List of Ohio suffragists
This is a list of suffragists and groups from or who worked in Ohio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Ohio suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Ohio.
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Groups

- Cincinnati Central Suffrage Committee.[1]
- College Equal Suffrage League.[2]
- Columbus Equal Suffrage League.[2]
- Colored Women's Independent Political League (formerly the Colored Women's Republican Club).[3]
- Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Association (CCWSA), founded in 1910. Later became the Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party or the Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Party.[4]
- Dayton Woman's Suffrage Association (DWSA) is created around 1869.[5]
- Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association (FCWSA), formed in 1912.[6][2]
- Hamilton County Suffrage Association.[7]
- Men's Equal Suffrage League, established in Cleveland in 1911.[8]
- Newbury Women's Suffrage Political Club.[9]
- Ohio Men's League for Equal Suffrage, created in February 1912.[10]
- Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (OWSA), founded in 1885 in Painesville.[11]
- Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), first met in Ravenna on May 25, 1853.[12]
- Political Equality Club of Lima.[13]
- Shelby Equal Franchise Association, formed in 1912.[14]
- Sojourner Truth Women's Suffrage Association (STWSA).[2]
- Suffrage Association of Warren.[15]
- Suffrage Party of Lakewood.[16]
- Toledo Women's Suffrage Association (TWSA) is founded in 1869.[7]
- Woman Suffrage Party of Cleveland.[17]
- Woman's Suffrage Association of Dayton and Montgomery County, formed in 1912.[5]
- Woman's Suffrage Association of Richland County.[14]
Suffragists

