List of Delaware suffragists

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

Groups

Delaware Equal Suffrage Association letterhead, 1916.

• Arden Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1912.[1]
• Congressional Union (CU).[2]
• Delaware Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), formed in 1895.[3][4]
• Delaware Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.[2]
• Equal Suffrage Study Club.[5]
• New Castle Equal Suffrage Association.[6]
• Newport Equal Suffrage Association.[6]
• National Women's Party (NWP).[2]
• Wilmington Equal Suffrage Club (or Association), formed in 1895.[2]
• Wilmington Equal Suffrage Suffrage Study Club (WESSC).[7]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Delaware.[2]

Suffragists

Catherine Boyle c. 1910-1920

• Helen Wormley Anderson .[8]
• Annie Arniel (Wilmington).[9]
• Rachel Foster Avery (Wilmington).[10]
• Anna Cootsman Bach.[8]
• Alice Gertrude Baldwin (Wilmington).[2]
• Ida Perkins Ball.[8]
• Mary Richardson Bancroft.[8]
• Naomi Barrett (Wilmington).[9]
• Catherine Boyle (New Castle).[9]
• Mary Clare Brassington.[2]
• Mary E. Brown (Wilmington).[11]
• Eleanor Morris Burnet.[8]
• Emma Jester Burnett.[8]
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Wilmington).[9]
• Martha Churchman Cranston.[2]
• Mary R. De Vou (Wilmington).[12]
• Mabel F. Donahoe.[8]
• Bessie Spence Dorrell .[5]
• Agnes Y. Downey (Wilmington).[13]
• Rose Lippincott Hizar Duggin.[8]
• Josephine Anderson du Pont.[8]
• Mary Seward Pillips Eskridge.[8]
• Sallie Topkis Ginns (Wilmington).[8]
• Susie Estella Palmer Hamilton.[8]
• Rosewell Hammond.[8]
• Florence Hilles (New Castle).[9]
• Robert G. Houston (Georgetown).[14]
• Margaret W. Houston.[3]
• Caroline Taylor Hughes.[8]
• Ella W. Johnson.[8]
• Etta Gray Jones (Bridgeville).[15]
• Margaret Harrigon Kent.[8]
• Marie T. Lockwood (Middletown).[16]
• Emma Maria Lore (Wilmington).[17]
• Annie J. Magee (Wilmington).[18]
• Mary H. Askew Mather.[8]
• Mary E. Marchand Milligan.[8]
  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
• Winifred Morris.[8]
• Anna Fisher Morse.[8]
• Alice Dunbar Nelson (Wilmington).[5]
• Nellie Nicholson (Wilmington).[19]
• Gertrude Fulton Nields.[8]
• Mary Ospina (Wilmington).[2][20]
• Jane White Pennewill.[8]
• Mary Price Phillips.[8]
• Adelina Piunti (New Castle).[21]
• Mabel Lloyd Ridgely (Dover).[2]
• Eva Halpern Robin.[2]
• Elizabeth G. Robinson.[3]
• Willabelle Shurter.[8]
• Frank Stephens (Arden).[22]
• Mary Ann Sorden Stuart (Greenwood).[2]
• Blanche Williams Stubbs (Wilmington).[5]
• Emma Gibson Sykes (Wilmington).[5]
• Mabel Vernon (Wilmington).[9]
• Elizabeth Walling.[3]
• Emalea Pusey Warner.[2]
• Sadie Monroe Waters (Greenwood).[23]
• Anna Beauchamp Reynolds Wedler.[8]
• Caroline B. Williams (Wilmington).[19]
• Mary J. Woodlen (Wilmington).[2]
• Emma Worrell.[2]

Politicians in support of women's suffrage

• T. Coleman du Pont.[2]
• John G. Townsend, Jr.[24]

Places

• Hotel DuPont (Wilmington).[13]
• New Castle County Courthouse (New Castle).[25]

