List of New Jersey suffragists
Appearance
This is a list of New Jersey suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in New Jersey.
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Groups
[edit] New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is formed in 1915.[1]Suffragists leaving for the White House in 1913 - Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, organized in 1910.[2]
- Equal Justice League, formed in Bayonne in 1911.[3]
- Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys.[4]
- Essex County Suffrage Society.[5]
- Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party.[6]
- Montclair Equal Suffrage League.[7]
- National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey.[8]
- New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League.[4]
- New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910.[2]
- New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).[9]
- New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867.[10]
- Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898.[11]
- Progressive Woman Suffrage Society.[8]
- Rutherford Equal Suffrage League.[12]
- Sewaren Equal Suffrage League.[13]
- Vineland Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1866.[14]
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union.[12]
- Woman's Political Union of New Jersey.[5]
Suffragists
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- Minnie Abbott (Atlantic City).[8]
- Minnie Adams (Sewaren).[13]
- Caroline B. Alexander (Hoboken).[15]
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Elizabeth).[10]
- Emma L. Blackwell.[16]
- Henry Browne Blackwell (Orange).[17]
- Cornelia Foster Bradford.[12]
- Augusta Cooper Bristol (Vineland).[18]
- Charlotte Emerson Brown.[19]
- Ida E. Duckett Brown.[9]
- Katharine H. Browning (West Orange).[20]
- Mary E. Cary Burrell (Essex County).[21]
- Harriet Frances Carpenter (Newark).[22][23]
- Flora Gapen Charters.[24]
- Edith H. Colby (West Orange).[25]
- Mary Kendall Loring Colvin (East Orange).[26]
- Henrietta Green Crawford (Vineland).[27]
- Agnes M. Cromwell (Mendham).[28]
- Seymour L. Cromwell.[29]
- May Chase Cummings (Middlesex County).[30]
- Fanny B. Downs (Orange).[31]
- Sarah Corson Downs.[32]
- Mary Dubrow (Passaic).[8]
- Thomas Edison (West Orange).[33]
- Charlotte N. Enslin (Orange).[34]
- Bertha L. Fearey (East Orange).[31]
- Lillian Feickert.[35]
- Florence F. Foster.[2]
- Susan Pecker Fowler (Vineland).[36]
- Cecilia Gaines (Jersey City).[37]
- Emma O. Gantz (East Orange).[15]
- Angelina Grimké.[38]
- Sarah Moore Grimké.[38]
- Florence Howe Hall.[31]
- Phebe Hanaford (Jersey City).[39][40]
- Alma Arabella Parker Harvey (Deal).[41]
- Carrie H. Henry (Jersey City).[25]
- Alison Turnbull Hopkins (Morristown).[8]
- Julia Hurlbut (Morristown).[8]
- Cornelia C. Hussey (East Orange).[20]
- Mary D. Hussey (East Orange).[31]
- Anna B. Jeffery.[42]
- Elizabeth A. Kingsbury (Vineland).[43]
- Beatrice Kinkead (Montclair).[44]
- Martha Klatscken (East Orange).[8]
- Clara Schlee Laddey.[45]
- Harriet Lafetra (Monmouth).[17]
- Alice Lakey (Cranford).[25]
- Amelia Berndt Moorfield (Newark).[46]
- Mary Pattison (Colonia).[1]
- Alice Paul (Mt. Laurel).[8]
- Mary Philbrook (Newark).[37]
- Aaron Macy Powell.[47]
- Anita Stillman Quarles (Hoboken).[48]
- Florence Spearing Randolph.[49]
- Ella M. Rice (Middlesex County).[49]
- Linton Satterthwaite (Trenton).[50]
- Melinda Scott (Newark).[51]
- Phoebe Scott (Morristown).[8]
- Agnes Anne Schermerhorn (East Orange).[52]
- Therese Walling Seabrook (Keyport).[53]
- Sarah E. Selover (South River).[54]
- Minola Graham Sexton (Orange).[11]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Tenafly).[55][14]
- Lucy Stone (Orange).[10][17]
- Rhea Vickers.[56]
- Mina Van Winkle.[50]
New Jersey suffragists, c. 1919 or 1920
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
[edit]- William Miller Baird.[57]
- Robert Carey (Jersey City).[29]
- Thomas Chattle.[58]
- Everett Colby.[29]
- Walter Evans Edge.[44]
- Charles M. Egan (Jersey City).[59]
- John Franklin Fort.[60]
- William C. Gebhardt (Hunterdon County).[56]
- Charles O'Connor Hennessy (Bergen County).[29]
- Henry Lafetra (Monmouth).[17]
- Victor Mavalag (Elizabeth).[60]
- Walter I. McCoy.[61]
- William Lawrence Saunders (Plainfield).[62]
- Judge John Whitehead.[19]
- Alexander Wilder (Newark).[63]
- Grant Griesman (Bowdoin ‘24)
- Alan Casey (from Madrid)
Suffragists campaigning in New Jersey
[edit]- Alice Stone Blackwell.[64]
- Lillie Devereux Blake.[65]
- Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg.[16]
- Harriot Stanton Blatch.[16]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[65]
- Mariana Wright Chapman.[20]
- Liska Stillman Churchill.[66]
- Annie Le Porte Diggs.[65]
- Rheta Childe Dorr.[3]
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman.[56]
- Kate M. Gordon.[20]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[20]
- Clara Cleghorn Hoffman.[34]
- Julia Ward Howe.[67]
- Fola La Follette.[66]
- Mary Livermore.[67]
- Sophia Loebinger.[45]
- Ellis Meredith.[16]
- George Middleton.[66]
- Florence Miller.[16]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[2]
- Emily Pierson.[54]
- Minnie Reynolds.[50]
- Helen Ring Robinson.[68]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[20]
- Mary Church Terrell.[69]
- Mabel Vernon.[70]
- Fanny Garrison Villard.[56]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates.[65]
Anti-suffragists
[edit]Groups
- Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey.[71]
- New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) is formed in 1912.[50]
People
- Anna Dayton (Trenton).[72]
- Georgiana Breese.[50]
- Frances Cleveland (Princeton).[72]
- Harriet Clark Fisher (Trenton).[73]
- Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (Trenton).[74]
- John A. Matthews (Newark).[74]
- William Francis Magie (Princeton).[71]
- Blanche O. Roebling (Trenton).[75]
Anti-suffragists campaigning in New Jersey
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b Perrone 2021, p. 42.
