List of Kansas suffragists

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

Groups

• 

  Delegates to the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association in Topeka 1916

  Barber County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Bourbon County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[2]
• Chautauqua County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Comanche County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Crawford County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Dickinson County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Douglas County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Edwards County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Ford County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Good Government Club. ^[1]
• Harper County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Kansas Equal Suffrage Association (KESA). ^[3]
• Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs. ^[1]
• Kingman Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Kiowa County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Labette County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Lawrence Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Lincoln Suffrage Society. ^[1]
• Manhattan Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Meade County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Medicine Lodge Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• The Men's League. ^[1]
• National Woman's Party. ^[4]
• Norton County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Ogden Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Oswego Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Ottawa County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Pawnee County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Reno County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Topeka Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ^[1]
• Woman's Day Club. ^[1]
• Zeandale Equal Suffrage Association. ^[1]

Publications

• Kansas Sunflower. ^[1]

Suffragists

• Kate Aplington (Council Grove). ^[1]
• Daniel Read Anthony (Leavenworth). ^[1]
• Daniel R. Anthony Jr. (Leavenworth). ^[1]
• Elizabeth Barr Arthur (1884–1971) – suffragist from Kansas; poet, author, journalist, librarian, and police officer. ^[5]
• Martia L. Davis Berry (1844–1894) – treasurer, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association. ^[6]
• Iris Calderhead (Marysville). ^[1]
• William Herbert Carruth (Lawrence). ^[1]
• Mamie Dillard (1874–1954) – African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist. ^[7]
• Trixie Friganza (Grenola). ^[1]
• Mary Tenney Gray (1833–1904) – writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, suffragist. ^[8]
• Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb (1834–1902), temperance activist. ^[9]
• Sarah C. Hall (1832–1926) – physician; President, Bourbon County, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association. ^[2]
• Edgar Watson Howe (Atchinson). ^[1]
• Laura M. Johns (1849–1935) – suffragist, journalist (Salina). ^[10]
• Lucy Browne Johnston (1846–1937) – president of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs, and was involved in the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association. ^[3]
• Lilla Day Monroe (1858–1929) – Kansas suffragist, lawyer. ^[4]
• Ella Uphay Mowry (1865–1923) – Kansas suffragist and the first female gubernatorial candidate in Kansas. ^[11]
• May Wood Simons (Girard). ^[1]
• Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association. ^{[12] [13]}
• Ella B Ensor Wilson (1838–1913) – social reformer. ^[14]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Jonathan M. Davis. ^[1]
• William Agnew Johnston. ^[1]
• John Martin. ^[1]

Suffragists campaigning in Kansas

• Sylvia Pankhurst. ^[1]
• Frances Woods. ^[15]

See also

• List of American suffragists
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. "Suffragists in Kansas". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Archived from the original on June 30, 2024. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
2. "Bourbon County Equal Suffrage Association". The Fort Scott Weekly Tribune. November 28, 1889. p. 5. Retrieved April 18, 2024– via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Collins, Kripa. "Biographical Sketch of Lucy Browne Johnston". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920– via Alexander Street.
4. Clarke, Ida Clyde; Miller, Laura, eds. (1923). Women of 1923 International. Chicago: John C. Winston Co.
5. "Elizabeth Barr – Librarian – Bio". The Johnson County Democrat. January 4, 1923. p. 1. Retrieved July 30, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
6. Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle publishing Company. Retrieved May 28, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
7. "Kansas and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
8. "Voices: Women's Suffrage in Kansas, for "We Will Vote!" (Fall 1997)". Voices: The Kansas Collection Online Magazine. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
9. C.B. Kirtland Publishing Company 1898, p. 211-12.
10. "Salinan part of Kansas Museum of History exhibit". Salina Post. March 11, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2024.
11. "Less of Oratory and More Work Novel Platform," The Alliance Review and Leader, April 21, 1922.
12. Connelley, William Elsey (1912). A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, Volume 2. Lewis. pp. 297–298.
13. Addams, Jane; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Harper, Ida Husted; Shaw, Anna Howard; Gage, Matilda; Anthony, Susan B.; Blatch, Harriot Stanton; Blackwell, Alice Stone (2018). Votes for Women: Complete History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in U.S. (Including Biographies & Memoirs of Most Influential Suffragettes): Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams. e-artnow. ISBN   9788026884774.
14. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "WILSON, Mrs. Augustus". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 787–88. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
15. Lindell, Lisa (Summer 2014). "A Woman of Her Time: Dr. Frances Woods and the Intersection of War, Expansionism and Equal Rights". Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications. 24: 15–16 – via Open Prairie.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :C.B. Kirtland Publishing Company (1898). "DO KANSAS WOMEN WANT TO VOTE? BY SOPHIE NAYLOR GRUBB". The Agora. Vol. 2 (Public domain ed.). C.B. Kirtland Publishing Company.