This is a list of Connecticut suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Connecticut.
Groups
edit- Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (Woman's Political union) of Connecticut.[1]
- Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA), established in 1869.[2]
- Equal Rights Club of Willimantic, founded in 1894.[3]
- Greenwich Equal Suffrage League.[4]
- Farmington Equal Franchise League.[5]
- Hartford Equal Franchise League, established first as the Hartford Political Equality League in 1909.[6]
- Hartford Equal Rights League, founded in 1885.[7]
- Litchfield Equal Franchise League.[8]
- Men's League for Woman Suffrage.[9]
- Meriden Political Equality Club, founded in 1889.[10][3]
- National Junior Suffrage Corps.[11]
- New Haven Equal Franchise League, founded in 1912.[12]
- New Haven Political Equality Club.[5]
- National Woman's Party (NWP).[13]
- Norwich Equal Franchise League.[14]
- Old Lyme Equal Franchise League.[15]
- South Manchester Equal Franchise League.[5]
- Suffrage Emergency Corps, created in 1920.[16]
- Wallingford Equal Franchise League.[17]
- Waterbury Equal Franchise League.[5]
- Westport Equal Franchise League.[18]
- Windsor Equal Franchise League.[5]
Suffragists
edit- Annie Brewer Austin (Middletown).[19]
- Elizabeth D. Bacon.[20]
- Catharine Beecher.[21]
- Henry Ward Beecher.[22]
- Josephine Bennett (Hartford).[23][13]
- Minnie L. Bradley (New Haven).[24]
- Rhoda L. Brooks (Hartford).[25]
- Olympia Brown (Bridgeport).[26][27]
- Clara Burr (Norwich).[14]
- Frances Ellen Burr (Hartford).[2][19]
- Nathaniel J. Burton.[28]
- Helen Chisaski (Bridgeport).[23]
- Callie Mathes Coleman (Hartford).[25]
- Emily Parmely Collins (Hartford).[3]
- Sara Crawford (Westport).[18]
- Amelia Shaw MacDonald Cutler (Westport).[29]
- Daisy Trotter Daniels (Hartford).[25]
- Katherine Beach Day (Hartford).[19]
- Rosa J. Richardson Fisher (Hartford).[25]
- Catherine Flanagan (Hartford).[23]
- Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (New Haven).[25]
- Martha Minerva Franklin (New Haven).[25]
- Laura Gardin Fraser (Westport).[18]
- Minnie L. Glover (Hartford).[25]
- Elizabeth Jeter Greene (Norwich).[14]
- Phoebe Hanaford (New Haven).[27]
- Minnie Hennessy.[2]
- Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (West Hartford).[13][19]
- George A. Hickox (Litchfield).[30]
- Clara Hill (Norwalk).[31]
- Maud W. Hincks (Bridgeport).[32]
- Isabella Beecher Hooker.[2]
- John Hooker.[21]
- Anna Louise James (Old Saybrook).[24]
- Mary A. Johnson (Hartford).[25]
- Lena E. Knighton (Hartford).[25]
- Ida Napier Lawson (Hartford).[25]
- Katharine Ludington (Old Lyme).[19]
- Martha Rufner Maddox (Hartford).[25]
- Elmer Livingston MacRae (Greenwich).[4]
- Anna Holden Mazzanovich (Westport).[18]
- Ethel L. Murray (West Hartford).[33]
- Valeria Hopkins Parker (Greenwich).[30]
- Alice Paul (Ridgefield).[34]
- Rose Payton (Hartford).[25]
- Emily Pierson (Cromwell).[31][19]
- Annie Porritt (Hartford).[35]
- Anna B. Reese (Hartford).[25]
- Emma Winner Rogers.[36]
- Mary Jane Rogers (Montville).[19]
- Caroline Ruutz-Rees (Greenwich).[30]
- Linna Saunders (New Haven).[25]
- Beatrice Johnson Saxon (New Haven).[25]
- Alfredo Samuel Guido Taylor (Norfolk).[9][37]
- Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (Greenwich).[38]
- Mary Townsend Seymour (Hartford).[19]
- Julia Evelina Smith (Glastonbury).[39]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Hartford).[27]
- Rebecca Tanner (Stamford).[14]
- Ida Sully Troy (Hartford).[25]
- Helena Hill Weed (Norwalk).[40]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Clifford B. Wilson (Bridgeport).[41]
Suffragists campaigning in Connecticut
editGroups
People
- Susan B. Anthony.[21]
- Ella Reeve Bloor.[17]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[42]
- Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.[43]
- William Lloyd Garrison.[22]
- Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale.[44]
- Grace Raymond Hebard.[45]
- Mary Seymour Howell.[46]
- Mary Livermore.[22]
- Dudley Field Malone.[47]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[30]
- Byron Phelps.[44]
- Jeannette Rankin.[44]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[48]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[21]
- Ruza Wenclawska.[44]
Anti-suffragists
editGroups
- Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (CAOWS), formed in 1910.[30]
People
References
edit- ^ "Suffrage Speaker in Great Demand". Asbury Park Press. 1915-05-27. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d "Connecticut and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ^ a b c Anthony 1902, p. 536.
