Organization(s) associated with building/site/monument

Address of historic building/site/monument

Website of building/site/historical marker/monument

Please consider this site for a Pomeroy Marker.

aorozco14@csustan.edu

Oshkosh Public Museum Virtual Exhibit

This is a virtual exhibit based on artifacts and archival materials owned by the Oshkosh Public Museum

http://www.oshkoshmuseum.org/Virtual/exhibit1/vexmain1.htm

Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association

State suffrage school advertisement, 1914. http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/54082

maggie.mcclain90@gmail.com

At Pedrick Wayside, WI-23, Ripon, Fond du Lac County

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS3210

christinec@newlondonwi.org

Richland Center

Home of Laura Briggs James and David Goodrich James. David was a prominent businessman in Richland Center, and served as a Republican state senator for the district. Laura and other women in town founded the Richland Center Woman's Club in 1882, and they (secretly) fought for women's suffrage through this woman's club.

Mary Elizabeth Hussong, "How Earliest Enthusiasts Led Sisters," Milwaukee Journal, December 21, 1924.
D.G. James House, 383 East Haseltine Street, 1870. City of Richland Center, Wisconsin.

maggie.mcclain90@gmail.com

Park commemorating Theodora Youmans, the first president of the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association.

http://www.wisconsinhistoricalmarkers.com/2015/03/youmans-park.html
Spring City's Past: A Thematic History of Waukesha

public square, World War I memorial

Organization(s) associated with building/site/monument

Address of historic building/site/monument

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Please consider this site for a Pomeroy Marker.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154883441/belle-lafollette

earthenwarehaven@gmail.com

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

https://www.nps.gov/mamc/index.htm

https://www.nps.gov/mamc/learn/historyculture/bethune-resume.htm

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

District of Columbia

Washington D.C.

Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument

Historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movement. It was built on capitol hill in 1800.

drosales3@csustan.edu

Schumacher Building - Edmonds Tribune

This building housed one of the first women managers of a newspaper in the United States. Ms. M.(Missouri) T.B. Hanna was a prominent citizen and political activist for the suffragette movement. As a widowed mother, writer, speaker, and manager who attracted fame, she finally sold The Edmonds Review to further her energies to the women's suffrage movement, which became theThe Edmonds Equal Suffrage Club, formed in 1907 with Ms. John McNamara.

Ms. M.(Missouri) T.B. Hanna, [1857-1926], Newspaper Manager

Edmonds Tribune -Review, Washington Suffrage Movement

1. The State of Washington, Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, http://www.historylink.org/File/8690.

2. LaWarren, Charles. https://patch.com/washington/edmonds/the-edmonds-tribune-review-seventy-years-covering-edm1ae387bf53 (A noted historian and educator in the Edmonds School District).

3. Satterfield, Archie. Edmonds - The First Century. City of Edmonds, Washington Publishers, 1990.

Rita Ireland, Co-Director of LWV Snohomish County

Hanna, from 1909 to 1911, edited Votes for Women, the official newspaper of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association. Snohomish County suffrage workers effectively utilized the support of two groups, organized labor and the Grange, to help deliver the 2 to 1 state victory that gave Washington women the vote on November 8, 1910 ... ten years before the 19th Amendment. (now Chantrelle's Restaurant)

The theater was used to provide a lecture by Susan B. Anthony about women's Suffrage

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SFC18960608.2.56&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-susan+b.+anthony+seattle----
http://www.womanscenturyclub.org/history/history/#_edn8
http://seattletheatrehistory.org/historical-overview/1883-1889

A social club focused on women's history, the arts, education, and community service.

Carrie Chapman Catt - served as clubs first president

during the first week of July 1909, suffrage proponents from across the country gathered in Seattle to participate in the 41st Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and to celebrate Woman Suffrage Day at Washington's first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (A-Y-P) Exposition, currently underway on the University of Washington campus. The Washington Equal Suffrage Association convention, held the day before the National convention, drew suffragists from around the state. The suffragists, their conventions, and their appearances in area clubs and churches received copious coverage in local newspapers and captured the attention of thousands of Washingtonians attending the A-Y-P Exposition. Suffragists used the A-Y-P as a massive public relations opportunity and this exposure was an important component in how Washington women achieved the vote on November 8, 1910.

The Washington Equal Suffrage Association

Home of Daniel Bigelow and his wife Ann Elizabeth Bigelow, early pioneers in Washington's history and supporters of women's rights. Daniel persuaded his fellow lawmakers to allow Susan B. Anthony to give an address to the Washington Territorial Legislature about women's suffrage in 1871. Susan was a guest at the Bigelows' house during this visit. The house is a museum today, and a historical marker commemorates Susan's visit there.

