This is a list of Kansas suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Kansas.
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This is a list of Kansas suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Kansas.
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Rebecca Naylor Hazard was a 19th-century American philanthropist, suffragist, reformer, and writer from the U.S. state of Ohio. With a few other women, she formed the Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri and an Industrial Home for Girls in St. Louis. She organized a society known as the Freedmen's Aid Society, and served as president of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Laura M. Johns was an American suffragist and journalist. She served as president of the Kansas State Suffrage Association six times, and her great work was the arrangement of thirty conventions beginning in Kansas City in February, 1892. She also served as president of the Kansas Republican Woman's Association, superintendent of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and field organizer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Johns died in 1935.
Sophie Naylor Grubb was a 19th-century American activist. During the civil war, she began to manifest the ability, energy and enthusiasm for activism that distinguished her through life. She published leaflets and tracts on all the issues of the temperance movement in seventeen languages, at the rate of fifty editions of 10,000 each per year. She lectured on the issue of women's suffrage, holding 75 meetings in Kansas in 1898. Grubb died in 1902.
Mary Gray Peck was an American journalist, educator, suffragist, and clubwoman. She was interested in economic and industrial problems of women, and investigated labor conditions in Europe and the United States. Born in New York, she studied at Elmira College, University of Minnesota, and University of Cambridge before becoming an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Later, she became associated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs, College Equal Suffrage League, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Women's Trade Union League, Woman Suffrage Party, and the Modern Language Association. Peck was a delegate at the Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Stockholm, 1911.
Octavia Williams Bates was an American suffragist, clubwoman, and author of the long nineteenth century. She was involved with women's movements associated with higher education and political enfranchisement. Bates was probably officially connected with more societies looking to these ends than any other woman of her time in Michigan, if not in the U.S. She traveled in various parts of the U.S. and Canada, and was specially interested in the woman suffrage movement. In 1899, after attending a conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Bates was so attracted to the city that she made it her permanent home.
Janette Hill Knox was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor. She served as President of the New Hampshire State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
S. Grace Nicholes was an American social reformer. Like her sister, Anna E. Nicholes, she was a suffragist, a clubwoman, and a co-founder of Neighborhood House Chicago.
Clara Bancroft Beatley was an American educator, lecturer, and author, as well as a clubwoman and suffragist. A a descendant of staunch Unitarians, for many years, she served as the principal of the Church of the Disciples school in Boston, Massachusetts.
Martia L. Davis Berry was a 19th-century American social reformer. From her childhood, she took for her life motto and work, "God and home and native land" in whatever opportunities might be available to her. She organized the first Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church west of the Missouri River and the first woman's Club in Cawker City, Kansas. She served as State treasurer of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association and president of the sixth district of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Jane Agnes Stewart was an American author, editor, and contributor to periodicals. She was a special writer for many journals on subjects related to woman's, religious, educational, sociological, and reform movements. Stewart was a suffragist and temperance activist. She traveled to London, Edinburgh, and Paris as a delegate of world's reform and religious conventions.
Belle de Rivera was an American clubwoman and a leader in the woman's club movement. She was a co-founder of 26 women's organizations between 1890 and 1915, including the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, subsequently becoming its first president. Rivera was also an active suffragist, serving as president of the New York Equal Suffrage League.
Elizabeth Barr Arthur was an American poet, author, journalist, librarian, and suffragist. In 1913, she joined the police force in Topeka, Kansas, together with Eva Corning, the two of them becoming the first women in the U.S. to hold positions of regular patrolmen. She was the editor and publisher of the Club Member and Current Topics papers. She was a prolific author, writing editorial, historical and feature pieces, but she preferred to be remembered as a poet.
Regina Khayatt was an Egyptian educator, philanthropist, feminist, suffragist, and temperance worker. She was the founder and president of the National Woman's Christian Training Center, founder of the Egyptian Young Women's Christian Association YWCA, and a founding member of the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU).
Sarah C. Hall (1832–1926) was an American pioneer woman physician. She held leadership positions in various women's suffrage organizations. She was also associated with the Order of the Eastern Star, the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC), and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . 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.