List of Indiana suffragists

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

Groups

• Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society. ^[1]

Suffragists

• Georgia Alexander (1868–1928), textbook author and educator; Director, Woman's Franchise League of Indiana (affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association). ^[2]
• Helen Vickroy Austin (1829–1921) – journalist, horticulturist, suffragist. ^[3]
• Marion Harvie Barnard (1872-1969) - treasurer of the Indiana NAWSA chapter. ^[4]
• Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement. ^[5]
• Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. ^[6]
• Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist. ^[7]
• Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician. ^[8]
• Elizabeth Bunnell Read (1832–1909) – published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War; ^[9] Vice-president, Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society; President of the Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society. ^[1]

Suffragists campaigning in Indiana

• Margaret Foley. ^[10]

References

1. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "READ, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bunnell". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 600–01. Retrieved 23 March 2024– via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
2. "Who's Who in Indiana". Indiana, Past and Present. 1 (3). M. R. Hyman Company: 11, 17, 22. June 1914. Retrieved 4 May 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. "AUSTIN, Mrs. Helen Vickroy". Woman of the Century. MaryKate McMaster. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
4. Harper 1922, p. 167.
5. "Ida Husted Harper". Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
6. Poletika, Nicole (2022-01-27). "'A Hundred Years From Now—What?:' Mary Garrett Hay Predicts Life in 2022". The Indiana History Blog. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
7. Loiselle, Aimee. "Biography of Mary McCurdy (Martha "Mary" Harris Mason McCurdy), 1852–1934". Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists. Alexander Street. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
8. "A Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of La Porte County, Indiana, Commemorating the Centennial of the Raatification of the Nineteenth Amendment and Honoring Women's Equality Day" (PDF). Board of Commissioners of La Porte County, Indiana. 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
9. American journalism. Conway, AR: American Journalism Historians Association. 1983. p. 2. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
10. "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved 7 August 2024.

Sources

• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.