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==College of Wooster==
 
==College of Wooster==

Revision as of 09:34, 29 April 2021

Please note...This page is a work in progress.

Women received the right to vote in 1920. In February 2019, the Commemoration Committee for the Centennial of the 19th Amendment Committee was formed. The co-chairs were Nell Reardon and Deb Kitko. Soon after the committee formed, it became apparent that much research would be necessary to create a list of those local individuals who were involved in some way with the Women's Suffrage Movement. This page is devoted to those individuals who may have been involved with the Women's Suffrage.

Notation: Prior to 1917, the preferred terminology used was "Woman's Suffrage". Often, in the U.S. the terms "suffragette" and "suffragist" were interchanged. The preferred term used in the United States was "suffragist". Usually, when the term "suffragette" was used, it was derogatory. The exception would be those individuals who followed Alice Paul. She and her followers took a more militant approach in their attempt to win the right to vote for women.

Background

The Woman's Suffrage Movement had its start in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It grew out of the Women's Rights Movement. In 1840, there was a World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London, England. Several women who were abolitionists traveled to the city. They wanted to be active participants in this convention but were denied access to many of the sessions because they were women. It was here that Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met and initiated plans to hold a convention of their own -- one that women could be active participants and not denied access on account of their gender. These preliminary discussions became reality. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary M'Clintock, Martha Coffin Wright and Jane Hunt were the key organizers of the event.

On 18 August 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment. On 26 August 1920, U.S. Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby, certified the 19th Amendment was signed into law. The Presidential election on 2 November 1920 would become the first national election that women could vote. Leading up to the election, many rallies were held. Many Wayne Countians were involved in these rallies.

Following the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League of Women Voters. With the formation of this organization, women shifted their focus from winning the right to vote to supporting the new women suffrage rights. The Wayne County League of Women Voters was established later.

Wayne County, Ohio Suffragists

  1. Miss Mary Agnes Craig, College of Wooster student, 1916 [1]
  2. Mrs. Catherine “Kate” (Wilson) Gallentine, participated in Equal Suffrage parade in Cleveland, OH; carried the Wayne County banner, 1914; w/o William Wesley Gallentine, Sr. [2] [3]
  3. Miss Adelaide Voorhees, 1913 [4]
  4. Miss Ruth Martin, 1913 [5]
  5. Dr. Kate Johnson, drove a “Votes for Women Car” in the automobile parade held in Wooster, Ohio in 1913; won first prize [6] [7]
  6. Miss Mary Annat, formed a local Suffrage Committee, 1912 [8] [9]
  7. Mrs. Mary (Booher) Metz
  8. Mrs. Emeline McSweeney [10]
  9. Mrs. Elizabeth (Wood) Vance [11]
  10. Mrs. Katherine E. Maize [12] [13]
  11. Mrs. Edna Dix [14]
  12. Mrs. Victory Morris [15]
  13. Alpha Armstrong Annat
  14. Mary Palmer
  15. Temperance Smith
  16. Lila Paul Quinby
  17. Warren Mullins
  18. Kate Gallentine Frick
  19. Mrs. Louise Gimble [16]
  20. Miss Katharine Wertz [17]
  21. Miss Lillian Ritchie [18]
  22. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Smith [19]

College of Wooster

Class of 1913 Suffragists

Ten of thirty-three women graduating in 1913 were members of the Senior Suffragist Club. The following students were found to be members of the Suffragist Club: [20]

  • Hazel Eleanore Cole - Midvale, Ohio
  • Lelia Anna Compton - Wooster, Ohio
  • Mary Irwin - Detroit, Michigan
  • Elsa Marie Meckel - Lakewood, Ohio
  • Zenetta Harrison - Des Moines, Iowa
  • Isla Elizabeth McClure - Alliance, Ohio
  • Leota Munn (Chairman) - Portage, Ohio
  • Ruth Agnes Paden - Sumner, Iowa
  • Judith Edna Thomas - Alliance, Ohio
  • Marianna Mearns Wallace - Cleveland, Ohio

