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.

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

Conventions

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

Groups

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]
Northwestern Pennsylvania Equal Franchise Association.^[10]
Pennsylvania College Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1908.^[5]
Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage, formed in March 1912.^[10]^[11]
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.^[12]

Suffragists

Suffragists marching in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, c. 1917
Lida Stokes Adams.^[13]
Wilmer Atkinson (Philadelphia).^[14]
Rachel Foster Avery (Philadelphia).^[5]
Mary E. Bakewell (Pittsburgh).^[15]
Flora Snyder Black (Meyersdale).^[16]
Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (Philadelphia).^[5]
Jennie Bronenberg (Philadelphia).^[17]
Mary A. Burnham (Philadelphia, Powleton).^[5]^[18]
Jane Campbell (Philadelphia).^[5]
Annie D. Chisholm (Huntington).^[17]
Lavinia Nelson Clarke (Erie).^[10]
Jennie Cleveland (Erie).^[10]
Isaac Clothier (Pittsburgh).^[19]
JoAnna Connell (Erie).^[10]
Cora Crawford (Philadelphia).^[17]
Lavinia Dock (Fairfield).^[17]
Alice Dunbar Nelson (Philadelphia).^[20]
Rose Fishstein (Philadelphia).^[17]
Augusta Fleming (Erie).^[21]
Margaretta Forten (Philadelphia).^[17]
Gertrude Fuller (Pittsburgh).^[22]
Mary Grew.^[7]
Reba Gomborov (Philadelphia).^[17]
Angelina Grimké (Philadelphia).^[23]
Sarah Moore Grimké (Philadelphia).^[23]
Louise Hall (Philadelphia).^[24]
Frances Harper (Philadelphia).^[25]
Charles T. Heaslip.^[26]
Kate C. Heffelfinger (Shamokin).^[17]
Elizabeth McShane Hilles.^[27]
Matilda Hindman.^[28]
Liliane Stevens Howard (Philadelphia).^[29]
Hannah Clothier Hull (Pittsburgh).^[19]
Jane Hunt (Philadelphia).^[20]
Mary Ingham (Philadelphia).^[17]
Caroline Katzenstein (Philadelphia).^[5]
Jennie E. Kennedy (Pittsburgh).^[30]
Julian Kennedy (Pittsburgh).^[31]
Alice Paisley Flack Kiernan (Somerset).^[16]
Caroline Burnham Kilgore (Philadelphia).^[32]
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (Pittsburgh).^[21]
Mary Flinn Lawrence (Pittsburgh).^[33]
Dora Kelly Lewis (Philadelphia).^[5]
Elizabeth McShane (Philadelphia).^[17]
Lucy Kennedy Miller (Pittsburgh).^[20]
Winifred Barron Meek Morris (Pittsburgh).^[34]
Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia).^[20]
Lucretia Mott (Philadelphia).^[1]^[35]
Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia).^[17]
Mary H. Newbold.^[28]
Mary Irvin Thompson Orlady (Huntington).^[36]
Anna M. Orme.^[37]
Hannah J. Patterson (Pittsburgh).^[38]
Charlotte Woodward Pierce (Philadelphia).^[39]^[40]
Odessa Hunter Plate (Erie County).^[10]
Jane Weir Pressly (Erie).^[10]
Ellen H. E. Price (Philadelphia).^[11]
Margaret Wilson Pryor (Philadelphia).^[20]^[41]
"Suffragists of Eleven Counties to Celebrate Plank Victories and Dedicate New State Flag" June 1, 1916 (cropped)
Sarah Pugh.^[42]
Harriet Forten Purvis (Philadelphia).^[17]
Robert Purvis (Philadelphia).^[5]
Katherine S. Reed.^[43]
Jennie Bradley Roessing (Pittsburgh).^[44]
Katharine Wentworth Ruschenberger (Chester County).^[4]
Helen Stone Schluraff (Erie County).^[10]
Edna Schoyer (Pittsburgh).^[34]
Marion Margery Scranton.^[45]^[46]
Helen Semple (Titusville).^[10]
Eliza Kennedy Smith (Pittsburgh), also known as Eliza Jane Kennedy.^[47]^[48]^[34]
Mary Spencer (Erie).^[10]
Althea Staples (Monroe County).^[12]
Lily Helen Dupuy Steele (Pittsburgh).^[17]
Jane Swisshelm (Pittsburgh).^[49]^[49]
Martha Gibbons Thomas (Chester County).^[50]
Eliza Sproat Turner (Philadelphia).^[20]
Ellen Winsor (Haverford).^[17]
Mary Winsor (Haverford).^[17]
Mary M. Wolfe (Philadelphia).^[24]
Mabel Woodward Wright (Erie).^[10]
Emma Writt (Pittsburgh).^[51]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

Samuel Ashbridge.^[52]
Dimner Beeber (Philadelphia).^[53]
William Cameron Sproul.^[54]

Places

Justice Bell on display at Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge).^[55]

Publications

Woman's Progress, first published in 1893.^[56]

Suffragists campaigning in Pennsylvania

Antisuffragists

Groups

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

References

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