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.

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

• Mary B. Atwater.[8]
• Ida Auerbach.[9]
• Edith Clinch.[10]
• Eva Warren Collier (Bedford).[11]
• Ota E. Cummings (Billings).[12]
• Maria M. Dean (Helena).[13]
• Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena).[14]
• Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County).[15]
• Hazel Hunkins (Billings).[15]
• Emma Ingalls (Flathead County).[15]
• Grace Rankin Kinney.[9]
• Mary Alderson Long.[7]
• Clara McAdow (Fergus County).[16]
• Mary E. O'Neill (Butte).[12]
• Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County).[15]
• Harriet P. Sanders.[6]
• Sarepta Sanders (Helena).[6]
• Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).[17]
• Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).[12]
• Clara B. Tower.[18]
• Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).[9]
• Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).[19]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Joseph Burt Annin.[20]
• Peter Breen.[13]
• William A. Clark.[13]
• John S. Huseby.[8]
• Hiram Knowles.[13]
• Perry McAdow (Fergus County).[16]
• Wellington Rankin.[5]
• Francis E. Sargeant.[13]

Publications

• The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.[5]
• Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.[21]

Suffragists campaigning in Montana

• Henry Blackwell.[16]
• Kathryn Blake.[22]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.[23]
• Ida Craft.[22]
• Emma Smith DeVoe.[24]
• Laura A. Gregg.[25]
• Mary Garrett Hay.[23]
• Margaret Hinchey.[4]
• Rosalie Jones.[22]
• Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[26]
• James Lees Laidlaw.[26]
• Gail Laughlin.[25]
• Anna Howard Shaw.[27]
• Frances Willard.[28]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.[29]
• Travel Club of Great Falls.[30]

Politicians opposing women's suffrage

• Allen Joy.[13]
• Martin Maginnis.[13]
• George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County).[31]
• Joseph K. Toole.[32]

See also

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

References

1. Ward 1974, p. 68.
2. Ward 1974, p. 72.
3. Ward 1974, p. 76.
4. Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
5. "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914-191?". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
6. Larson 1973, p. 31.
7. Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
8. Anthony 1902, p. 798.
9. Harper 1922, p. 362.
10. Ward 1974, p. 144.
11. Ward 1974, p. 28.
12. "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
13. Anthony 1902, p. 797.
14. Larson 1973, p. 33.
15. Kohl, Martha (2019-08-02). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
16. Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
17. "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. 1914-08-13. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-10-05 – via Newspapers.com.
18. Harper 1922, p. 360.
19. Winestine 1974, p. 71.
20. Winestine 1974, p. 72.
21. Ward 1974, p. 126.
22. Ward 1974, p. 122.
23. Ward 1974, p. 75.
24. Larson 1973, p. 30.
25. Larson 1973, p. 34.
26. Harper 1922, p. 364.
27. Winestine 1974, p. 73.
28. Larson 1973, p. 26.
29. Ward 1974, p. 142.
30. "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. 1907-05-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-06 – via Newspapers.com.
31. Ward 1974, p. 56.
32. 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. 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.