Class of 1914 Suffragists

Fifteen of twenty-nine women graduating in 1914 were members of the Senior Suffragist Club. The following students were found to be members of the Suffragist Club: [21]

  • Jessie Jean Becker - Montpelier, Ohio
  • Grace Marie Boyce -Dayton, Ohio
  • Nellie Chorpening - Ashland, Ohio
  • Mary Ellen Evans - Scott, Ohio
  • Blanche Lucinda Frazier - Dresden, Ohio
  • Clela May Gordon - Ashland, Ohio
  • Edith Howell (Chairman) - Freeport, Ohio
  • Elizabeth Belle McAdoo -Ashland, Ohio
  • Jeannette M. McBane -Salinevile, Ohio
  • Helen McCulloch - Freeport, Ohio
  • Margaret Ross Neave - Dresden, Ohio
  • Ruth Jewell Shearer - Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
  • Helen Beatrice Shipman - Leesburg, Pennsylvania
  • Rowena Berdine Smith - Wooster, Ohio
  • Verda May White - Northfield, Ohio

Class of 1915 Suffragists

In the 1916 College of Wooster yearbook, only three ladies could be found who were involved in the Senior Suffragette Club: [22]

  • Lurana June Brown (Chairman) - Fredericktown, Ohio
  • Mary Agnes Craig - Wooster, Ohio
  • Hazel May Edwards (Chairman) - Barberton, Ohio

Non-Wayne County Suffragists

(Research Updated 27 January 2021)

  • Miss Florence Allen (Cleveland)
    • Ohio Equal Suffrage Association
  • Charles Brooks, Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Women Suffrage Association
  • Mrs. Charles S. Brooke (Cleveland, Ohio), speaker
  • Anna Byall (1917), responded to letter from former Daltonian, Mr. Stoll (DG 22 Feb 1917)
  • Miss Davis
  • Miss Gracie Drake (Cleveland)
    • Ohio Equal Suffrage Association
  • Miss Dysart
  • Caroline McCullough Everhard
    • Born 1843 Massillon, Ohio
    • Died 1902
    • President of the Ohio Suffrage Association
  • Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser (Warren, Ohio)
    • Ohio Equal Suffrage Association
  • Anna Catherine (Kinsey) Haupert
    • Born June 1856
    • Married to Charles Haupert (?) 29 August 1880 Tuscarawas Co, Ohio
    • Spoke at Baptist Church
    • Husband was Superintendent of schools 1900-1908
  • Mrs. S. F. Hill
  • Mrs. Clara Irwin
    • Married to J. W. Irwin - Phys. and Surgeon
  • Miss Fern Keiffer
    • Daughter of Reverend
    • Taught German and Mathematics
  • Mrs. A. W. Kittinger
  • Hazel McClure (1910s)
  • Mrs. Medill McCormick, daughter of late Ohio Senator Mark Hanna
  • E. D. Merkel, Chairman of Camp and Hospital Service Committee (1945)
  • Mrs. C. O. Monroe
  • Mrs. Jane H. Newman (1917 School Board)
    • Widow of Henry Newman (?)
  • Eliza Pool
  • Mrs. Pringle (Devotional)
  • Miss Robertson
  • Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton (Warren, Ohio)
    • Ohio Equal Suffrage Association
  • Mrs. Marie Meca Varney (South Haven, Michigan)
    • Minister
    • Graduated Lombard College
    • In Women's Clubs
    • Traveled around talking about Women's Suffrage
    • Known Suffragette
    • Representative World WCTU
  • Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard
    • Member of WCTU
    • Right to end Women's Suffrage

Early Wayne County School Board Member Nominees

  1. Miss Sarah E. Daily (Shreve Corporation), Board of Education
  2. Mrs. R. A. Garrett (People’s Party), Board of Education
  3. Mrs. Edith Sullivan (Congress Twp, 2nd Precinct)
  4. Mrs. Melissa Warner (Congress Twp, Democratic ticket)
  5. Mrs. Isabelle Yocum (Wooster City, People’s Prohibition, Woman’s Franchise Association, Citizen’s Independent)
  6. Mrs. Ella Geisinger (Orrville, People’s Party)

