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

• Equal Suffrage League. ^[1]
• Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society. ^[2]
• Indiana Women's Suffrage Association ^[3]
• Woman's Franchise League of Indiana ^[4]

Suffragists

Indianapolis suffragists march on state assembly 4 March 1913

• Georgia Alexander (1868–1928), textbook author and educator; Director, Woman's Franchise League of Indiana (affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association). ^[5]
• Helen Vickroy Austin (1829–1921) – journalist, horticulturist, suffragist. ^[6]
• Marion Harvie Barnard (1872–1969) - treasurer of the Indiana NAWSA chapter. ^[7]
• Grace Julian Clarke (1865–1938) - women's suffrage activist, clubwoman, journalist ^[8]
• Frances Berry Coston (1876–1960) - journalist, educator, suffragist ^[9]
• Helen M. Gougar (1843–1907) - lawyer, temperance advocate and suffragist. ^[10]
• Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement. ^[11]
• Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. ^[12]
• Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist. ^[13]
• Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician. ^[14]
• Elizabeth Bunnell Read (1832–1909) – published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War; ^[15] Vice-president, Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society; President of the Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society. ^[2]
• Carrie Barnes Ross (1880s-1918) - served as president of Branch No. 7 of the Equal Suffrage League of Indiana, composed of members from Indianapolis's Black community. ^[1]
• Mary Frame Thomas (1816–1888) - physician and suffragist. ^[16]
• Amanda Way (1828–1914) - temperance advocate and suffragist. ^[17]
• Mary Holloway Wilhite (1831–1892) – physician, philanthropist; woman's suffrage and women's rights leader. ^[18]

Suffragists campaigning in Indiana

• Margaret Foley. ^[19]
• Frances Dana Barker Gage ^[20]

References

1. Nahmias, Leah (March 11, 2020). "The Black Women Suffragists of Indiana". Indy Maven. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
2. 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 March 23, 2024– via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. "Indiana's First Woman's Rights Convention". Indiana Historical Bureau State Historical Markers. 2003. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
4. Morgan, Anita (2020). "We Must be Fearless": The Woman Suffrage Movement In Indiana. Indiana Historical Society Press. p. 106. ISBN   9780871954381.
5. "Who's Who in Indiana". Indiana, Past and Present. 1 (3). M. R. Hyman Company: 11, 17, 22. June 1914. Retrieved May 4, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
6. "AUSTIN, Mrs. Helen Vickroy". Woman of the Century. MaryKate McMaster. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
7. Harper 1922, p. 167.
8. "Grace Julian Clarke". Indiana Historical Bureau State Historical Markers. 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
9. Verderame, Jyoti A. (2022). "Frances Berry Coston". Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
10. IHB (December 16, 2020). "Helen M Gougar". IHB. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
11. "Ida Husted Harper". Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
12. Poletika, Nicole (January 27, 2022). "'A Hundred Years From Now—What?:' Mary Garrett Hay Predicts Life in 2022". The Indiana History Blog. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
13. 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.
14. "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 October 28, 2024.
15. American journalism. Conway, AR: American Journalism Historians Association. 1983. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
16. "Dr. Mary F. Thomas, 1816-1888". Indiana Historical Bureau State Historical Markers. 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
17. "Amanda Way". Indiana Historical Bureau State Historical Markers. 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
18. "Dr Mary Holloway Wilhite 1831-1892". Indiana Historical Bureau. December 16, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
19. "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
20. Morgan, Anita (2020). "We Must Be Fearless": The Woman Suffrage Movement in Indiana. Indiana Historical Society Press. p. 25. ISBN   9780871954381.

Sources

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