewaren Equal Suffrage League.
• Vineland Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1866.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
• Woman's Political Union of New Jersey.

Suffragists

• Minnie Abbott (Atlantic City).
• Minnie Adams (Sewaren).
• Caroline B. Alexander (Hoboken).
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Elizabeth).
• Emma L. Blackwell.
• Henry Browne Blackwell (Orange).
• Cornelia Foster Bradford.
• Augusta Cooper Bristol (Vineland).
• Charlotte Emerson Brown.
• Ida E. Duckett Brown.
• Katharine H. Browning (West Orange).
• Mary E. Cary Burrell (Essex County).^[5]
• Harriet Frances Carpenter (Newark).^{[6] [7]}
• Flora Gapen Charters.
• Edith H. Colby (West Orange).
• Mary Kendall Loring Colvin (East Orange).^[8]
• Henrietta Green Crawford (Vineland).^[9]
• Agnes M. Cromwell (Mendham).^[10]
• Seymour L. Cromwell.^[11]
• May Chase Cummings (Middlesex County).
• Fanny B. Downs (Orange).
• Sarah Corson Downs.
• Mary Dubrow (Passaic).
• Thomas Edison (West Orange).^[12]
• Charlotte N. Enslin (Orange).
• Bertha L. Fearey (East Orange).
• Lillian Feickert.
• Florence F. Foster.
• Susan Pecker Fowler (Vineland).^[13]
• Cecilia Gaines (Jersey City).
• Emma O. Gantz (East Orange).
• Angelina Grimké.
• Sarah Moore Grimké.
• Florence Howe Hall.
• Phebe Hanaford (Jersey City).
• Alma Arabella Parker Harvey (Deal).^[14]
• Carrie H. Henry (Jersey City).
• Alison Turnbull Hopkins (Morristown).
• Julia Hurlbut (Morristown).
• Cornelia C. Hussey (East Orange).
• Mary D. Hussey (East Orange).
• Anna B. Jeffery.^[15]
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury (Vineland).^[16]
• Beatrice Kinkead (Montclair).^[17]
• Martha Klatscken (East Orange).
• Clara Schlee Laddey.
• Harriet Lafetra (Monmouth).
• Alice Lakey (Cranford).
• Amelia Berndt Moorfield (Newark).^[18]
• Mary Pattison (Colonia).
• Alice Paul (Mt. Laurel).
• Mary Philbrook (Newark).
• Aaron Macy Powell.
• Anita Stillman Quarles (Hoboken).^[19]
• Florence Spearing Randolph.
• Ella M. Rice (Middlesex County).
• Linton Satterthwaite (Trenton).
• Melinda Scott (Newark).
• Phoebe Scott (Morristown).
• Agnes Anne Schermerhorn (East Orange).^[20]
• Therese Walling Seabrook (Keyport).
• Sarah E. Selover (South River).
• Minola Graham Sexton (Orange).
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Tenafly).
• Lucy Stone (Orange).^[21]
• Rhea Vickers.
• Mina Van Winkle.

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• William Miller Baird.
• Robert Carey (Jersey City).
• Thomas Chattle.
• Everett Colby.
• Walter Evans Edge.
• Charles M. Egan (Jersey City).
• John Franklin Fort.
• William C. Gebhardt (Hunterdon County).
• Charles O'Connor Hennessy (Bergen County).
• Henry Lafetra (Monmouth).
• Victor Mavalag (Elizabeth).
• Walter I. McCoy.
• William Lawrence Saunders (Plainfield).
• Judge John Whitehead.
• Alexander Wilder (Newark).
• Grant Griesman (Bowdoin ‘24)
• Alan Casey (from Madrid)

Suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

• Alice Stone Blackwell.
• Lillie Devereux Blake.
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg.
• Harriot Stanton Blatch.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Mariana Wright Chapman.
• Liska Stillman Churchill.
• Annie Le Porte Diggs.
• Rheta Childe Dorr.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
• Kate M. Gordon.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Clara Cleghorn Hoffman.
• Julia Ward Howe.
• Fola La Follette.
• Mary Livermore.
• Sophia Loebinger.
• Ellis Meredith.
• George Middleton.
• Florence Miller.
• Emmeline Pankhurst.
• Emily Pierson.
• Minnie Reynolds.
• Helen Ring Robinson.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Mary Church Terrell.
• Mabel Vernon.
• Fanny Garrison Villard.
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey.^[22]
• New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) is formed in 1912.

