List of Iowa suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2021)

Groups

Afro-American Protective Association.^[1]
Boone Equality Club.^[2]
Chariton Equal Suffrage Society.^[3]
Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912.^[4]
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), formed as the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA) in 1870.^[5]^[6]
Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.^[7]
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (IFWC).^[2]
Men's League for Women's Suffrage, organized in 1910.^[8]
Men's League of Perry.^[9]
Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.^[2]
Political Equality Club of Sioux City, formed in 1889.^[10]
Polk County Suffrage Association.^[7]
Waterloo Suffragette Council.^[11]
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).^[2]

Suffragists

Mary Newbury Adams.^[12]
Teresa Adams (Davenport).^[2]
Adelaide Ballard.^[13]
Mary A. Beavers (Mount Pleasant).^[14]
Evelyn H. Belden.^[15]
Narcissa T. Bemis.^[5]
Amelia Bloomer (Council Bluffs).^[8]
Sue M. Wilson Brown (Des Moines).^[7]^[2]
Martha C. Callanan.^[16]
Margaret W. Campbell.^[5]
Carrie Chapman Catt (Charles City).^[8]
Nettie Sanford Chapin (Marshalltown).^[14]
Mary Jane Coggeshall.^[12]
Fannie Wilson Cooper (Des Moines).^[17]
Mary Darwin (Burlington).^[18]
Keziah Anderson Dorrance (Taylor County).^[19]
Helen Downey.^[7]
Joseph Dugdale (Mount Pleasant).^[20]^[21]
Marion Howard Dunham (Burlington)^[22]
Flora Dunlap (Des Moines).^[23]
Matilda Fletcher (Council Bluffs).^[24]
Mariana Thompson Folsom.^[5]
Alvah and Martha Frisbie
Eleanor Gordon (Boone).^[25]^[2]
Eliza H. Hunter.^[26]
Caroline Ingham (Kossuth County).^[27]
Harvey Ingham (Kossuth County).^[27]
Grace Morris Allen Jones (Burlington).^[28]
Jennie A. Kilburne (Adair County).^[29]
Anna B. Lawther (Dubuque).^[30]
James Rush Lincoln.^[31]
Mabel Lodge (Cedar Falls).^[32]
Arabella Mansfield.^[12]
Jane Amy McKinney.^[5]
Carrie Dean Pruyn.^[33]
Lizzie Bunnell Read (Algona).^[27]
Gertrude Rush.^[7]
Mary Safford.^[25]
Anna H. Satterly.^[34]
Annie Nowlin Savery (Des Moines).^[35]
Vivian Smith^[7]
Rowena Edson Stevenson (Boone).^[2]
Adeline Morrison Swain.^[12]
Mary Beaumont Welch (Ames).^[36]
Henrietta Wilson (Dubuque).^[37]
Mattie Woods.^[7]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

Cyrus C. Carpenter.^[38]
William L. Harding.^[39]
William Larrabee.^[40]
Benjamin F. Murray (Winterset).^[41]
Henry O'Connor.^[20]
William G. Wilson (Davis County).^[42]

Publications

Woman's Standard, created in 1886.^[31]

Suffragists campaigning in Iowa

References

^ Boyd 2018, p. 29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Women's Suffrage in Iowa". Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
^ Egge 2009, p. 31.
^ Hoskins, Danielle. "Biographical Sketch of Sue M. Wilson Brown, 1877-1941". Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Anthony 1902, p. 628.
^ Egge 2009, p. 33.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Toward A Universal Suffrage: Profiles of Courage". Central Iowa Community Museum. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Iowans in the Suffrage Movement". Greater Des Moines Partnership. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
^ Egge 2009, p. 43.
^ Noun 1969, p. 233.
^ Benkowich, Allyn; Corey, Kristen (22 March 2020). "Iowa women's history profile: Vivian B. Smith of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs". The Gazette. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cloud, Sue; Corey, Kristen; Morse, Eric (1 March 2020). "The long road to women's suffrage in Iowa". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
^ Anthony 1902, p. 271.
^ ^a ^b Noun 1969, p. 95.
^ Anthony 1902, p. 339.
^ Anthony 1902, p. 428.
^ Hoskins, Danielle. "Biographical Sketch of Fannie Wilson Cooper". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
^ Noun 1969, p. 96.
^ Noun 1969, p. 175.
^ ^a ^b Egge 2009, p. 9.
^ Noun 1969, p. 134.
^ "Woman's Days at Iowa Fairs". The Woman's Column. V (30). American Woman Suffrage Association: 159. 1892. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
^ "Suffragist Flora Dunlap". Iowa PBS. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
^ Noun 1969, p. 127.
^ ^a ^b "Suffragists Gordon and Safford". Iowa PBS. 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Anthony 1902, p. 630.
^ ^a ^b ^c Noun 1969, p. 120.
^ Benkowich, Allyn; Corey, Kristen. "Grace Morris Allen Jones". Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
^ Noun 1969, p. 86.
^ Waterbury, Robert (23 March 2021). "Women's Suffrage Event Spotlights Dubuque Native Anna Lawther". Loras College Daily. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
^ ^a ^b Anthony 1902, p. 629.
^ Hartman, Hayley. "Biographical Sketch of Mabel Lodge". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
^ Schwarzkopf, Mikki (10 September 2020). "ALL VOTES MATTER". The Jefferson Herald. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
^ ^a ^b Anthony 1902, p. 631.
^ Noun 1969, p. 91.
^ "Mary Beaumont Welch". Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
^ Noun 1969, p. 113.
^ Catt & Shuler 1923, p. 213.
^ Catt & Shuler 1923, p. 225.
^ Boyd 2018, p. 16.
^ Noun 1969, p. 85.
^ Noun 1969, p. 87.
^ ^a ^b Harper 1922, p. 184.
^ Noun 1969, p. 97.
^ Noun 1969, p. 118-119.
^ Noun 1969, p. 138.
^ "The lecture at the Presbyterian". The Courier. 1894-09-06. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Noun 1969, p. 89.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Anthony 1902, p. 632.
^ Noun 1969, p. 121.

Sources

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Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. ISBN 0813816025.