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 (WCTU) of Illinois. ^[3]
• Women's Trade Union League (WTUL). ^[21]

Suffragists

Susan E. Allen Cannon of Galeburg, Illinois, in 1922

• Sadie Lewis Adams (Chicago). ^[22]
• Jane Addams. ^[23]
• Mary A. Ahrens (Chicago). ^[24]
• Royal Allen. ^[25]
• Susan E. Allen Cannon (Galesburg). ^[26]
• Naomi Talbert Anderson (Chicago). ^[27]
• Susan Look Avery (Chicago). ^[6]
• Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer. (Chicago). ^[28]
• Eugenia M. Bacon. ^[15]
• Laura Beasley (Chicago). ^[29]
• Ella G. Berry (Chicago). ^[30]
• Kizziah J. Bills (Chicago). ^[31]
• Anna Blount (Oak Park). ^[32]
• Elizabeth K. Booth (Glencoe). ^[33]
• Louise DeKoven Bowen (Chicago). ^[27]
• Myra Colby Bradwell. ^[34]
• Sophonisba Breckinridge (Chicago). ^[35]
• Virginia Brooks (Chicago). ^[36]
• Adella Maxwell Brown (Peoria). ^[37]
• Laura Robinson Campbell (East St. Louis) ^[38]
• Agnes Chase. ^[27]
• Mary C. Clarke (Chicago). ^[39]
• George E. Cole (Chicago). ^[15]
• Lydia Avery Coonley-Ward (Chicago). ^[6]
• Prudence Crandall. ^[19]
• Caroline Bartlett Crane (Chicago). ^[40]
• Gertrude Crocker (Hinsdale). ^[27]
• Ruth Crocker (Hinsdale). ^[27]
• Susan Lawrence Dana (Sangamon County). ^[20]
• Cornelia De Bey (Chicago). ^[41]
• Margaret Dobyne. ^[42]
• Kate N. Doggett (Chicago). ^[43]
• Elvira Downey (Clinton). ^[8]
• Ida Darling Engelke (Chicago). ^[44]
• Elizabeth Hawley Everett (Highland Park). ^[45]
• Lucy H. Ewing (Chicago). ^[27]
• Janet Kellogg Fairbank (Chicago). ^[46]
• Samuel Fallows (Chicago). ^[47]
• Clara M. Farson (St. Charles). ^[48]
• Henry B. Favill (Chicago). ^[47]
• Lucy Flower. ^[49]
• Antoinette Funk (Chicago). ^[17]
• Sophie Gibb (Decatur). ^[8]
• Catherine Goggin (Chicago). ^[5]
• Harriet Grim (Chicago). ^[8]
• Emily M. Gross. ^[6]
• Alonzo Jackson Grover (Earlville). ^[50]
• Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (Evanston). ^{[34] [5]}
• Margaret Haley (Chicago). ^[5]
• Effie Henderson (Bloomington). ^[51]
• Mary Emma Holmes (Chicago) ^[52]
• Carrie S. Cook Horton (Chicago). ^[53]
• Kate Hughes (Table Grove). ^{[54] [49]}
• Alta Hulett. ^[34]
• Adelaide Johnson. ^[55]
• Carrie Ashton Johnson (Rockford). ^[56]
• Mary Jane Richardson Jones (Chicago). ^[57]
• Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Chicago). ^[47]
• Lillian G. Kohlhamer (Chicago). ^[58]
• Florence E. Kollock (Chicago). ^[59]
• Mary H. Krout (Chicago). ^[56]
• Maydie Spaulding Lee (Springfield). ^[20]
• Lena Morrow Lewis (Chicago). ^[60]
• Mary Livermore. ^[19]
• Elizabeth F. Long (Barry). ^[5]
• Judith Weil Loewenthal (Chicago). ^[44]
• Andrew MacLeish (Chicago). ^[47]
• Anna A. Maley. ^[61]
• Ellen A. Martin (Lombard). ^[14]
• Mary Mather (Sangamon County). ^[20]
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Evanston). ^[62]
• J. Howard Moore (Chicago). ^[63]
• Mary Foulke Morrisson (Chicago). ^[64]
• Henry Neil (Chicago). ^[47]
• Agnes Nestor (Chicago). ^[13]
• Anna E. Nicholes (Chicago). ^{[15] [65]}
• S. Grace Nicholes (Chicago). ^[66]
• Maude Gregg Palmer (Springfield). ^[20]
• Fannie H. Rastall. ^[56]
• Harriet Reed (Springfield). ^[20]
• Susan Hoxie Richardson (Earlville). ^[19]
• Mabel Sippy (Chicago). ^[18]
• Julia Holmes Smith. ^[49]
• Eva Munson Smith. ^[56]
• Elmira E. Springer. ^[15]
• Belle Squire (Chicago). ^[36]
• Ida Staggall. ^[67]
• Helen Ekin Starrett (Chicago).
• Ella S. Stewart. ^{[10] [61]}
• Mary Thomas. ^[68]

