List of Nevada suffragists

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

Groups

• Churchill County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Douglas County Equal Suffrage League.[2]
• Esmerelda County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Eureka County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Humboldt County Equal Suffrage League.[3]
• Lucy Stone Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League, formed in Austin, Nevada in 1894.[4]
• The Men's League of Nevada, created in 1914.[5]
• Nevada Equal Franchise Society (NEFS).[6]
• Nevada Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1895.[7]
• Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs.[8]
• Non-Militant Suffrage Association, formed in 1911.[9]
• Ormsby County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Sparks Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• State Equal Suffrage Association.[10]
• Storey County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Washoe County Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[4]

Suffragists

Sadie D. Hurst for Nevada Assembly ad, November 4, 1918

• Mary Babcock.[4]
• Hellen Ann Lovelock Bonnifield (Winnemucca).[3]
• Hanna K. Clapp.[4]
• Felice Cohn (Carson City).[7]
• Eliza Cook (Douglas County).[2]
• Mary Stoddard Doten.[2]
• Bessie R. Lucas Eichelberger (Reno and Washoe County).[11]
• Minnie Flannigan.[8]
• Maud Gassoway.[8]
• John I. Ginn (Elko).[12]
• Laura DeForce Gordon (Virginia City).[13]
• Florence Humphrey (Washoe).[1]
• Sadie D. Hurst (Washoe).[1]
• Alexandrine La Tourette.[8]
• Sarah Emeline Mack (Reno).[14]
• Anne Henrietta Martin (Reno).[6]
• Mila Tupper Maynard (Reno).[7]
• Helena Suzanne Bidwell Norton (Reno).[15]
• Elda Ann Williams Simpson Orr (Reno).[16]
• Delphine Squires (Las Vegas).[6]
• Fannie Weller (Austin).[7]
• Frances Slaven Williamson (Austin and Reno).[10]
• Bird Wilson (Goldfield).[6]
• Jeanne Wier.[17]

Politicians who supported women's suffrage

• M. S. Bonnifield (Humboldt County).[12]
• Oscar Grey.[7]
• Curtis J. Hillyer (Storey County).[6]

Publications

• The Nevada Citizen, published by Frances Slaven Williamson and Mary Laura Williamson.[10]

Suffragists who campaigned in Nevada

Suffrage Special women in Carson City meeting with the governor, April 27, 1916

• Jane Addams.[18]
• Susan B. Anthony.[4]
• Bessie Beatty.[19]
• Harriot Stanton Blatch.[20]
• Lucy Burns.[20]
• Laura Gregg Cannon.[21]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.[22]
• Anne Constable.[20]
• Grace Cotterill.[19]
• Minnie Fisher Cunningham.[23]
• Emma Smith DeVoe.[4]
• Sara Bard Field.[24]
• Margaret A. Foley.[21]
• Antoinette Funk.[25]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman.[26]
• Florence Bayard Hilles.[20]
• Rosalie Jones.[24]
• Caroline Katzenstein.[20]
• Annie Kenney.[24]
• Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[18]
• James Lees Laidlaw.[18]
• Gail Laughlin.[24]
• Maud Leonard McCreery.[27]
• Alice Park.[24]
• Valeria H. Parker.[22]
• Ella Riegel.[20]
• Mary E. Ringrose.[28]
• Elizabeth Selden Rogers.[20]
• Marjorie Shuler.[22]
• Anna Howard Shaw.[4]
• Mary Sperry.[24]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[29]
• Emily A. Pitts Stevens.[12]
• Eleanor Stewart.[24]
• Helen Todd.[20]
• Mabel Vernon.[18]
• Charlotte Anita Whitney.[24]
• Maud Younger.[24]

Anti-suffragists

People

• Emma Adams.[7]
• Anna Fitch.[13]
• George Wingfield.[30]

Groups

• Nevada Association of Women Opposed to Equal Suffrage (NAWOWS).[7]

Anti-suffragists who campaigned in Nevada

• Minnie Bronson.[30]

See also

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

References

1. Mueller, Megg (January 2020). "A Century of Suffrage". Nevada Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
2. Skorupa, Susan (21 July 2014). "Nevada Women's History Project celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage". Reno Gazette Journal. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
3. "Suffragists in Nevada". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
4. Anthony 1902, p. 810.
5. "Nevada Suffrage Leaders Meet". The Sacramento Union. 24 February 1914. Retrieved 28 November 2020 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
6. "Women in Nevada History". Nevada Suffrage. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
7. Bennett, Dana R.; Reno, Mona. "Nevada Suffrage Timeline". Nevada Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
8. Harper 1922, p. 388.
9. "Felice Cohn". ONE. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
10. Wilkins, Sally. "FRANCES SLAVEN WILLIAMSON". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
11. Bernard, Patti; Falcone, Kitty. "BESSIE R. LUCAS EICHELBERGER". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
12. Ford & Hulse 1995, p. 181.
13. Ford & Hulse 1995, p. 177.
14. Falcone, Kitty. "Sarah Emeline (Emma) Mack". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
15. Bennett, Dana R. "Helena Suzanne (Lena) Bidwell Norton". Nevada Women's History Project. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
16. Malek, Sue. "Genealogy and Family History: Suffragist". TMCC. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
17. McGinness, Brett (26 August 2020). "Famed Washoe basket weaver among Nevada's influential Women of the Century". USA Today. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
18. Harper 1922, p. 387.
19. Mead 2004, p. 164.
20. ""Suffrage Special' Arrives and Members Put in a Busy Day". The Daily Appeal. 1916-04-27. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-27 – via Newspapers.com.
21. Harper 1922, p. 397.
22. Harper 1922, p. 391.
23. Harper 1922, p. 390.
24. Harper 1922, p. 398.
25. Lumsden, Linda J. (1997). Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-57233-163-1.
26. "Woman Suffrage: Tactics". Nevada Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
27. Mead 2004, p. 168.
28. Mead 2004, p. 169.
29. Ford & Hulse 1995, p. 186.
30. Marcus, Emerson (28 October 2014). "'Epic in politics': Nevada women got vote a century ago". Reno Gazette Journal. Retrieved 2020-11-27.

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Ford, Jean; Hulse, James W. (Fall 1995). "The First Battle for Woman Suffrage in Nevada: 1869-1871 – Correcting and Expanding the Record" (PDF). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 38 (3): 174–188.
• Mead, Rebecca J. (2004). How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814756768 – via Internet Archive.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.