List of Nevada suffragists

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

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

Groups

  • Churchill County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • Douglas County Equal Suffrage League.[2]
  • Esmerelda County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • Eureka County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • Humboldt County Equal Suffrage League.[3]
  • Lucy Stone Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League, formed in Austin, Nevada in 1894.[4]
  • The Men's League of Nevada, created in 1914.[5]
  • Nevada Equal Franchise Society (NEFS).[6]
  • Nevada Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1895.[7]
  • Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs.[8]
  • Non-Militant Suffrage Association, formed in 1911.[9]
  • Ormsby County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • Sparks Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • State Equal Suffrage Association.[10]
  • Storey County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • Washoe County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[4]

Suffragists

Sadie D. Hurst for Nevada Assembly ad, November 4, 1918
  • Mary Babcock.[4]
  • Hellen Ann Lovelock Bonnifield (Winnemucca).[3]
  • Mae Caine[11]
  • Hanna K. Clapp.[4]
  • Felice Cohn (Carson City).[7]
  • Eliza Cook (Douglas County).[2]
  • Mary Stoddard Doten.[2]
  • Bessie R. Lucas Eichelberger (Reno and Washoe County).[12]
  • Minnie Flannigan.[8]
  • Maud Gassoway.[8]
  • John I. Ginn (Elko).[13]
  • Laura DeForce Gordon (Virginia City).[14]
  • Florence Humphrey (Washoe).[1]
  • Sadie D. Hurst (Washoe).[1]
  • Alexandrine La Tourette.[8]
  • Sarah Emeline Mack (Reno).[15]
  • Anne Henrietta Martin (Reno).[6]
  • Mila Tupper Maynard (Reno).[7]
  • Helena Suzanne Bidwell Norton (Reno).[16]
  • Elda Ann Williams Simpson Orr (Reno).[17]
  • Delphine Anderson Squires (Las Vegas).[6]
  • Fannie Weller (Austin).[7]
  • Frances Slaven Williamson (Austin and Reno).[10]
  • Bird Wilson (Goldfield).[6]
  • Jeanne Wier.[18]

Politicians who supported women's suffrage

Publications

  • The Nevada Citizen, published by Frances Slaven Williamson and Mary Laura Williamson.[10]

Suffragists who campaigned in Nevada

Suffrage Special women in Carson City meeting with the governor, April 27, 1916

Anti-suffragists

People

Groups

  • Nevada Association of Women Opposed to Equal Suffrage (NAWOWS).[7]

Anti-suffragists who campaigned in Nevada

See also

  • flagNevada portal

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Mueller, Megg (January 2020). "A Century of Suffrage". Nevada Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  2. ^ a b c Skorupa, Susan (21 July 2014). "Nevada Women's History Project celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage". Reno Gazette Journal. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  3. ^ a b "Suffragists in Nevada". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Anthony 1902, p. 810.
  5. ^ "Nevada Suffrage Leaders Meet". The Sacramento Union. 24 February 1914. Retrieved 28 November 2020 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Women in Nevada History". Nevada Suffrage. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Bennett, Dana R.; Reno, Mona. "Nevada Suffrage Timeline". Nevada Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  8. ^ a b c d Harper 1922, p. 388.
  9. ^ "Felice Cohn". ONE. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  10. ^ a b c Wilkins, Sally. "FRANCES SLAVEN WILLIAMSON". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  11. ^ Reno, Mona. “Mae Caine,” in “Nevada Women’s History Project.” Reno, Nevada: Nevada Suffrage Centennial, retrieved online June 18, 2021.
  12. ^ Bernard, Patti; Falcone, Kitty. "BESSIE R. LUCAS EICHELBERGER". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  13. ^ a b c Ford & Hulse 1995, p. 181.
  14. ^ a b Ford & Hulse 1995, p. 177.
  15. ^ Falcone, Kitty. "Sarah Emeline (Emma) Mack". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  16. ^ Bennett, Dana R. "Helena Suzanne (Lena) Bidwell Norton". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  17. ^ Malek, Sue. "Genealogy and Family History: Suffragist". TMCC. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  18. ^ McGinness, Brett (26 August 2020). "Famed Washoe basket weaver among Nevada's influential Women of the Century". USA Today. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  19. ^ a b c d Harper 1922, p. 387.
  20. ^ a b Mead 2004, p. 164.
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h "Suffrage Special' Arrives and Members Put in a Busy Day". The Daily Appeal. 1916-04-27. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 397.
  23. ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 391.
  24. ^ Harper 1922, p. 390.
  25. ^ a b c d e f g h i Harper 1922, p. 398.
  26. ^ Lumsden, Linda J. (1997). Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-57233-163-1.
  27. ^ "Woman Suffrage: Tactics". Nevada Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  28. ^ Mead 2004, p. 168.
  29. ^ Mead 2004, p. 169.
  30. ^ Ford & Hulse 1995, p. 186.
  31. ^ a b Marcus, Emerson (28 October 2014). "'Epic in politics': Nevada women got vote a century ago". Reno Gazette Journal. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

Sources

  • Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
  • Ford, Jean; Hulse, James W. (Fall 1995). "The First Battle for Woman Suffrage in Nevada: 1869-1871 – Correcting and Expanding the Record" (PDF). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 38 (3): 174–188.
  • Mead, Rebecca J. (2004). How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814756768 – via Internet Archive.
  • Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.