  

  Grace Wilbur Trout (marked with x) after her return from Springfield and the campaign for women's votes, June 14, 1913

• Helen Todd (Chicago). ^[69]
• Grace Wilbur Trout (Oak Park). ^[70]
• Elsie Unterman (Chicago). ^[27]
• Mary L. Walker. ^[71]
• Clara Barck Welles (Chicago). ^[72]
• Ida B. Wells (Chicago). ^[27]
• Frances Willard. ^[19]
• Fannie Barrier Williams (Chicago). ^[27]
• Jennie Willing (Rockford). ^[73]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Martin B. Bailey. ^[74]
• Charles Bogardus. ^[3]
• James Bradwell. ^[34]
• Charles H. Carmon (Forrest). ^[75]
• Orrin N. Carter. ^[76]
• Miles B. Castle. ^[60]
• Albert C. Clark. ^[74]
• Michael H. Cleary. ^[74]
• William A. Compton. ^[74]
• Reuben W. Coon. ^[77]
• John M. Curran. ^[75]
• Edward C. Curtis. ^[74]
• George W. Curtis. ^[3]
• Samuel A. Ettelson. ^[74]
• Isaiah T. Greenacre. ^[44]
• George W. Harris. ^[74]
• Logan Hay. ^[74]
• Hugh S. Magill. ^[74]
• Walter Clyde Jones. ^[74]
• Kent E. Keller. ^[74]
• Walter I. Manny. ^[74]
• Medill McCormick. ^[75]
• Willard McEwen. ^[44]
• Thomas J. McMillan. ^[15]
• Fayette S. Munro (Highland Park). ^[75]
• Barratt O'Hara. ^[74]
• W. Duff Piercy. ^[74]
• Murray F. Tuley. ^[15]
• Richards S. Tuthill. ^[47]
• Emil N. Zolla (Chicago). ^[75]

Places

• Leland Hotel (Springfield). ^[4]
• Pick-Congress Hotel (Chicago). ^[78]

Publications

• The Agitator, created in 1869. ^[79]

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. ^[80]
• Henry B. Blackwell. ^[81]
• Celia Burleigh. ^[81]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[60]
• Miriam M. Cole. ^[81]
• Phoebe Couzins. ^[81]
• Emma Smith DeVoe. ^[60]
• Margaret Foley. ^[82]
• Helen M. Gougar. ^[60]
• Mary Garrett Hay. ^[60]
• Isabella Beecher Hooker. ^[81]
• Julia Ward Howe. ^[81]
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury. ^[83]
• Emmeline Pankhurst. ^[40]
• Lilly Peckham. ^[81]
• Mary Whitney Phelps. ^[80]
• Parker Pillsbury. ^[81]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[60]
• Ethel Snowden. ^[40]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ^[80]
• Lucy Stone. ^[60]
• Mabel Vernon. ^[84]
• Zerelda G. Wallace. ^[60]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, formed in 1897. ^[8]

People

• Anton J. Cermak (Chicago). ^[85]
• Caroline Fairfield Corbin (Chicago). ^[8]
• Levy Mayer (Chicago). ^[86]
• Emma Susan Gillett Oglesby (Elkhart). ^[51]
• S. M. Nickerson ^[87]
• J. C. Fairfield ^[87]
• Geo. W. Smith ^[87]
• Ralph N. Isham ^[87]
• A. T. Galt ^[87]
• WM. Eliot Furness ^[87]
• Francis Lackner ^[87]
• Mary Pomeroy Green ^[87]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Illinois
• Women's suffrage in Illinois
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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