List of Missouri suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2020)

Groups

Carthage Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1897.^[1]
Columbia Equal Suffrage Association.^[2]
Equal Suffrage Association of Kansas City, led by Kersey Coates and formed in 1892.^[3]^[4]
Federated Colored Women's Clubs.^[5]
Jackson County Suffrage Association, formed in 1918.^[6]
Kansas City Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1911.^[7]
Kansas City Woman's League, formed in 1914.^[8]
Marysville Ladies Marching Band.^[9]
Missouri Equal Suffrage Association (MESA) formed in 1895.^[10]
Political Equality Club of Warrensburg, formed in 1911.^[11]
St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League, formed in 1912.^[12]
St. Louis County Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1870.^[13]
St. Louis Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1910.^[14]
Wednesday Club, formed in 1890 by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Eliot.^[15]
Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri, formed in St. Louis in May 1867.^[16]

Suffragists

Penelope Allen (St. Louis).^[16]
Libbie C. Anthony (Jefferson City).^[17]
Annie White Baxter (Jasper County).^[18]
Emily Newell Blair (Jasper County).^[19]
Martha H. Brinkerhoff.^[20]
Margaret Burke (St. Louis).^[12]
Marie Ruoff Byrum (Hannibal).^[21]
Julia Shipley Carroll (St. Louis)
Anna Clapp (St. Louis).^[2]
Sarah Chandler Coates (Kansas City).^[22]
Myrtle Foster Cook (Kansas City).^[23]
Adaline Couzins (St. Louis).^[24]
Phoebe Couzins (St. Louis).^[2]
Phoebe Jane Ess (Kansas City).^[2]
Edna Gellhorn (St. Louis).^[25]
Lucretia Hall (St. Louis).^[16]
Ella Harrison (Carthage).^[26]^[27]
Rosa Russell Ingels (Columbia).^[28]
Victoria Clay Haley (St. Louis).^[5]
Rebecca Hazard (St. Louis).^[16]
Virginia Hedges (Warrensburg).^[29]
Ida Joyce Jackson (Jefferson City).^[30]
Frances C. Jenkins (Kansas City)^[31]
Addie M. Johnson.^[32]
Marguerite Martyn (St. Louis).^[14]
Helen Guthrie Miller (Columbia).^[2]
Francis Minor (St. Louis).^[33]
Virginia Minor (St. Louis).^[16]
Jessie Moller (St. Louis).^[12]
Ella Moffatt.^[34]
Luella Wilcox St. Clair Moss (Columbia).^[2]
Alma Nash (Marysville).^[9]
Kate Richards O'Hare (St. Louis).^[35]
Barbara Blackman O'Neil (St. Louis).^[2]
Mary Whitney Phelps.^[36]
Florence Wyman Richardson (St. Louis).^[2]
Cecilia Razovsky (St. Louis).^[12]
Alma Gibson Robb (St. Louis).^[12]
Charlotte Rumbold (St. Louis).^[12]
Laura Runyon (Warrensburg).^[37]
Mary Semple Scott (St. Louis).^[38]
Martha Taaffe (Jasper County).^[26]
Genevieve Tierney (St. Louis).^[12]
Alice Curtice Moyer Wing (St. Louis).^[39]
Victoria Conkling Whitney (St. Louis).^[1]
Fannie C. Williams (St. Louis).^[40]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

B. Gratz Brown.^[41]
Perl Decker (Joplin).^[42]

Publications

The Missouri Woman.^[43]

Places

St. Louis Mercantile Library.^[44]^[45]

Suffragists who campaigned in Missouri

References

^ ^a ^b Morris 1930, p. 79.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "Missouri Women: Suffrage to Statecraft". University of Missouri. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 26-27.
^ McBride 1920, p. 320.
^ ^a ^b Shea, Neil (2017). "Biographical Sketch of Victoria Clay Haley". Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
^ McBride 1920, p. 324.
^ McBride 1920, p. 321.
^ McBride 1920, p. 322.
^ ^a ^b "Alma Nash & Her Band". Missouri Women. 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ Morris 1930, p. 77.
^ Runyon 1920, p. 380.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Weigle, Florence E. (1920). "St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League". The Missouri Historical Review. 14 (3–4): 384.
^ "Woman Suffrage Call". The Missouri Republican. 1870-05-27. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-09-24 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b O'Neil, Tim (7 June 2016). "Events will remember suffragists who lined Locust Street in demonstration 100 years ago". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 26.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri Formed". St. Louis Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ "Biographical Sketch of Libbie (Libby) C. Anthony". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 28.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 21.
^ Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. p. 97. ISBN 0813816025.
^ O'Connor, Candace (1994). "Women Who Led the Way". Missouri Almanac, 1993-94. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Anthony 1902, p. 790.
^ Yunker, Jordan; Fabbri, Lia (2017). "Biographical Sketch of Myrtle Foster Cook, 1870-1951". Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 24.
^ "Missouri and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ ^a ^b Van Es 2014, p. 2.
^ Morris 1930, p. 78.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ingels 1920, p. 382.
^ Morris 1930, p. 76.
^ Lopez, Noah (2020). "Biographical Sketch of Ida Joyce Jackson". Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
^ "END TO MRS. FRANCES JENKINS". The Kansas City Star. 14 December 1915. p. 9. Retrieved 15 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Anthony 1902, p. 791.
^ Anderson, Caiti (2016-04-22). "Minor v. Happersett: The Supreme Court and Women's Suffrage". State of Elections. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c Anthony 1902, p. 792.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 29.
^ "Two Opposing Conventions in Conclave this Morning". Chicago Evening Post. 1869-02-11. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-26 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Atkinson 1920, p. 302.
^ Scott 1920, p. 374.
^ "Alice Curtice Moyer Wing and Woman Suffrage in the Ozarks, 1916-1919". Missouri Women. 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
^ Jones, Martha S. (2020-08-07). "For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn't end their fight to vote". National Geographic. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
^ Morris 1930, p. 68.
^ Van Es 2014, p. 58.
^ Driscoll, Carol (July 2020). "Emily Newell Blair: Missouri's Suffragette". Missouri Life. 47 (5): 40–43 – via EBSCOhost.
^ "Woman Suffrage". The Missouri Republican. 1869-10-08. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-09-24 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Female Suffrage Movement Organized for Missouri". Lancaster Excelsior. 1867-06-15. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-09-24 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Virginia Minor". Historic Missourians - The State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ ^a ^b Fordyce 1920, p. 290.
^ O'Neil, Tim (19 November 2011). "A Look Back • Suffragists meet in St. Louis in 1872". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
^ "Lecture by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore". The Missouri Republican. 1871-02-04. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-09-24 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c Atkinson 1920, p. 301.
^ Cooperman, Jeannette (2020-04-28). "St. Louis suffragists played a key role in advocating for the 19th Amendment 100 years ago". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-21.

Sources

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