- ^ a b c d Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 21.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 419.
- ^ a b Perrone 2021, p. 33.
- ^ a b "Suffrage Plans in Jersey". Perth Amboy Evening News. 1912-01-08. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-07-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 330.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 318.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Suffragists in New Jersey". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ a b Adams, Betty Livingston. "Biographical Sketch of Ida E. Duckett Brown". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ^ a b c Gittleman, Nicole (2020-08-17). "The History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in New Jersey". Hoboken Girl. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ a b Hendrickson, Lisa. "NJ Suffragists – Minola Graham Sexton 1859-1922". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ a b c McGoldrick & Crocco 1993, p. 38.
- ^ a b Perrone 2021, p. 34.
- ^ a b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 10.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 416.
- ^ a b c d e Harper 1922, p. 414.
- ^ a b c d Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 8.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 217.
- ^ a b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 18.
- ^ a b c d e f Harper 1922, p. 413.
- ^ Livingston Adams, Betty. "Biographical Sketch of Mary E. Cary Burrell". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ^ "Women's Suffrage in the Early Twentieth Century". On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Middlesex County. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
- ^ "Harriet Frances Carpenter". Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide. Vol. 1. 1917. pp. 55–56, 80–81. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
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- ^ Harper 1922, p. 423.
- ^ a b c Dodyk 1997, p. 307.
- ^ Williams, Victoria (2008-08-28). "These NJ women fought for right to vote". Gloucester County Times. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
- ^ Johnson, James Elton. "Biographical Sketch of Henrietta Green Crawford". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ Rex, Katrina. "NJ Suffragists – Agnes M. Cromwell (1874-1959)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ a b c d "Edison, Harvey, Hughes and Other Leading Men Refute Senator Martine". Passaic Daily News. 1915-10-07. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Perrone 2021, p. 35.
- ^ a b c d Harper 1922, p. 412.
- ^ McGoldrick & Crocco 1993, p. 25.
- ^ "Edison Comes Out Unqalifiedly for Suffrage". Passaic Daily News. 1915-10-07. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 820.
- ^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 24.
- ^ Getzinger, Diane. "Biographical Sketch of Susan Pecker Fowler". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ a b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 19.
- ^ a b Dodyk 1997, p. 23.
- ^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 15.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 204.
- ^ Hooton, Chole Belle. "Biographical Sketch of Alma Arabella Parker Harvey". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ Brow, Kelsey. "NJ Suffragists – Anna B. Jeffery (1847-1938)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. p. 90. ISBN 0813816025.
- ^ a b "Period IV". New Jersey Women's History. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ^ a b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 20.
- ^ Robb, George. "NJ Suffragists – Amelia Berndt Moorfield (1876-1950)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 253.
- ^ Robb, George. "NJ Suffragists – Anita Stillman Quarles (1887-1971)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ a b Perrone 2021, p. 46.
- ^ a b c d e f Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 23.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 324.
- ^ Hendrickson, Lisa. "NJ Suffragist Biographies". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 202.
- ^ a b Perrone 2021, p. 36.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 23-24.
- ^ a b c d Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 22.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 208.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 205.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 343.
- ^ a b Dodyk 1997, p. 309.
- ^ Irwin 1921, p. 40.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 308-309.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 210.
- ^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 34.
- ^ a b c d Anthony 1902, p. 822.
- ^ a b c Dodyk 1997, p. 387.
- ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 821.
- ^ McGoldrick & Crocco 1993, p. 40.
- ^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 35.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 357.
- ^ a b Mappen, Marc (1990-10-14). "JERSEYANA". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- ^ a b Dodyk 1997, p. 327.
- ^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 22-23.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 424.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 350.
- ^ "Woman Suffrage Battle Opens in New Jersey As Antis Unlimber Big Guns". The Chatham Press. 1915-05-29. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dodyk 1997, p. 349.
Sources
[edit]- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Dodyk, Delight Wing (May 1997). "Education and Agitation: The Woman Suffrage Movement in New Jersey". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest 304363653 – via ProQuest.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Irwin, Inez Haynes (1921). The Story of the Woman's Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.
- Levin, Carol Simon; Dodyk, Delight Wing (March 2020). "Reclaiming Our Voice" (PDF). Garden State Legacy. Susanna Rich. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- McGoldrick, Neale; Crocco, Margaret (1993). Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey (PDF). New Jersey Council for the Humanities. OCLC 29178051.
- Perrone, Fernanda H. (2021). On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Middlesex County (PDF). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Arts Institute of Middlesex County. p. 21.