- ^ a b "19th Amendment Centennial Celebration". Connecticut Bar Association. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ a b c d e "Votes for Women Enthusiasts Here". Hartford Courant. 1915-10-20. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-01-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 70.
- ^ "Frances Ellen Burr". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ^ Jenkins 2011, p. 137.
- ^ a b Kroeger 2017, p. 98.
- ^ "The Meriden Political Equality club". The Journal. 1910-11-12. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-12-22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Asolando - Caroline Ruutz Rees". Book Lives. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 71.
- ^ a b c Christine, Gauvreau (24 September 2015). "When Attitudes toward World War Divided the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement". Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ^ a b c d Weiss, Abby (2023-01-31). "New Research Uncovers Stories of CT Suffragettes of Color". CT Insider. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 74.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 76.
- ^ a b Marino 2013, p. 230.
- ^ a b c d Brown, Mary. "LibGuides: Suffrage in Westport: Our Neighbors, Our Crusaders". Westport Library. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Barco, Siobhan; Diffley, Ernesta; Marino, Kelly; Menard, Micaela; Muskic, Meliha; Jackie, Katelyn; Exner, Georgia (2020). "CT Suffragists". Connecticut Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ "The New President". The Journal. 1906-11-02. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-01-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Nichols 1983, p. 6.
- ^ a b c "Woman Suffrage". New York Daily Herald. 1869-10-30. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Suffragists in Connecticut". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ^ a b "What happened in Connecticut with the 19th Amendment Ratification?". League of Women Voters of Connecticut. 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Women of Color Suffrage". Connecticut Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ "The Coming Woman". New York Daily Herald. 1870-12-21. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-10-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Connecticut". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ Anthony 1902, p. 535.
- ^ "Guide to the Amelia MacDonald Cutler Papers, 1906-1921". Archives & Special Collections Library - Vassar College. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
- ^ a b c d e f Jenkins, Jessica D. (2016-06-02). "The Long Road to Women's Suffrage in Connecticut". Connecticut Explored. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ a b "Woman Suffrage Workers on the Way Here". Norwich Bulletin. 1913-04-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-12-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Printing the Briefs: Suffragettes Submit a Proposition to Their Opponents". Hartford Courant. 29 December 1911. Retrieved 16 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jenkins 2011, p. 141.
- ^ "Connecticut Suffragists". Torrington Library. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020.
- ^ Nichols 1983, p. 8.
- ^ "Votes for Women". Yale University Library Online Exhibitions. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ Guarnieri, Catherine (2016-02-22). "Architect Who Shaped Norfolk had Feminist Leanings". The Register Citizen. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ^ "Suffragists in Greenwich". Greenwich Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
- ^ "The Glastonbury Cows and the Fight for Women's Suffrage". New England Historical Society. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
- ^ "The Martial Adventures of the Presidential Suffrage Bill". The Labor Standard. 1919-06-01. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-07-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. C. C. Catt to Speak Here Today". Hartford Courant. 1916-02-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-12-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "State Suffragists in Convention". Hartford Courant. 1917-11-08. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-12-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Marino 2013, p. 231.
- ^ "Advance Guard of Suffrage Emergency Corps Arrives". New-York Tribune. 1920-05-02. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-08-23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 68.
- ^ "Dudley Field Malone on Woman Suffrage". Hartford Courant. 1918-01-27. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Thornton, Steve (2020-05-27). "Josephine Bennett: Hartford's City Mother - Connecticut History". CTHumanities Project. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ^ "Warm Hearing on Suffrage Bills Before Judiciary". Hartford Courant. 1917-02-28. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-12-23 – via Newspapers.com.
Sources
edit- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Jenkins, Jessica D. (September 2011). "Marching Shoulder to Shoulder: New Life in the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement". Connecticut History. 50 (2): 131–145. doi:10.2307/44370361. JSTOR 44370361 – via EBSCOhost.
- Kroeger, Brooke (2017). The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. University of New York Press. ISBN 9781438466293.
- Marino, Kelly (Fall 2013). "Making a Scene for Suffrage in Connecticut: Emily Pierson and Educational Theatrics, 1910-1917". Connecticut History. 52 (2): 226–242. doi:10.2307/44370195. JSTOR 44370195 – via EBSCOhost.
- Nichols, Carole (1983). Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc. ISBN 0866561927 – via Internet Archive.