List of Ohio suffragists

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

Groups

Marguerite Molliter in Gayety Theater in Cincinnati supporting women's suffrage in 1914

• Cincinnati Central Suffrage Committee. ^[1]
• College Equal Suffrage League. ^[2]
• Columbus Equal Suffrage League. ^[2]
• Colored Women's Independent Political League (formerly the Colored Women's Republican Club). ^[3]
• Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Association (CCWSA), founded in 1910. Later became the Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party or the Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Party. ^[4]
• Dayton Woman's Suffrage Association (DWSA) is created around 1869. ^[5]
• Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association (FCWSA), formed in 1912. ^{[6] [2]}
• Hamilton County Suffrage Association. ^[7]
• Men's Equal Suffrage League, established in Cleveland in 1911. ^[8]
• Newbury Women's Suffrage Political Club. ^[9]
• Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, created in February 1912. ^[10]
• Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA), founded in 1885 in Painesville. ^[11]
• Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), first met in Ravenna on May 25, 1853. ^[12]
• Political Equality Club of Lima. ^[13]
• Shelby Equal Franchise Association, formed in 1912. ^[14]
• Sojourner Truth Women's Suffrage Association (STWSA). ^[2]
• Suffrage Association of Warren. ^[15]
• Suffrage Party of Lakewood. ^[16]
• Toledo Women's Suffrage Association (TWSA) is founded in 1869. ^[7]
• Woman Suffrage Party of Cleveland. ^[17]
• Woman's Suffrage Association of Dayton and Montgomery County, formed in 1912. ^[5]
• Woman's Suffrage Association of Richland County. ^[14]

Suffragists

Hallie Q. Brown and nieces Frances and Lois Brown in 1913

• Florence E. Allen (Cleveland). ^[7]
• Dora Bachman (Cincinnati). ^[18]
• Elizabeth Bisbee (Columbus). ^[19]
• Ella Reeve Bloor (Columbus). ^[20]
• Minerva Kline Brooks (Cleveland). ^[4]
• Hallie Quinn Brown (Wilberforce). ^[7]
• Mary Edith Campbell (1876–1962) – first woman elected to the Board of Education in Cincinnati. (Cincinnati). ^[21]
• Frances Jennings Casement. ^[22]
• Katharine Benedicta Trotter Claypole (Akron). ^[23]
• Carrie Williams Clifford (Cleveland). ^[24]
• Harris R. Cooley (Cleveland). ^[8]
• Elizabeth Greer Coit (Columbus). ^[22]
• Olive Colton (Toledo). ^[25]
• Hannah Cutler. ^[26]
• Eliza Archard Conner (New Richmond). ^[27]
• Anna Julia Cooper (Xenia). ^[28]
• Betsy Mix Cowles (Ashtabula County). ^[24]
• Bessie Crayton (Lima). ^[29]
• Lucile Atcherson Curtis (Columbus). ^[30]
• Hannah Cutler. ^[31]
• Carrie Chase Davis. ^[32]
• Jesse Davisson (Dayton). ^[5]
• Edward A. Deeds (Dayton). ^[5]
• Zell Hart Deming (Warren) – suffragist, philanthropist, newspaper editor and the treasurer of the Ohio State Suffrage Association ^[33]
• Mary Douglas (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Zara DuPont (1869–1946) – first vice president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (Cuyahoga). ^[34]
• Dora Easton (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Louise Eastman (Cincinnati). ^[35]
• Martha H. Elwell. ^[36]
• Caroline McCullough Everhard (1843–1902) – American banker and suffragist, president of the Ohio Suffrage Association (Massillon). ^[37]
• Sara Evan Fletcher ^[38]
• Ellen Sulley Fray (Toledo). ^{[22] [39]}
• Trixie Friganza (Cincinnati). ^[28]
• Frances Dana Gage. ^[19]
• Edith J. Goode (Springfield). ^[40]
• Josephine S. Griffing (Salem). ^[41]
• Mary Belle Grossman (Cleveland). ^[27]
• Laura C. Haeckl (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Elizabeth Hauser (Cleveland). ^[4]
• Gillette Hayden (1880–1929) – dentist and periodontist. ^[42]

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  Florence E. Allen marching for women's suffrage in 1913