People

• Anna Dayton (Trenton).
• Georgiana Breese.
• Frances Cleveland (Princeton).
• Harriet Clark Fisher (Trenton).
• Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (Trenton).
• John A. Matthews (Newark).
• William Francis Magie (Princeton).
• Blanche O. Roebling (Trenton).

Anti-suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

• Minnie Bronson.
• Josephine Jewell Dodge.^[23]
• Alice N. George.

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in New Jersey
• Women's suffrage in New Jersey
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• 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. Susan B. Anthony. Harper. Ida Husted.
• Dodyk. Delight Wing. May 1997. Education and Agitation: The Woman Suffrage Movement in New Jersey. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. . ProQuest.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted. The History of Woman Suffrage. J.J. Little & Ives Company. 1922. New York. Ida Husted Harper.
• Book: Irwin, Inez Haynes. The Story of the Woman's Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1921. New York. Inez Haynes Irwin.
• Web site: Levin. Carol Simon. Dodyk. Delight Wing. March 2020. Susanna Rich. Reclaiming Our Voice. 8 June 2021. Garden State Legacy.
• Book: McGoldrick. Neale. Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey. Crocco. Margaret. New Jersey Council for the Humanities. 1993. 29178051.
• Book: Perrone, Fernanda H.. On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Middlesex County. Arts Institute of Middlesex County. 2021. New Brunswick, New Jersey. 21.

Notes and References

1. News: 1912-01-08. Suffrage Plans in Jersey. 4. Perth Amboy Evening News. 2021-07-26. Newspapers.com.
2. Web site: 2017-07-30. Suffragists in New Jersey. 2021-06-30. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. en-US.
3. Web site: Adams . Betty Livingston . Biographical Sketch of Ida E. Duckett Brown . 2023-03-27 . Alexander Street.
4. Web site: Hendrickson. Lisa. NJ Suffragists – Minola Graham Sexton 1859-1922. 2021-07-09. Discover NJ History.
5. Web site: Livingston Adams . Betty . Biographical Sketch of Mary E. Cary Burrell . 2023-03-28 . Alexander Street.
6. Web site: Women's Suffrage in the Early Twentieth Century. 2021-07-11. On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Middlesex County.
7. Book: Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide . 1917 . 1 . 55–56, 80–81 . en . Harriet Frances Carpenter . 5 September 2023 . https://books.google.com/books?id=UpVhIWaxi9AC&pg=PA80.
8. Web site: Williams. Victoria. 2008-08-28. These NJ women fought for right to vote. 2021-07-15. Gloucester County Times. en.
9. Web site: Johnson . James Elton . Biographical Sketch of Henrietta Green Crawford . 2023-03-29 . Alexander Street.
10. Web site: Rex. Katrina. NJ Suffragists – Agnes M. Cromwell (1874-1959). 2021-06-30. Discover NJ History.
11. News: 1915-10-07. Edison, Harvey, Hughes and Other Leading Men Refute Senator Martine. 12. Passaic Daily News. 2021-08-02. Newspapers.com.
12. News: 1915-10-07. Edison Comes Out Unqalifiedly for Suffrage. 12. Passaic Daily News. 2021-08-02. Newspapers.com.
13. Getzinger. Diane. Biographical Sketch of Susan Pecker Fowler. Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920. Alexander Street.
14. Hooton. Chole Belle. Biographical Sketch of Alma Arabella Parker Harvey. Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Alexander Street.
15. Web site: Brow. Kelsey. NJ Suffragists – Anna B. Jeffery (1847-1938). 2021-06-30. Discover NJ History.
16. 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. 90.
17. Web site: Period IV. 2021-08-04. New Jersey Women's History.
18. Web site: Robb. George. NJ Suffragists – Amelia Berndt Moorfield (1876-1950). 2021-06-30. Discover NJ History.
19. Web site: Robb. George. NJ Suffragists – Anita Stillman Quarles (1887-1971). 2021-06-30. Discover NJ History.
20. Web site: Hendrickson. Lisa. NJ Suffragist Biographies. 2021-06-30. Discover NJ History.
21. Web site: Gittleman. Nicole. 2020-08-17. The History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in New Jersey. 2021-06-29. Hoboken Girl. en-US.
22. News: Mappen. Marc. 1990-10-14. JERSEYANA. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-08-18. 0362-4331.
23. News: 1915-05-29. Woman Suffrage Battle Opens in New Jersey As Antis Unlimber Big Guns. 7. The Chatham Press. 2021-08-02. Newspapers.com.