- Florence E. Allen (Cleveland).[7]
- Dora Bachman (Cincinnati).[18]
- Elizabeth Bisbee (Columbus).[19]
- Ella Reeve Bloor (Columbus).[20]
- Minerva Kline Brooks (Cleveland).[4]
- Hallie Quinn Brown (Wilberforce).[7]
- Mary Edith Campbell (1876–1962) – first woman elected to the Board of Education in Cincinnati. (Cincinnati).[21]
- Frances Jennings Casement.[22]
- Katharine Benedicta Trotter Claypole (Akron).[23]
- Carrie Williams Clifford (Cleveland).[24]
- Harris R. Cooley (Cleveland).[8]
- Elizabeth Greer Coit (Columbus).[22]
- Olive Colton (Toledo).[25]
- Hannah Cutler.[26]
- Eliza Archard Conner (New Richmond).[27]
- Anna Julia Cooper (Xenia).[28]
- Betsy Mix Cowles (Ashtabula County).[24]
- Bessie Crayton (Lima).[29]
- Lucile Atcherson Curtis (Columbus).[30]
- Hannah Cutler.[31]
- Carrie Chase Davis.[32]
- Jesse Davisson (Dayton).[5]
- Edward A. Deeds (Dayton).[5]
- Zell Hart Deming (Warren) – suffragist, philanthropist, newspaper editor and the treasurer of the Ohio State Suffrage Association[33]
- Mary Douglas (Cincinnati).[1]
- Zara DuPont (1869–1946) – first vice president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (Cuyahoga).[34]
- Dora Easton (Cincinnati).[1]
- Louise Eastman (Cincinnati).[35]
- Martha H. Elwell.[36]
- Caroline McCullough Everhard (1843–1902) – American banker and suffragist, president of the Ohio Suffrage Association (Massillon).[37]
- Sara Evan Fletcher[38]
- Ellen Sulley Fray (Toledo).[22][39]
- Trixie Friganza (Cincinnati).[28]
- Frances Dana Gage.[19]
- Edith J. Goode (Springfield).[40]
- Josephine S. Griffing (Salem).[41]
- Mary Belle Grossman (Cleveland).[27]
- Laura C. Haeckl (Cincinnati).[1]
- Elizabeth Hauser (Cleveland).[4]
- Gillette Hayden (1880–1929) – dentist and periodontist.[42]
Jewelila Higgins (Dayton).[5]Florence E. Allen marching for women's suffrage in 1913 - Josephine Saxer Irwin (Cuyahoga County).[43]
- Rachel S. A. Janney.[22]
- Jane Hitchcock Jones.[26]
- Harriet Keeler (Cleveland).[4]
- Belle Coit Kelton (Columbus).[44]
- Betsey Lewis (Warren).[45]
- Mary MacMillan (Cincinnati).[24]
- Helen Wise Mallony (Cincinnati).[1]
- Lizzie Marvin (Shelby).[14]
- Lucia McCurdy McBride (Cleveland).[4]
- Dorothy Mead.[46]
- Marguerite Molliter (Cincinnati).[1]
- Henrietta G. Moore (Springfield).[36]
- John Moore (president of the United Mine Workers of Ohio).[47]
- Rosa Moorman.[48]
- John H. Patterson (Dayton).[5]
- Emma Maud Perkins (Cleveland).[49]
- Edna Brush Perkins (Cleveland).[49]
- Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins (Cleveland).[50]
- Laura Proctor (Cincinnati).[1]
- Mary Virginia Proctor (Lebanon).[51]
- Bernice Pyke (Lakewood).[52]
- H. Anna Quinby (Edenton).[53]
- Kenyon Hayden Rector (Columbus).[24]
- Nellie Robinson (Cincinnati).[1]
- Viola D. Romans (Cincinnati).[24]
- Sarah C. Schrader.[36]
- Rosa L. Segur (Toledo).[22]
- Caroline Severance.[7]
- Lydia DeVilbiss Shauk (Shelby).[14]
- Belle Sherwin (Cleveland).[7]
- Sarah Siewers (Cincinnati).[1]
- Ida Ricketts Snell (Cincinnati).[1]
- Louise Southgate (Cincinnati).[35]
- Louisa Southworth (Cleveland).[36]
- Doris Stevens (Dayton).[54]
- Pauline Perlmutter Steinem (Toledo).[7]
- Charles F. Thwing (Cleveland).[8]
- Harriet Taylor Upton (Warren).[55][7]
- Maude Edith Comstock Waitt (Lakewood).[56][24]
- Myron B. Vorce (Cleveland).[57]
- Alma Kephart Wilson (Cincinnati).[1]
- Bettie Wilson (Cincinnati).[7]
- Peter Witt (Cleveland).[8]
- Clara Snell Wolfe.[58]
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (Massillon).[37]
- Katharine Wright (Dayton).[5]
- Orville Wright (Dayton).[5]
- Mary Yeager (Cincinnati).
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Roland W. Baggott.[59]
- Newton D. Baker (Cleveland).[60]
- Ellsworth R. Bathrick (Akron).[61]
- James M. Cox (Dayton).[5]
- Joshua Giddings (Ashtabula County).[62]
- Tom L. Johnson (Cleveland).[60]
- William McKinley.[37]
- Jacob Henry Miller.[59]
- James A. Reynolds (Cuyahoga County).[4]
- Ezra B. Taylor (Warren).[63]
- Benjamin Wade (Ashtabula County).[62]
- Brand Whitlock (Toledo).[64]
Places
Publications
Suffragists who campaigned in Ohio

- Jane Addams.[8]
- Susan B. Anthony.[7]
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell.[67]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[13]
- Margaret Foley.[14]
- Elizabeth Freeman.[68]
- Laura A. Gregg.[36]
- Louise Hall.[69]
- Julia Ward Howe.[67]
- Laura M. Johns.[70]
- Rosalie G. Jones.[68]
- Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.[71]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[29]
- Sylvia Pankhurst.[1]
- Maud Wood Park.[72]
- Emily Pierson.[73]
- Jeannette Rankin.[8]
- Rose Schneiderman.[8]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[8]
- Florence Sherwood, president of the Wage Earners' Suffrage League of Chicago.[47]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[37]
- Lucy Stone.[3]
- Jane Thompson.[74]
- George Francis Train.[75]
- Sojourner Truth.[55]
- Camillo von Klenze.[17]
- Zerelda G. Wallace.[76]
- Bettina Borrmann Wells.[1]
Anti-suffrage
Groups
- Cincinnati and Hamilton County Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.[35]
- Ohio Women's Anti-Suffrage League.[13]
Anti-suffragists
See also
References
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