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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2024)

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

Group of Butte Suffragists in 1914. Left to right: Alice Schwegel, Mary Murphy and Katherine Sullivan
  • 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]
  • Wellington D. Rankin.[18]
  • Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.[19]
  • Harriet P. Sanders.[6]
  • Sarepta Sanders (Helena).[6]
  • Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).[20]
  • Gertrude Sylvester.[8]
  • Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).[13]
  • Clara B. Tower.[21]
  • Josephine Trigg (Great Falls).[8]
  • Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls).[8]
  • Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).[10]
  • Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).[22]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

Publications

  • The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.[5]
  • Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.[24]

Suffragists campaigning in Montana

Anti-suffragists

Groups

  • Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.[32]
  • Travel Club of Great Falls.[33]

Politicians opposing women's suffrage

See also

References

  1. ^ Ward 1974, p. 68.
  2. ^ Ward 1974, p. 72.
  3. ^ Ward 1974, p. 76.
  4. ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
  5. ^ a b c d "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914-191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  6. ^ a b c Larson 1973, p. 31.
  7. ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 798.
  10. ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 362.
  11. ^ Ward 1974, p. 144.
  12. ^ Ward 1974, p. 28.
  13. ^ a b c "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g Anthony 1902, p. 797.
  15. ^ Larson 1973, p. 33.
  16. ^ a b c d Kohl, Martha (2019-08-02). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  17. ^ a b c Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
  18. ^ Harper 1922, p. 363.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. 1914-08-13. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-10-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ Harper 1922, p. 360.
  22. ^ Winestine 1974, p. 71.
  23. ^ Winestine 1974, p. 72.
  24. ^ Ward 1974, p. 126.
  25. ^ a b c Ward 1974, p. 122.
  26. ^ a b Ward 1974, p. 75.
  27. ^ Larson 1973, p. 30.
  28. ^ a b Larson 1973, p. 34.
  29. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 364.
  30. ^ Winestine 1974, p. 73.
  31. ^ Larson 1973, p. 26.
  32. ^ Ward 1974, p. 142.
  33. ^ "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. 1907-05-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ^ Ward 1974, p. 56.
  35. ^ 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.