  Jewelila Higgins (Dayton). ^[5]
• Josephine Saxer Irwin (Cuyahoga County). ^[43]
• Rachel S. A. Janney. ^[22]
• Jane Hitchcock Jones. ^[26]
• Harriet Keeler (Cleveland). ^[4]
• Belle Coit Kelton (Columbus). ^[44]
• Betsey Lewis (Warren). ^[45]
• Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley ^[46]
• Mary MacMillan (Cincinnati). ^[24]
• Helen Wise Mallony (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Lizzie Marvin (Shelby). ^[14]
• Lucia McCurdy McBride (Cleveland). ^[4]
• Dorothy Mead. ^[47]
• Marguerite Molliter (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Henrietta G. Moore (Springfield). ^[36]
• John Moore (president of the United Mine Workers of Ohio). ^[48]
• Rosa Moorman. ^[49]
• John H. Patterson (Dayton). ^[5]
• Emma Maud Perkins (Cleveland). ^[50]
• Edna Brush Perkins (Cleveland). ^[50]
• Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins (Cleveland). ^[51]
• Laura Proctor (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Mary Virginia Proctor (Lebanon). ^[52]
• Bernice Pyke (Lakewood). ^[53]
• H. Anna Quinby (Edenton). ^[54]
• Kenyon Hayden Rector (Columbus). ^[24]
• Nellie Robinson (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Viola D. Romans (Cincinnati). ^[24]
• Sarah C. Schrader. ^[36]
• Rosa L. Segur (Toledo). ^[22]
• Caroline Severance. ^[7]
• Lydia DeVilbiss Shauk (Shelby). ^[14]
• Belle Sherwin (Cleveland). ^[7]
• Sarah Siewers (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Ida Ricketts Snell (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Louise Southgate (Cincinnati). ^[35]
• Louisa Southworth (Cleveland). ^[36]
• Doris Stevens (Dayton). ^[55]
• Pauline Perlmutter Steinem (Toledo). ^[7]
• Charles F. Thwing (Cleveland). ^[8]
• Harriet Taylor Upton (Warren). ^{[56] [7]}
• Maude Edith Comstock Waitt (Lakewood). ^{[57] [24]}
• Myron B. Vorce (Cleveland). ^[58]
• Ella B Ensor Wilson (1838–1913) – social reformer. ^[59]
• Alma Kephart Wilson (Cincinnati). ^[1]
• Bettie Wilson (Cincinnati). ^[7]
• Peter Witt (Cleveland). ^[8]
• Clara Snell Wolfe. ^[60]
• Victoria Claflin Woodhull (Massillon). ^[37]
• Katharine Wright (Dayton). ^[5]
• Orville Wright (Dayton). ^[5]
• Mary Yeager (Cincinnati).

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Roland W. Baggott. ^[61]
• Newton D. Baker (Cleveland). ^[62]
• Ellsworth R. Bathrick (Akron). ^[63]
• James M. Cox (Dayton). ^[5]
• Joshua Giddings (Ashtabula County). ^[64]
• Tom L. Johnson (Cleveland). ^[62]
• William McKinley. ^[37]
• Jacob Henry Miller. ^[61]
• James A. Reynolds (Cuyahoga County). ^[4]
• Ezra B. Taylor (Warren). ^[65]
• Benjamin Wade (Ashtabula County). ^[64]
• Brand Whitlock (Toledo). ^[66]

Places

• Harriet Taylor Upton House (Warren). ^[67]

Publications

• The Alliance. ^[19]
• Everywoman. ^[68]
• The Ohio Woman. ^[68]

Suffragists who campaigned in Ohio

Rosalie G. Jones and Elizabeth Freeman take the Little Yellow Wagon out of Cleveland in July 1912

• Jane Addams. ^[8]
• Susan B. Anthony. ^[7]
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell. ^[69]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[13]
• Margaret Foley. ^[14]
• Elizabeth Freeman. ^[70]
• Laura A. Gregg. ^[36]
• Louise Hall. ^[71]
• Julia Ward Howe. ^[69]
• Laura M. Johns. ^[72]
• Rosalie G. Jones. ^[70]
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury. ^[73]
• Emmeline Pankhurst. ^[29]
• Sylvia Pankhurst. ^[1]
• Maud Wood Park. ^[74]
• Emily Pierson. ^[75]
• Jeannette Rankin. ^[8]
• Rose Schneiderman. ^[8]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[8]
• Florence Sherwood, president of the Wage Earners' Suffrage League of Chicago. ^[48]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ^[37]
• Lucy Stone. ^[3]
• Jane Thompson. ^[76]
• George Francis Train. ^[77]
• Sojourner Truth. ^[56]
• Camillo von Klenze. ^[17]
• Zerelda G. Wallace. ^[78]
• Bettina Borrmann Wells. ^[1]

Anti-suffrage

Groups

• Cincinnati and Hamilton County Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. ^[35]
• Ohio Women's Anti-Suffrage League. ^[13]

Anti-suffragists

• Mrs. Herman Hubbard (Columbus). ^[79]
• Ruby Osborne (Cincinnati). ^[35]
• Lucy Price. ^[13]
• Maria Longworth Storer (Cincinnati). ^[35]
• Katherine Talbott (Dayton). ^[5]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Ohio
• Women's suffrage in Ohio
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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