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]
- Bozeman Equal Suffrage Club, documented in 1895.[2]
- Helena Business Women's Suffrage Club.[3]
- Helena Equal Suffrage Club.[4]
- Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.[5]
- Montana Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), created in 1912.[6]
- Montana Men's Equal Suffrage League.[6]
- Montana Woman's Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1895.[7]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[8]
Suffragists
- Lillian Agnew (Great Falls).[9]
- Mary Long Alderson.[9]
- Mabel E. Staats (Bozeman).[10]
- Mary B. Atwater.[11]
- Ida Auerbach.[12]
- Edith Clinch.[13]
- Helen P. Clarke.[9]
- Eva Warren Collier (Bedford).[14]
- Ota E. Cummings (Billings).[15]
- Maria M. Dean (Helena).[16]
- Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena).[17]
- Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County).[18]
- Hazel Hunkins (Billings).[18]
- Emma Ingalls (Flathead County).[18]
- Grace Rankin Kinney.[12]
- Mary Alderson Long.[8]
- Clara McAdow (Fergus County).[19]
- Mary E. O'Neill (Butte).[15]
- Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann (Great Falls).[9]
- Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County).[18]
- Wellington D. Rankin.[20]
- Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.[21]
- Harriet P. Sanders.[7]
- Sarepta Sanders (Helena).[7]
- Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).[22]
- Gertrude Sylvester.[9]
- Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).[15]
- Clara B. Tower.[23]
- Josephine Trigg (Great Falls).[9]
- Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls).[9]
- Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).[12]
- Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).[24]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Joseph Burt Annin.[25]
- Peter Breen.[16]
- William A. Clark.[16]
- John S. Huseby.[11]
- Hiram Knowles.[16]
- Perry McAdow (Fergus County).[19]
- Wellington Rankin.[6]
- Francis E. Sargeant.[16]
Publications
Suffragists campaigning in Montana
Anti-suffragists
Groups
- Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.[34]
- Travel Club of Great Falls.[35]
Politicians opposing women's suffrage
- Allen Joy.[16]
- Martin Maginnis.[16]
- George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County).[36]
- Joseph K. Toole.[37]
See also
References
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 68.
- ↑ "Equal Suffrage Club". The New Issue. Bozeman, Montana. October 11, 1895 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 72.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 76.
- 1 2 Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
- 1 2 3 4 "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914–191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
- 1 2 3 Larson 1973, p. 31.
- 1 2 Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Inbody, Kristen (November 6, 2018). "Voted? Thank a Montana Suffragist". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved March 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com."Suffragists". Great Falls Tribune. November 6, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Crystal Alegria, “History of Property,” in S. Wells and E. Wren, 311 South Grand Avenue Architecture & Engineering Record, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, March 26, 2025, p. 4.
- 1 2 Anthony 1902, p. 798.
- 1 2 3 Harper 1922, p. 362.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 144.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 28.
- 1 2 3 "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Anthony 1902, p. 797.
- ↑ Larson 1973, p. 33.
- 1 2 3 4 Kohl, Martha (August 2, 2019). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
- 1 2 3 Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 363.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. August 13, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved October 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 360.
- ↑ Winestine 1974, p. 71.
- ↑ Winestine 1974, p. 72.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 126.
- 1 2 3 Ward 1974, p. 122.
- 1 2 Ward 1974, p. 75.
- ↑ Larson 1973, p. 30.
- 1 2 Larson 1973, p. 34.
- 1 2 Harper 1922, p. 364.
- ↑ Winestine 1974, p. 73.
- ↑ Larson 1973, p. 26.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 142.
- ↑ "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. May 3, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved October 6, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Ward 1974, p. 56.
- ↑ Inbody, Kristen (November 8, 2014). "Women's suffrage: Montana backers targeted their message to each group they spoke with". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
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.
- 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.
- 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.