List of Montana suffragists
This is a list of Montana suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Montana.
Groups
- Equal Suffrage Party, formed in 1897.[1]
- Helena Business Women's Suffrage Club.[2]
- Helena Equal Suffrage Club.[3]
- Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.[4]
- Montana Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), created in 1912.[5]
- Montana Men's Equal Suffrage League.[5]
- Montana Woman's Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1895.[6]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[7]
Suffragists
- Lillian Agnew (Great Falls).[8]
- Mary Long Alderson.[8]
- Mary B. Atwater.[9]
- Ida Auerbach.[10]
- Edith Clinch.[11]
- Helen P. Clarke.[8]
- Eva Warren Collier (Bedford).[12]
- Ota E. Cummings (Billings).[13]
- Maria M. Dean (Helena).[14]
- Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena).[15]
- Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County).[16]
- Hazel Hunkins (Billings).[16]
- Emma Ingalls (Flathead County).[16]
- Grace Rankin Kinney.[10]
- Mary Alderson Long.[7]
- Clara McAdow (Fergus County).[17]
- Mary E. O'Neill (Butte).[13]
- Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann (Great Falls).[8]
- Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County).[16]
- Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.[18]
- Harriet P. Sanders.[6]
- Sarepta Sanders (Helena).[6]
- Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).[19]
- Gertrude Sylvester.[8]
- Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).[13]
- Clara B. Tower.[20]
- Josephine Trigg (Great Falls).[8]
- Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls).[8]
- Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).[10]
- Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).[21]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Joseph Burt Annin.[22]
- Peter Breen.[14]
- William A. Clark.[14]
- John S. Huseby.[9]
- Hiram Knowles.[14]
- Perry McAdow (Fergus County).[17]
- Wellington Rankin.[5]
- Francis E. Sargeant.[14]
Publications
- The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.[5]
- Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.[23]
Suffragists campaigning in Montana
- Henry Blackwell.[17]
- Kathryn Blake.[24]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[25]
- Ida Craft.[24]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[26]
- Laura A. Gregg.[27]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[25]
- Margaret Hinchey.[4]
- Rosalie Jones.[24]
- Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[28]
- James Lees Laidlaw.[28]
- Gail Laughlin.[27]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[29]
- Frances Willard.[30]
Anti-suffragists
Groups
- Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.[31]
- Travel Club of Great Falls.[32]
Politicians opposing women's suffrage
- Allen Joy.[14]
- Martin Maginnis.[14]
- George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County).[33]
- Joseph K. Toole.[34]
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Montana
- Women's suffrage in Montana
- Women's suffrage in the United States
References
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 68.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 72.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 76.
- ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
- ^ a b c d "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914-191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ a b c Larson 1973, p. 31.
- ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
- ^ a b c d e f g Inbody, Kristen (6 November 2018). "Voted? Thank a Montana Suffragist". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com."Suffragists". Great Falls Tribune. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 798.
- ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 362.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 144.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 28.
- ^ a b c "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g Anthony 1902, p. 797.
- ^ Larson 1973, p. 33.
- ^ a b c d Kohl, Martha (2019-08-02). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ a b c Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
- ^ Hitchcock, Calyn. "Biographical Sketch of Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa," in Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States: "Part III: Mainstream Suffragists—National American Woman Suffrage Association." Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, retrieved online May 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. 1914-08-13. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-10-05 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 360.
- ^ Winestine 1974, p. 71.
- ^ Winestine 1974, p. 72.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 126.
- ^ a b c Ward 1974, p. 122.
- ^ a b Ward 1974, p. 75.
- ^ Larson 1973, p. 30.
- ^ a b Larson 1973, p. 34.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 364.
- ^ Winestine 1974, p. 73.
- ^ Larson 1973, p. 26.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 142.
- ^ "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. 1907-05-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 56.
- ^ Inbody, Kristen (8 November 2014). "Women's suffrage: Montana backers targeted their message to each group they spoke with". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
Sources
- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Baumler, Ellen; Ferguson, Laura K.; Foley, Jodie; Hanshew, Annie; Jabour, Anya; Kohl, Martha; Walter, Marcella Sherfy (Summer 2014). "Women's History Matters: The Montana Historical Society's Suffrage Centennial Project". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 64 (2): 3–20, 91–92. JSTOR 24419894 – via JSTOR.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Larson, T. A. (Winter 1973). "Montana Women and the Battle for the Ballot". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 23 (1): 24–41. JSTOR 4517748 – via JSTOR.
- Ward, Doris Buck (1974). The Winning of Woman Suffrage in Montana (PDF) (Master of Arts in History thesis). Montana State University.
- Winestine, Belle Fligelman (Summer 1974). "Mother Was Shocked". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 24 (3): 70–79. JSTOR 4517906 – via JSTOR.
