This is a list of Nebraska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Nebraska.
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This is a list of Nebraska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Nebraska.
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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).
Marion Howard Dunham was an American teacher, temperance activist, and suffragist. She entered upon the temperance field in 1877 with the inauguration of the red ribbon movement in her state of Iowa, but believing in more permanent effort, she was the prime agitator in the organization of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). In 1883, she was elected state superintendent of the Department of Scientific Temperance and held the office for four years lecturing to institutes and general audiences on that subject most of the time. She procured the "Prohibitory law of the state of Iowa", in February 1886. When the Iowa State Temperance Union began to display its opposition to the national W.C.T.U., she came to be considered a leader on the side of the minority who adhered to the national and when the majority in the state union seceded from the national union October 16, 1890, she was elected president of those remaining auxiliary to that body. She spent a large part of her time in the field lecturing on temperance.
Mary Ingram Stille was an American historian, journalist, and temperance reformer. The early success of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) in Pennsylvania was largely due through her efforts.
Mary Eliza Hayward was an American businesswoman, the first businesswoman of Chadron, Nebraska. For 50 years, as proprietor of the M. E. Smith & Co. Twin Stores of Chadron, she was a dry goods merchant, one of the very successful businesswomen of the state. For years, she was one of the most prominent woman suffragists of Nebraska, was a State member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, was honorary president of the Nebraska Equal Suffrage Association, and gave both time and money in generous amounts for the cause of woman suffrage in Nebraska.
Jennie Florella Holmes was an American temperance activist and suffragist. She served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Nebraska State Suffrage Society and President of the Nebraska State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Henriette Willemina Crommelin was a Dutch labor leader and temperance reformer. She was also a suffragist and a member of a suffrage society.
Mamie Claflin was an American temperance and woman suffrage leader. In addition to serving six years as president of the Nebraska Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) (1912–18), for 16 years, she was also the editor and publisher of its organ, The Union Worker.
Minnie Rutherford Fuller was an American farmer, broker, temperance leader, suffragist, and lobbyist. She served as president of the Arkansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).
T. Adelaide Goodno was an American social reformer associated with the suffrage and a temperance movements. She served as president of the North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Jennie Hart Sibley (1846–1917) was a prominent figure in the state of Georgia, holding leadership roles within various organizations, particularly in the American temperance movement. She served as the second president of the Georgia State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), succeeding her sister-in-law, Jane E. Sibley. She was also Greene County's president of the Daughters of the Confederacy as well as the inaugural president of the Union Point Garden Club, sometimes referred to as "The Mother of Georgia garden clubs". Sibley is also remembered for her advocacy in the suffrage movement.
Orpha Jane "Jennie" Murray Kemp was an American temperance movement leader, writer, and newspaper circulator, nationally known for her work with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and for her Food Administration campaigning during World War I. For 50 years, Kemp was an active WCTU worker. She campaigned vigorously through California and Oregon in the interests of prohibition. She served as president of the Oregon WCTU and later as secretary of the National WCTU. Kemp was editor and publisher of Our Messenger, 1889–1903; circulation manager of The Union Signal, and The Young Crusader, 1903–12; and National WCTU press superintendent since 1912.
Eugenia St. John Mann was an American ordained minister, evangelist, temperance lecturer, and suffragist. She served as national evangelist of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), President of the Illinois WCTU, and national lecturer of the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT). St. John became ordained a minister in the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and in 1892, was elected to the General Conference, being the first woman who ever sat as delegate in the General Conference of that denomination in the U.S. Mann held pastorates in ten churches, retiring from active work in 1920. She was known as a gifted orator who also composed her own songs for her evangelistic work. Mann also served as President of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, 1885–95.
Mary T. Jeffries (1863–1930) was an American temperance advocate and Prohibitionist. For 12 years, she served as President of the Alabama Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). From 1927 to 1928, she was an appointive member of the Alabama State Board of Education under Governor, Bibb Graves.
Lillian M. Mitchner was an American social reformer associated with the temperance and suffrage movements. She served as President of the Kansas State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 28 years, and Superintendent of the Kansas Industrial School for Girls.
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).
Deborah G. King was an American Women's Crusader, Prohibition advocate, and suffragist, who worked along all reform lines. She shared with her husband in all the pioneer experiences in Minnesota and she lived to witness almost the entire growth of Lincoln, Nebraska. In August 1886, King was elected National Inspector of the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC) at the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and WRC held at Portland, Maine, and later, at a national encampment held at Minneapolis, Minnesota. She advocated and had adopted, in spite of strong opposition, the measure providing that eligibility to the WRC be broadened to include all loyal women instead of relatives of soldiers only, as was then the case. In 1896, King founded and was the first President of the Woman's Bimetallic League, which advocated the silver standard and was, at the time, the only political organization for women in the U.S.
Sarah Galt Elwood McKee (1842–1934) was a Canadian social reformer and temperance leader. For many years, she worked actively in several fields of philanthropic work. McKee served as president of the Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Minnie E. Neal (1858–1945) was an American photographer and temperance leader. She served as President of the Florida State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and the first Treasurer of the Professional Photographers' Association of Florida.
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