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

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

Groups

• Afro-American Protective Association.
• Boone Equality Club.
• Chariton Equal Suffrage Society.
• Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912.
• Iowa Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), formed as the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA) in 1870.
• Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
• Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (IFWC).
• Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society.
• Men's League for Women's Suffrage, organized in 1910.
• Men's League of Perry.
• Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.
• Political Equality Club of Sioux City, formed in 1889.
• Polk County Suffrage Association.
• Waterloo Suffragette Council.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Suffragists

• Mary Newbury Adams.
• Teresa Adams (Davenport).
• Adelaide Ballard.
• Mary A. Beavers (Mount Pleasant).
• Evelyn H. Belden.
• Narcissa T. Bemis.
• Amelia Bloomer (Council Bluffs).
• Sue M. Wilson Brown (Des Moines).
• Martha C. Callanan.
• Margaret W. Campbell.
• Carrie Chapman Catt (Charles City).
• Nettie Sanford Chapin (Marshalltown).
• Mary Jane Coggeshall.
• Fannie Wilson Cooper (Des Moines).
• Mary Darwin (Burlington).
• Keziah Anderson Dorrance (Taylor County).
• Helen Downey.
• Joseph Dugdale (Mount Pleasant).
• Marion Howard Dunham (Burlington).
• Flora Dunlap (Des Moines).
• Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919).
• Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) (Sioux City).
• Matilda Fletcher (Council Bluffs).
• Mariana Thompson Folsom.
• Alvah and Martha Frisbie
• Eleanor Gordon (Boone).
• Eliza H. Hunter.
• Caroline Ingham (Kossuth County).
• Harvey Ingham (Kossuth County).
• Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – Universalist minister and suffragist.
• Grace Morris Allen Jones (Burlington).
• Jennie A. Kilburne (Adair County).
• Anna B. Lawther (Dubuque).
• James Rush Lincoln.
• Mabel Lodge (Cedar Falls).
• Arabella Mansfield.
• Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist.
• Jane Amy McKinney.
• Carrie Dean Pruyn.
• Lizzie Bunnell Read (Algona).
• Gertrude Rush.
• Mary Safford.
• Anna H. Satterly.
• Annie Nowlin Savery (Des Moines).
• Vivian Smith
• Rowena Edson Stevenson (Boone).
• Adeline Morrison Swain.
• Mary Beaumont Welch (Ames).
• Henrietta Wilson (Dubuque).
• Mattie Woods.

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Cyrus C. Carpenter.
• William L. Harding.
• William Larrabee.
• Benjamin F. Murray (Winterset).
• Henry O'Connor.
• William G. Wilson (Davis County).

Publications

• Woman's Standard, created in 1886.

Suffragists campaigning in Iowa

• Jane Addams.
• Susan B. Anthony.
• Henry Browne Blackwell.
• Martha H. Brinkerhoff.
• Laura Clay.
• Phoebe Couzins.
• Hannah Tracy Cutler.
• Emma Smith DeVoe.
• Anna Dickinson.
• Frances Dana Gage.
• Helen M. Gougar.
• Laura A. Gregg.
• Ella Harrison.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Matilda Hindman.
• Laura M. Johns.
• Addie M. Johnson.
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch.
• Henrietta G. Moore.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Sarah Burger Stearns.
• Lucy Stone.
• Harriet Taylor Upton.
• Frances Woods.

See also

• Women's suffrage in Iowa
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Iowa
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. Boyd 2018, p. 29.
2. ^ "Women's Suffrage in Iowa". Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
3. Egge 2009, p. 31.
4. Hoskins, Danielle. "Biographical Sketch of Sue M. Wilson Brown, 1877-1941". Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
5. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 628.
6. Egge 2009, p. 33.
7. ^ "Toward A Universal Suffrage: Profiles of Courage". Central Iowa Community Museum. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
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9. ^ "Iowans in the Suffrage Movement". Greater Des Moines Partnership. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
10. Egge 2009, p. 43.
11. Noun 1969, p. 233.
12. Benkowich, Allyn; Corey, Kristen (22 March 2020). "Iowa women's history profile: Vivian B. Smith of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs". The Gazette. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
13. ^ Cloud, Sue; Corey, Kristen; Morse, Eric (1 March 2020). "The long road to women's suffrage in Iowa". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
14. Anthony 1902, p. 271.
15. ^ Noun 1969, p. 95.
16. Anthony 1902, p. 339.
17. Anthony 1902, p. 428.
18. Hoskins, Danielle. "Biographical Sketch of Fannie Wilson Cooper". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
19. Noun 1969, p. 96.
20. Noun 1969, p. 175.
21. ^ Egge 2009, p. 9.
22. Noun 1969, p. 134.
23. "Woman's Days at Iowa Fairs". The Woman's Column. V (30). American Woman Suffrage Association: 159. 1892. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
24. "Suffragist Flora Dunlap". Iowa PBS. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
25. Daughters of the American Revolution 1908, p. 23.
26. Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary H. (Mary Hannah); Elliott, Mary Elvira; Stimpson, Mary A.; Hoyt, Martha Seavey (1904). "Susan Breese Snowden Fessenden". Sketches of representative women of New England. Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co. pp. 391–93. Retrieved 6 August 2022 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
27. Noun 1969, p. 127.
28. ^ "Suffragists Gordon and Safford". Iowa PBS. 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
29. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 630.
30. ^ Noun 1969, p. 120.
31. Cristoforo, Genna. "Biographical Sketch of Effie McCollum Jones". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
32. Benkowich, Allyn; Corey, Kristen. "Grace Morris Allen Jones". Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
33. Noun 1969, p. 86.
34. Waterbury, Robert (23 March 2021). "Women's Suffrage Event Spotlights Dubuque Native Anna Lawther". Loras College Daily. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
35. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 629.
36. Hartman, Hayley. "Biographical Sketch of Mabel Lodge". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
37. Watson 1896, p. 729.
38. Schwarzkopf, Mikki (10 September 2020). "ALL VOTES MATTER". The Jefferson Herald. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
39. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 631.
40. Noun 1969, p. 91.
41. "Mary Beaumont Welch". Iowa 19th Amendment Commemoration. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
42. Noun 1969, p. 113.
43. Catt & Shuler 1923, p. 213.
44. Catt & Shuler 1923, p. 225.
45. Boyd 2018, p. 16.
46. Noun 1969, p. 85.
47. Noun 1969, p. 87.
48. ^ Harper 1922, p. 184.
49. Noun 1969, p. 97.
50. Noun 1969, p. 118-119.
51. Noun 1969, p. 138.
52. "The lecture at the Presbyterian". The Courier. 1894-09-06. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-09-25 – via Newspapers.com.
53. ^ Noun 1969, p. 89.
54. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 632.
55. Noun 1969, p. 121.

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Boyd, Katherine (Spring 2018). Partial Suffrage in Iowa: 1894 (Thesis). University of Iowa.
• Catt, Carrie Chapman; Shuler, Nettie Rogers (1923). Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Daughters of the American Revolution (1908). Directory of the Chapters, Officers and Members (Public domain ed.).
• Egge, Sara (2009). The Grassroots Diffusion of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa: The IESA, Rural Women, and the Right to Vote (Thesis). Iowa State University.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. ISBN 0813816025.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Watson, Irving Allison (1896). Physicians and Surgeons of America: (Illustrated). A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession (Public domain ed.). Republican Press Association.

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