Women's Suffrage

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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.

Republican

  • Mrs. Vinnie (William) Annat
    • First chairman of the Wayne County Republican organization
  • Mrs. Myrtle C. (Elmer S.) Landes, Republican
  • Mr. Elmer S. Landes, county Chairman
  • Mrs. Ella F. (Rufus) Bucher, Republican

Republican Rally Speakers

The following is a list of rally speakers for the Republican party [1]

  • Mrs. W. G. Wyatt
  • Mrs. Dwight Patterson
  • Harry L. Davis
  • Congressman S. D. Fess
  • Congressman Roscoe McCulloch
  • Dr. John G. Wishard
  • H. R. Smith
  • W. G. Patterson
  • Dr. J. N. Wright
  • H. M. Doyle
  • Daniel C. Funk

Democratic

  • Mrs. John C. McClaran
    • First chairman of the Wayne County Democratic organization
  • Mrs. Florence VanNest Snavely
  • M. M. VanNest, county Chairman
  • Mrs. Charles Fahr
  • Miss Jean Darr
  • Mrs. L. C. Wagoner
  • Rev. Jennie Metsker
  • Mrs. L. R. Critchfield
  • Mrs. M. S. Miller
  • Mrs. H U. Mowery
  • Mrs. C. B. Slosnagle
  • Joseph Willford
    • Ohio State Senator, 1857 [2]
    • Resident of Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio
    • Delivered a "Woman's Rights Speech

Democratic Rally Speakers

The following is a list of rally speakers for the Democratic party [3]

  • Ida McGlone Gibson
  • Gertrude Fuller
  • Judge W. E. Weygandt
  • Professor Charles West
  • W. H. Ross
  • Judge L. R. Critchfield
  • Judge R. L. Adair
  • Judge C. A. Weiser
  • Dr. W. E. Chancellor
  • A. D. Metz

Unknown Political Affiliation

  • 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 [4]
  • Mrs. R. C. Paul
  • Mrs. G. M. Lemmon - 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. A. L. Palmer
  • Mrs. C. J. Barnhart
  • Mrs. E. M. Quinby
  • Mrs. R. J. Smith
  • Mrs. Compton
  • Mrs. J. C. Paul, Reedsburg
  • Miss Nina Lawrence, Wooster
  • Mrs. Will Gallentine, Creston [5]
    • 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 [6]
  • Adelaide Voorhees [7]
  • Ruth Martin [8]

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: [9]

  • 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: [10]

  • 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: [11]

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

Updated Research 20 February 2020

The following needs to be integrated into the Wiki page in a better format.

Wayne County, Ohio Suffragists

  1. Miss Mary Agnes Craig, College of Wooster student, 1916
  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.
  3. Miss Adelaide Voorhees, 1913
  4. Miss Ruth Martin, 1913
  5. Dr. Kate Johnson, drove a “Votes for Women Car” in the automobile parade held in Wooster, Ohio in 1913; won first prize
  6. Miss Mary Annat, formed a local Suffrage Committee, 1912
  7. Mrs. Mary (Booher) Metz
  8. 1857 Ohio State Senator Joseph Willford, resident of Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio
  9. Mrs. Emeline McSweeney
  10. Mrs. Elizabeth (Wood) Vance
  11. Mrs. Katherine E. Maize
  12. Mrs. Edna Dix
  13. Mrs. Victory Morris
  14. Alpha Armstrong Annat
  15. Mary Palmer
  16. Temperance Smith
  17. Lila Paul Quinby
  18. Warren Mullins
  19. Kate Gallentine Frick

Early School Board Member Nominees

  1. Miss Sarah E. Daily (Shreve Corporation), Board of Education
  2. Mrs. R. A. Garrett (People’sParty), Board of Education
  3. Mrs. Edith Sullivan (Congress Twp, 2nd Precinct)
  4. Mrs. MelissaWarner (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)

Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

References

  1. ↑ Hauenstein, E. H. "Wayne Co. Women Cast First Votes Here 30 Years Ago; The Chancelor Sensation". The Wooster Daily Record 17 October 1950.
  2. ↑ Wooster Republican 26 February 1857 p. 2
  3. ↑ Hauenstein, E. H. "Wayne Co. Women Cast First Votes Here 30 Years Ago; The Chancelor Sensation". The Wooster Daily Record 17 October 1950.
  4. ↑ Wooster Daily News 7 Aug 1912 p. 2
  5. ↑ Creston Journal 1914 OCT 07 p.5
  6. ↑ Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary Volume 1, p.856
  7. ↑ Wooster Daily News 6 Aug 1913 p. 1 col. 5
  8. ↑ Wooster Daily News 6 Aug 1913 p. 1 col. 5
  9. ↑ An Index, 1914. College of Wooster.
  10. ↑ An Index, 1915. College of Wooster.
  11. ↑ An Index, 1916. College of Wooster.
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