List of New York (state) suffragists explained

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

Groups

• Equality League of Self Supporting Women.^[1]
• Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.^[2]
• The Men's League.
• New York State Suffrage Association.
• Woman Suffrage Party (branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association).^[3]

Suffragists

• Robert Cameron Beadle -- member of the Men's League.^[4]
• Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist.
• Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York.^[5]
• Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist.^[6]
• Gertrude Foster Brown (1867–1956) – pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it (1918).^{[7] [8]}
• Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist.^[9]
• Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the NWP.^[10]
• Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of NAWSA.^[11]
• Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist.^[12]
• Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution.^[13]
• Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights.^[14]
• Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes.^[15]
• Max Eastman -- member of the Men's League.^[16]
• Cordelia A. Greene (1831–1905), physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association.^[17]
• Jean Brooks Greenleaf (1832–1918) – president, New York State Suffrage Association (1890–96).
• Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC.^{[18] [19]}
• Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper.^[20]
• Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States.^[21]
• Herbert Parsons -- member of the Men's League.^[22]
• Oswald Garrison Villard -- member of the Men's League.^[23]

See also

• List of American suffragists

References

Sources

• Eastman . Max . Max Eastman . October 1912 . Early History of the Men's League . The Woman Voter . 3 . 9 . 17–18 . Internet Archive.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted . Ida Husted Harper . The History of Woman Suffrage . J.J. Little & Ives Company . 1922 . New York.

Notes and References

1. DuBois . Ellen Carol . 1987 . Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909 . The Journal of American History . en . 74 . 1 . 34–58 . 10.2307/1908504 . 0021-8723 . 1908504.
2. Web site: The record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc., 1917-1929 . 2024-04-16 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
3. Web site: archives.nypl.org -- New York State Woman Suffrage Party records . 2024-04-16 . archives.nypl.org.
4. Web site: Kroeger . Brooke . Brooke Kroeger . 2018-03-16 . The little-known story of the men who fought for women's votes . 2020-10-12 . Medium . en.
5. Web site: Irene Moorman Blackstone - . 2024-07-31 . Archives of Women's Political Communication . en.
6. Web site: Marzell . Terry Lee . 6 September 2014 . Katherine Devereux Blake: Chalkboard Champion, Suffragist, and Peace Activist . 31 July 2024 . Chalkboard Champions.
7. Book: Hannan . Caryn . Illinois biographical dictionary . Herman . Jennifer L. . 2008 . State History Publications . 978-1878592606 . 2008-2009 . Hamburg, MI . 95–96 . 31 July 2024.
8. Book: Brown . Gertrude Foster . Your vote and how to use it . 1918 . Harper & Brothers . New York . verso . 31 July 2024.
9. Web site: "General" Rosalie Jones and the Suffrage Hikes . 2024-08-01 . New York Heritage.
10. Web site: Lucy Burns . 2024-08-01 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
11. Oaks . Jodi . Biography of Jennie Curtis (Mrs. Henry W.) Cannon, 1851-1929 . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 . Alexander Street.
12. News: November 11, 1907 . Mariana Wright Chapman. Death of a Woman of Much Influence in the Life and Thought of Brooklyn. . 1 August 2024 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 4 . Newspapers.com.
13. News: Scutts . Joanna . 2014-03-07 . 'The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in Gilded Age' by Myra MacPherson . 2 August 2024 . The Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
14. Web site: Thomas . Beth . Suffrage – Bristol . 2024-08-03 . Ontario County Historical Society . en-US.
15. Web site: Ida A. Craft, Brooklyn's Suffrage Pioneer . 2022-12-28 . Kingsborough Art Museum . en-US.
16. Web site: The Suffrage Cause and Bryn Mawr - American Speakers II . 2020-10-12 . Bryn Mawr.
17. Book: Gordon . Elizabeth Putnam . The Story of the Life and Work of Cordelia A. Greene, M.D. . 1925 . The Castilian . Castile, New York . en . 22 August 2022.
18. Web site: 7 February 1913 . Mount Airy: Home of Helen Hoy Greeley . 9 July 2018 . Piedmont Virginia Digital History: The Land Between the Rivers.
19. Web site: 21 August 2015 . Helen Hoy Greeley Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160423175148/http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/greeleyhh.html . 23 April 2016 . 9 July 2018 . Swarthmore Home.
20. News: Seligman . Edna . Longshoremen Interested in The Suffrage Question . 22.
21. Web site: Poletika . Nicole . 2022-01-27 . 'A Hundred Years From Now—What?:' Mary Garrett Hay Predicts Life in 2022 . 2024-08-09 . The Indiana History Blog . en-US.
22. Neuman . Johanna . July 2017 . Who Won Women's Suffrage? A Case for 'Mere Men' . The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era . en . 16 . 3 . 347–367 . 10.1017/S1537781417000081 . 1537-7814 . free.
23. Web site: Reynolds . Eileen . 2017-09-05 . These powerful men were humble allies for women's vote . 2020-10-12 . Futurity . en-US.