List of Pennsylvania suffragists

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

Conventions

• Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester in 1852. ^[1]
• 5th National Women's Rights Convention, held in Philadelphia 1854. ^[2]

Groups

"Mr. Base Ball Fan Vote yes on Woman Suffrage" Pittsburgh Pirates flier

• Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA), formed in 1904. ^[3]
• Chester County Equal Suffrage Association. ^[4]
• Citizen's Suffrage Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1872. ^[5]
• Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, formed on February 21, 1910. ^{[3] [6]}
• Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia. ^[4]
• Equal Rights Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1866. ^[7]
• Equal Franchise Federation of Pittsburgh. ^[8]
• Lackawanna County Equal Franchise League. ^[9]
• Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League (Pittsburgh). ^[10]
• Northwestern Pennsylvania Equal Franchise Association. ^[11]
• Pennsylvania College Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1908. ^[5]
• Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage, formed in March 1912. ^{[11] [12]}
• Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, created in 1869. ^[7]
• Woman Suffrage Party of Chester County. ^[4]
• Woman Suffrage Society of Philadelphia, formed in 1892. ^[5]
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). ^[5]
• Women's Suffrage Society of Monroe County. ^[13]

Suffragists

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  Suffragists marching in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, c. 1917

  Lida Stokes Adams. ^[14]
• Wilmer Atkinson (Philadelphia). ^[15]
• Rachel Foster Avery (Philadelphia). ^[5]
• Mary E. Bakewell (Pittsburgh). ^[16]
• Flora Snyder Black (Meyersdale). ^[17]
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (Philadelphia). ^[5]
• Jennie Bronenberg (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Mary A. Burnham (Philadelphia, Powleton). ^{[5] [19]}
• Jane Campbell (Philadelphia). ^[5]
• Annie D. Chisholm (Huntington). ^[18]
• Lavinia Nelson Clarke (Erie). ^[11]
• Jennie Cleveland (Erie). ^[11]
• Isaac Clothier (Pittsburgh). ^[20]
• JoAnna Connell (Erie). ^[11]
• Cora Crawford (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Addie Whiteman Dickerson (Philadelphia). ^[21]
• Lavinia Dock (Fairfield). ^[18]
• Alice Dunbar Nelson (Philadelphia). ^[22]
• Rose Fishstein (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Augusta Fleming (Erie). ^[23]
• Margaretta Forten (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Gertrude Fuller (Pittsburgh). ^[24]
• Mary Grew. ^[7]
• Reba Gomborov (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Angelina Grimké (Philadelphia). ^[25]
• Sarah Moore Grimké (Philadelphia). ^[25]
• Louise Hall (Philadelphia). ^[26]
• Frances Harper (Philadelphia). ^[27]
• Charles T. Heaslip. ^[28]
• Kate C. Heffelfinger (Shamokin). ^[18]
• Elizabeth McShane Hilles. ^[29]
• Matilda Hindman. ^[30]
• Liliane Stevens Howard (Philadelphia). ^[31]
• Hannah Clothier Hull (Pittsburgh). ^[20]
• Jane Hunt (Philadelphia). ^[22]
• Mary Ingham (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Harriet C. Johnson (Philadelphia). ^[32]
• Caroline Katzenstein (Philadelphia). ^[5]
• Jennie E. Kennedy (Pittsburgh). ^[33]
• Julian Kennedy (Pittsburgh). ^[34]
• Alice Paisley Flack Kiernan (Somerset). ^[17]
• Caroline Burnham Kilgore (Philadelphia). ^[35]
• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (Pittsburgh). ^[23]
• Mary Flinn Lawrence (Pittsburgh). ^[36]
• Dora Kelly Lewis (Philadelphia). ^[5]
• Sarah Hunt Lockrey (1863–1929) – physician and suffragist. ^[37]
• Elizabeth McShane (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Lucy Kennedy Miller (Pittsburgh). ^[22]
• Winifred Barron Meek Morris (Pittsburgh). ^[38]
• Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia). ^[22]
• Lucretia Mott (Philadelphia). ^{[1] [39]}
• Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Mary H. Newbold. ^[30]
• Mary Irvin Thompson Orlady (Huntington). ^[40]
• Anna M. Orme. ^[41]
• Hannah J. Patterson (Pittsburgh). ^[42]
• Charlotte Woodward Pierce (Philadelphia). ^{[43] [44]}
• Odessa Hunter Plate (Erie County). ^[11]
• Jane Weir Pressly (Erie). ^[11]
• Ellen H. E. Price (Philadelphia). ^[12]
• Margaret Wilson Pryor (Philadelphia). ^{[22] [45]}

  

  "Suffragists of Eleven Counties to Celebrate Plank Victories and Dedicate New State Flag" June 1, 1916 (cropped)

• Sarah Pugh. ^[46]
• Harriet Forten Purvis (Philadelphia). ^[18]
• Robert Purvis (Philadelphia). ^[5]
• Katherine S. Reed. ^[47]
• Jennie Bradley Roessing (Pittsburgh). ^[48]
• Katharine Wentworth Ruschenberger (Chester County). ^[4]
• Helen Stone Schluraff (Erie County). ^[11]
• Edna Schoyer (Pittsburgh). ^[38]
• Marion Margery Scranton. ^{[49] [50]}
• Helen Semple (Titusville). ^[11]
• Eliza Kennedy Smith (Pittsburgh), also known as Eliza Jane Kennedy. ^{[51] [52] [38]}
• Mary Spencer (Erie). ^[11]
• Althea Staples (Monroe County). ^[13]
• Lily Helen Dupuy Steele (Pittsburgh). ^[18]
• Sara Yorke Stevenson (Philadelphia). ^[53]
• Jane Swisshelm (Pittsburgh). ^{[54] [54]}
• Martha Gibbons Thomas (Chester County). ^[55]
• Eliza Sproat Turner (Philadelphia). ^[22]
• Ellen Winsor (Haverford). ^[18]
• Mary Winsor (Haverford). ^[18]
• Mary M. Wolfe (Philadelphia). ^[26]
• Mabel Woodward Wright (Erie). ^[11]
• Emma Writt (Pittsburgh). ^[56]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Samuel Ashbridge. ^[57]
• Dimner Beeber (Philadelphia). ^[58]
• William Cameron Sproul. ^[59]

Places

• Justice Bell on display at Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge). ^[60]

Publications

• Woman's Progress , first published in 1893. ^[61]

Suffragists campaigning in Pennsylvania

• Susan B. Anthony. ^[23]
• Henry Browne Blackwell. ^[62]
• Mary C. C. Bradford. ^[62]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[62]
• Mary Dennett. ^[63]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ^[62]
• Laura Gregg. ^[62]
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale. ^[26]
• Laura M. Johns. ^[64]
• Clara Schlee Laddey. ^[47]
• Nellie McClung. ^[65]
• Inez Milholland. ^[63]
• Alice Paul. ^[63]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[62]
• Laura de Turczynowicz. ^[65]
• Ruza Wenclawska. ^[66]
• Elizabeth Upham Yates. ^[62]

Antisuffragists

Groups

• Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS), formed in 1911. ^[3]

See also

• List of historical Pennsylvania women
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
• Women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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External links

• Honoring Our Suffragists of Somerset County, PA