List of Maine suffragists

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

Groups

25th Annual Convention for the Maine Woman Suffrage Association, October 1905

• Bangor Suffrage Center.[1]
• Belfast Suffrage League, formed in 1916.[2]
• College Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1913.[3]
• Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and later, National Woman's Party.[4]
• Cumberland County Convention of Reformed Men.[5]
• Equal Rights Association of Rockland, formed in 1868.[6]
• Farmington Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1906.[7]
• Maine Federation of Women's Clubs (MFWC).[8]
• Maine Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1873.[9]
• The Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1914.[10]
• Portland Equal Franchise League.[11]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), first Maine chapter formed in 1874.[12]
• Woman Suffrage Association of Portland.[13]

Suffragists

Essie Carle, c 1920

• Sophia P. Anthoine (Portland).[14][15]
• Jane Sophia Appleton (Bangor).[16][17]
• Hannah Johnston Bailey (Winthrop).[18]
• Katherine Reed Balentine (Portland).[19]
• Camille Lessared Bissonnette (Lewiston).[20]
• Henry Blanchard (Portland).[9]
• Ralph O. Brewster.[3]
• Margaret W. Campbell (Hancock County).[21]
• Essie P. Carle (Belfast).[22]
• Sarah G. Crosby (Albion).[23]
• Lucy Hobart Day.[24]
• Lydia Neal Dennett (Portland).[25]
• Adelaide Emerson (Ellsworth).[23]
  

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• Fannie J. Fernald (Old Orchard).[26][7]
• Jennie Fuller (Hartland).[11]
• Abby F. Fulton.[7]
• Obadiah Gardner (Augusta).[11]
• Ann F. Jarvis Greely (Ellsworth).[27]
• Isabel Greenwood (Farmington).[28]
• Ira G. Hersey (Houlton).[28]
• Charlotte Hill (Ellsworth).[27]
• Augusta M. Hunt (Portland).[14]
• Benjamin Kingsbury (Portland).[29]
• Deborah Knox Livingston (Bangor).[30]
• Clara Hapgood Nash.[31]
• John Neal (Portland).[32]
• Joshua Nye (Augusta).[29]
• Sarah Jane Lincoln O'Brion (Cornish).[33]
• Cordelia A. Quinby (Augusta).[7]
• Maud Wood Park (Cape Elizabeth).[30]
• Leonard A. Pierce (Portland).[11]
• Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (Penobscot) - (Indian Island).[20]
• Louise Johnson Pratt (Belfast).[2]
• Olive Rose (Warren).[34]
• Leslie R. Rounds.[3]
• Lavinia Snow (Rockland).[27]
• Lucy Snow (Rockland).[27]
• Sophronia Snow (Hampden).[33]
• Jane H. Spofford (Hampden).[33]
• Lillian M. N. Stevens (Portland).[18]
• Zenas Thompson (Portland).[11]
• Rebecca Usher (Hollis).[33]
• L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace.[3][35]
• Florence Brooks Whitehouse (Augusta).[36]
• Robert Treat Whitehouse.[3]
• William Penn Whitehouse (Augusta).[11]
• Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten.[37]
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.[7]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage in Maine

• Carl E. Milliken.[38]

Suffragists who campaigned in Maine

• Susan B. Anthony.[39]
• Abby Scott Baker.[40]
• Henry B. Blackwell.[9]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.[26]
• Elizabeth Glendower Evans.[14]
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale.[41]
• Diana Hirschler.[24]
• Augusta Hughston.[3]
• Julia Ward Howe.[34]
• Florence Kelley.[42]
• Gail Laughlin.[36]
• Dora Lewis.[38]
• Mary Livermore.[9]
• Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell.[43][2]
• Nancy M. Schoonmaker.[44]
• Anna Howard Shaw.[9]
• Lucy Stone.[9]
• Maud Wood Park.[14]
• Mary Winsor.[40]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, formed in 1913.[28][10]

People

• Harriet Bird (Yarmouth).[28]
• Sophia C. Brackett (Portland).[45]
• Susannah Bundy Brown (Portland).[46]
• Lucy Cobb (Rockland).[2]
• Margaret L. Dalton (Portland).[46]
• C. T. Ogden (Deering).[47]
• Sewall C. Strout (Portland).[47]

References

1. Toothman, Delania. "Biographical Sketch of Deborah Knox Livingston". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
2. O'Brien, Andy (17 January 2019). "They Petitioned, They Protested, They Went to Jail & They Won". The Free Press. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
3. Harper 1922, p. 237.
4. "Florence Brooks Whitehouse". ACLU of Maine. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
5. Risk 2009, p. 101.
6. O'Brien, Andy (3 January 2019). "When Maine Suffragists Fought for Their Right to Vote". The Free Press. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
7. "The Maine Woman Suffrage Association". Maine State Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
8. Harper 1922, p. 240.
9. Anthony 1902, p. 689.
10. "Maine and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
11. Harper 1922, p. 247.
12. Risk 2009, p. 65.
13. Risk 2009, p. 162.
14. Harper 1922, p. 238.
15. Neises, Amy. "Biographical Sketch of Sara P. Anthoine". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 – via Alexander Street.
16. Risk 2009, p. 87.
17. Neises, Amy R. "Biographical Sketch of Jane Sophia Appleton". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Alexander Street. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
18. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 4.
19. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 9.
20. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 10.
21. O'Brien, Andy (10 January 2019). "Maine Women Continue the Fight for Voting Rights & Fair Treatment". The Free Press. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
22. "Rush to Register". Maine State Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
23. Risk 2009, p. 92.
24. Anthony 1902, p. 690.
25. Risk 2009, p. 88.
26. Harper 1922, p. 236.
27. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 3.
28. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 6.
29. Day, Lucy H.; Bates, Helen N.; Anthoine, Sara P. (2018). "Historical Sketch of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association". League of Women Voters Mrs Wing's Scrapbook. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
30. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 8.
31. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 5.
32. Risk 2009, p. 70.
33. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 2.
34. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 1.
35. Assogba, Anna. "Biographical Sketch of L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
36. Maine State Museum 2019, p. 7.
37. Hough, Mazie. "Biographical Sketch of Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
38. Gass 2011, p. 55.
39. "Connecting Ellsworth and the Nation". Maine State Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
40. Gass 2011, p. 49.
41. Spiker 2012, p. 22.
42. Gass 2011, p. 42.
43. De Sa e Silva, Pascale; O'Neill, Nora. "Biographical Sketch of Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
44. Harper 1922, p. 245.
45. Risk 2009, p. 131.
46. Risk 2009, p. 130.
47. Risk 2009, p. 129.

See also

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

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Gass, Anne (October 2011). "Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Vote to Ratify Women's Suffrage in 1919". Maine History. 46 (1): 38–66.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Maine State Museum (2019). "Maine Suffrage Who's Who" (PDF). Women's Long Road.
• Risk, Shannon M. (2009). 'In Order to Establish Justice': The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movements of Maine and New Brunswick (Thesis). University of Maine.
• Spiker, LaRue (2012). "Women Got the Vote Fifty Years Ago" (PDF). Chebacco. 13: 21–27.