Suffragists who campaigned in Delaware

• Lida Stokes Adams.[22]
• Lucy E. Anthony.[26]
• Susan B. Anthony.[2]
• Mary C. C. Bradford.[3]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.[9]
• Mary Ware Dennett.[1]
• Susan S. Fessenden.[26]
• Helen Hoy Greeley.[27]
• Laura A. Gregg.[3]
• Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale.[6]
• Florence Jaffray Harriman.[6]
• Mary Garrett Hay.[10]
• Elsie Hill.[2]
• Diana Hirschler.[3]
• Anna Maxwell Jones.[27]
• Rosalie Jones.[1]
• Belva Lockwood.[2]
• Maria McMahon.[24]
• Harriet May Mills.[6]
• Henrietta G. Moore.[10]
• Emmeline Pankhurst.[2]
• Maud Wood Park.[6]
• Jeannette Rankin.[2]
• Anna Howard Shaw.[3]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[2]
• Mary Church Terrell.[2]
• Lola Trax.[13]
• Harriet Taylor Upton.[1]
• Narcissa Cox Vanderlip.[6]
• Mary Heald Way.[3]
• Mary Winsor.[26]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Delaware Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (DAOWS), formed in 1914.[2][28]

People

• Elizabeth du Pont Bayard.[28]
• Amy du Pont.[28]
• Emily Bissell (Wilmington).[2]
• May du Pont Saulsbury.[28]
• Mary Wilson Thompson (Greenville).[2][28]

Politicians

• Henry P. Scott.[19]

See also

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

References

1. Harper 1922, p. 89.
2. Boylan, Anne M. (Summer 2019). "Delaware Women's Suffrage Timeline" (PDF). Delaware Historical Society. League of Women Voters. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
3. Anthony 1902, p. 564.
4. Hoffecker 1983, p. 150.
5. Stopyra, Diane (17 August 2020). "African American suffragists". UDaily. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
6. Harper 1922, p. 86.
7. "Delaware and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
8. Boylan, Anne M. (September 2019). "Delaware Suffrage Leaders" (PDF). Women's Vote Delaware. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
9. "Suffragists in Delaware". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
10. Anthony 1902, p. 563.
11. Cantoran-Torres, Veronica; Miles, Cameron. "Biographical Sketch of Mary E. Brown". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
12. Boylan 2020, p. 22. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBoylan2020 (help)
13. Harper 1922, p. 91.
14. Harper 1922, p. 98-99.
15. Bramhall, Sue (17 March 2020). "Local suffragists deserve recognition and thanks". Cape Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
16. "The Suffrage Shebang: Middletown and Women's Suffrage -". Middletown, Delaware History. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
17. Turrell, Kate. "Biographical Sketch of Emma Maria Lore". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
18. DiMarco, Gabriella; Shields, Maeve. "Biographical Sketch of Annie J. Magee [or McGee]". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
19. Englehart, Lora Bilton (2020-07-24). "We Look Back at Delaware's Integral Role in the Fight for Women's Voting Rights". Delaware Today. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
20. Boylan, Anne M. "Biographical Sketch of Mary A. Ospina". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
21. Hall, Colleen. "Biographical Sketch of Adelina Piunti (DiSabatino)". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
22. Harper 1922, p. 88.
23. Boylan, Anne M. (20 October 2020). "Bridgeville's Sadie Waters and the 19th Amendment". Cape Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
24. Harper 1922, p. 92.
25. Hoffecker 1983, p. 155.
26. Harper 1922, p. 87.
27. Harper 1922, p. 90.
28. "The Anti-suffragists". Votes for Delaware Women. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Boylan, Anne M. (2020). "Delaware Suffragist Biographies" (PDF). Women's Vote.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Hoffecker, Carol E. (Spring 1983). "Delaware's Woman Suffrage Campaign" (PDF). Delaware History. 20 (3): 149–167.

External links

• Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to Mary R. de Vou
• Votes for Delaware Women: A Centennial Exhibition (online exhibition) at Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press