Individuals of Interest

  • Miss Alfa Armstrong - Fredericksburg
    • First woman to hold county office in Wayne County, Ohio (Elected for the office of Clerk of Courts)
  • Miss Mary Annat
    • Attempted to form Suffrage Committee in 1912 [23]
  • Charity (Lawrence) Bell Stout - abolitionist, Underground Railroad Conductor
    • 1st marriage to Simeon Bell (d. 1833)
    • 2nd marriage to John M. Stout (m.1844)
    • Died in Chantham Township, Medina County, Ohio in 1861
  • Mrs. R. C. Paul
  • Mrs. Ila Lemmon (M. G. M.) - Wooster
  • Mrs. Cooper Davis
  • Lucile Grosjean
  • Anna Walter
  • Miss Conrow
  • Miss Welty
  • Emmeline Stibbs McSweeney
    • 1918 - faculty member of Wooster University to teach Greek; Later taught Latin and French (1924)
    • 1923 - appointed as Wooster University's first acting alumni secretary
  • M. A. Burris, WCTU columnist for Dalton Gazette, 1914
  • Mrs. Thomas Cully, WCTU columnist for Dalton Gazette, 1914
  • Mrs. Mary Palmer (m. Aaron L. Palmer)
  • Mrs. C. J. Barnhart
  • Mrs. E. M. Quinby
  • Mrs. Elizabeth Herron (Pollock) Smith
  • Mrs. Compton
  • Mrs. J. C. Paul, Reedsburg
  • Miss Nina Lawrence, Wooster
  • Mrs. Will Gallentine, Creston [24]
    • 1914 Mrs. Will Gallentine took part in the Equal Suffrage parade in Cleveland and carried the Wayne County banner.
  • Arletta L. Warren daughter of Dr. Rolan N. Warren and Lydia (Gleason) Warren [25]
  • Adelaide Voorhees [26]
  • Ruth Martin [27]
  • Joseph Willford
    • Ohio State Senator, 1857 [28]
    • Resident of Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio
    • Delivered a "Woman's Rights Speech"

Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

References

  1. ↑ College of Wooster. The Index, 1917
  2. ↑ Creston Journal 17 November 1915 p. 5
  3. ↑ "Local Items." Creston Journal. 7 October 1914 p. 5
  4. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  5. ↑ "Suffragettes More Active." Wooster Daily News. 21 March 1913 p. 1
  6. ↑ "Equal Suffrage Club." Wooster Daily News. 19 November 1913 p. 6
  7. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  8. ↑ "A Suffrage Club." Wooster Daily News. 7 August 1912 p. 2
  9. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  10. ↑ "Suffrage Meeting Held Saturday." Wooster Daily News. 17 March 1913 p. 4
  11. ↑ "Suffragettes More Active." Wooster Daily News. 21 March 1913 p. 1
  12. ↑ "Equal Suffrage Meeting." Wooster Daily News. 20 May 1913 p. 4
  13. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  14. ↑ "Suffragettes More Active." Wooster Daily News. 21 March 1913 p. 1
  15. ↑ "Suffragettes More Active." Wooster Daily News. 21 March 1913 p. 1
  16. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  17. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  18. ↑ "The Parade." Wooster Daily News. 4 August 1913 p. 2
  19. ↑ "Suffragettes Draw Crowd; Much Interest Shown." Wayne County Democrat. 10 July 1912 p. 7
  20. ↑ An Index, 1914. College of Wooster.
  21. ↑ An Index, 1915. College of Wooster.
  22. ↑ An Index, 1916. College of Wooster.
  23. ↑ Wooster Daily News 7 Aug 1912 p. 2
  24. ↑ Creston Journal 1914 OCT 07 p.5
  25. ↑ Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary Volume 1, p.856
  26. ↑ Wooster Daily News 6 Aug 1913 p. 1 col. 5
  27. ↑ Wooster Daily News 6 Aug 1913 p. 1 col. 5
  28. ↑ Wooster Republican 26 February 1857 p. 2
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