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.
Groups
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903
- 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]
Suffragists
Susan E. Allen of Galeburg, Illinois in 1922
- 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]
- Anna Blount (Oak Park).[27]
- Elizabeth K. Booth (Glencoe).[28]
- Louise DeKoven Bowen (Chicago).[26]
- Myra Colby Bradwell.[29]
- Sophonisba Breckinridge (Chicago).[30]
- Virginia Brooks (Chicago).[31]
- Adella Maxwell Brown (Peoria).[32]
- Agnes Chase.[26]
- George E. Cole (Chicago).[15]
- Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward (Chicago).[6]
- Prudence Crandall.[19]
- Caroline Bartlett Crane (Chicago).[33]
- Gertrude Crocker (Hinsdale).[26]
- Ruth Crocker (Hinsdale).[26]
- Susan Lawrence Dana (Sangamon County).[20]
- Margaret Dobyne.[34]
- Kate N. Doggett (Chicago).[35]
- Elvira Downey (Clinton).[8]
- Ida Darling Engelke (Chicago).[36]
- Lucy H. Ewing (Chicago).[26]
- Janet Kellogg Fairbank (Chicago).[37]
- Samuel Fallows (Chicago).[38]
- Clara M. Farson (St. Charles).[39]
- Henry B. Favill (Chicago).[38]
- Lucy Flower.[40]
- Antoinette Funk (Chicago).[17]
- Sophie Gibb (Decatur).[8]
- Catherine Goggin (Chicago).[5]
- Harriet Grim (Chicago).[8]
- Emily M. Gross.[6]
- Alonzo Jackson Grover (Earlville).[41]
- Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Evanston).[29][5]
- Margaret Haley (Chicago).[5]
- Effie Henderson (Bloomington).[42]
- Carrie S. Cook Horton (Chicago).[43]
- Kate Hughes (Table Grove).[44][40]
- Alta Hulett.[29]
- Adelaide Johnson.[45]
- Carrie Ashton Johnson (Rockford).[46]
- Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Chicago).[38]
- Mary H. Krout (Chicago).[46]
- Maydie Spaulding Lee (Springfield).[20]
- Lena Morrow Lewis (Chicago).[47]
- Mary Livermore.[19]
- Elizabeth F. Long (Barry).[5]
- Judith Weil Loewenthal (Chicago).[36]
- Andrew MacLeish (Chicago).[38]
- Ellen A. Martin (Lombard).[14]
- Mary Mather (Sangamon County).[20]
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Evanston).[48]
- Henry Neil (Chicago).[38]
- Agnes Nestor (Chicago).[13]
- Anna Nicholes.[15]
- Maude Gregg Palmer (Springfield).[20]
- Fannie H. Rastall.[46]
- Harriet Reed (Springfield).[20]
- Susan Hoxie Richardson (Earlville).[19]
- Mabel Sippy (Chicago).[18]
- Julia Holmes Smith.[40]
- Eva Munson Smith.[46]
- Elmira E. Springer.[15]
- Belle Squire (Chicago).[31]
- Ida Staggall.[49]
- Ella Stewart.[10]
- Mary Thomas.[50]
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Grace Wilbur Trout (marked with x) after her return from Springfield and the campaign for women's votes, June 14, 1913 - Helen Todd (Chicago).[51]
- Grace Wilbur Trout (Oak Park).[52]
- Elsie Unterman (Chicago).[26]
- Mary L. Walker.[53]
- Clara Barck Welles (Chicago).[54]
- Ida B. Wells (Chicago).[26]
- Frances Willard.[19]
- Fannie Barrier Williams (Chicago).[26]
- Jennie Willing (Rockford).[55]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Martin B. Bailey.[56]
- Charles Bogardus.[3]
- James Bradwell.[29]
- Charles H. Carmon (Forrest).[57]
- Orrin N. Carter.[58]
- Miles B. Castle.[47]
- Albert C. Clark.[56]
- Michael H. Cleary.[56]
- William A. Compton.[56]
- Reuben W. Coon.[59]
- John M. Curran.[57]
- Edward C. Curtis.[56]
- George W. Curtis.[3]
- Samuel A. Ettelson.[56]
- Isaiah T. Greenacre.[36]
- George W. Harris.[56]
- Logan Hay.[56]
- Hugh S. Magill.[56]
- Walter Clyde Jones.[56]
- Kent E. Keller.[56]
- Walter I. Manny.[56]
- Medill McCormick.[57]
- Willard McEwen.[36]
- Thomas J. McMillan.[15]
- Fayette S. Munro (Highland Park).[57]
- Barratt O'Hara.[56]
- W. Duff Piercy.[56]
- Murray F. Tuley.[15]
- Richards S. Tuthill.[38]
- Emil N. Zolla (Chicago).[57]
Places
- Leland Hotel (Springfield).[4]
- Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago).[60]
Publications
- The Agitator, created in 1869.[61]
Suffragists campaigning in Illinois
Mabel Vernon speaks on the corner of E. Van Buren St and South Michigan Ave in Chicago on June 16, 1916
- Susan B. Anthony.[62]
- Henry B. Blackwell.[63]
- Celia Burleigh.[63]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[47]
- Miriam M. Cole.[63]
- Phoebe Couzins.[63]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[47]
- Helen M. Gougar.[47]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[47]
- Isabella Beecher Hooker.[63]
- Julia Ward Howe.[63]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[33]
- Lilly Peckham.[63]
- Mary Whitney Phelps.[64]
- Parker Pillsbury.[63]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[47]
- Ethel Snowden.[33]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[62]
- Lucy Stone.[47]
- Mabel Vernon.[65]
- Zerelda G. Wallace.[47]
Anti-suffragists
Groups
- Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, formed in 1897.[8]
People
- Anton J. Cermak (Chicago).[66]
- Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago).[8]
- Levy Mayer (Chicago).[67]
- Emma Oglesby (Elkhart).[42]
See also
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- Harper 1922, p. 149.
- Anthony 1902, p. 600.
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Sources
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