Susan B. Anthony; Daniel and Ann Elizabeth Bigelow

918 Glass Ave NE Olympia, WA 98506

http://www.theolympian.com/news/article25304827.html; https://olympiahistory.org/bigelow-house/

mramich611@gmail.com

This was the site of Olympic Hall (also known as Tacoma Hall), where Susan B. Anthony gave a suffrage speech about "The Power of the Ballot" in 1871 during her visit to Olympia, and where the first Washington Women's Suffrage Association Convention was held that same year. The original building does not exist - the present building (known as Barnes Building/Knights of Pythias Lodge) was built around 1911.

Washington Women's Suffrage Association

http://www.washingtonhistory.org/files/library/SusanBAnthonyInspiresWashington.pdf; http://www.washingtonhistory.org/files/library/HereCometheSuffragists.pdf; https://fortress.wa.gov/dahp/wisaardp3/api/api/resultgroup/1163/Document/187641

mramich611@gmail.com

Susan B. Anthony gives the first of two lectures on female suffrage at Yesler’s Pavilion.

Fairfax County

Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

cmatthews1@csustan.edu

This museum is an American organization that collects contributions from women in the social, cultural, economic and political life aspects. There are current plans to create a permanent museum in Washington D.C.

205 S. Whiting Street, Suite 254, Alexandria, Virginia

Walker's house during Jim Crow era in early 20th century. she was the first african american to charter a bank. she was a community leader and business woman. she advocated for african american women's rights.

https://www.nps.gov/mawa/learn/historyculture/index.htm, https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/Maggie_Walker/Maggie_Walker_bio.html

dprasad3@csustan.edu

Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum

Museum dedicated to First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson - Suffrage exhibition planned for 2019.

Museum is open Tuesday - Saturday

shilohholley@edithbollingwilson.org

Salt Lake City

Four Congressional Union organizers stayed at the Hotel Utah in early October, 1915, during their historic automobile trip from San Francisco to Washington DC. They were bringing to Congress and President Woodrow Wilson a petition signed by 500,000 people demanding an amendment to the US Constitution enfranchising women. Field, Kindstedt, and Kindberg were driving in an Overland Six automobile. Prior to arriving in Salt Lake City they had gotten lost in the desert when the man they'd hired to drive them took the wrong road. That was the last time they hired a driver. Vernon served as their advance agent who traveled ahead of them by train.

While in Salt Lake City they had a mass meeting at the capital attended by Governor Spry, US Representative Joseph Howell, and Mayor Park. The envoys were greeted on the steps of the capital by Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon and Margaret Zane Cherdron, Chairman of the Utah branch of the Congressional Union.

Mabel Vernon, Sara Bard Field, Ingeborg Kindstedt, Maria Kindberg

Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Corner of Main and South Temple Streets

agassmaine@gmail.com

Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City

Susan B. Anthony came to this spot in 1895, speaking to a crowd of 6,000 during the Rocky Mountain suffrage convention to congratulate them on being the 3rd state in the nation to give women suffrage.

Utah Chapter of the National Women Suffrage Association

https://www.betterdays2020.com/blog/2017/12/15/susan-b-anthony-and-her-strong-utah-ties.

A Texas Historical Marker honoring the role of Dallas women in achieving full suffrage rights for Texas women was dedicated October 14, 2010, outside the Dallas County Old Red County Courthouse.

The Dallas Equal Suffrage Association

drosales3@csustan.edu

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3PX9

National American Woman Suffrage Association, Tennessee State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, Southern Woman's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment

Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument, Inc.

Life Dates: 1876 - 1955, Parade date: 1914

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3PX9

Tennessee State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage; Southern Woman's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment

Burial site of Anne Dallas Dudley, a state and national leader in the women's suffrage movement.

Mount Olivet Cemetery, Section 12, Dallas lot, headstone

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34691770&df

patriciacmitchell@gmail.com

Burial site of Bettie Mizell Donelson, early activist in the temperance and suffrage movements.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102563796

patriciacmitchell@gmail.com

Located near the original site of the Tennessee Vocational School for Colored Girls founded by J. Frankie Pierce in 1921. Pierce was a suffragist who spoke at the May 1920 state suffrage convention.

Tennessee Vocational School for Colored Girls

Corner of W. Heiman Street and Ed Temple Boulevard

http://www.lat34north.com/HistoricMarkersTN/MarkerDetail.cfm?KeyID=019-0097

Tennessean (https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2015/02/11/black-history-month-j-frankie-pierce-school/23254749/)

patriciacmitchell@gmail.com

Guildford Sr. and Anne Dallas Dudley House

The Guilford, Sr. and Anne Dallas Dudley House was built in 1928 and is the former home of Tennessee suffragist Anne Dallas Dudley. The home is a notable example of the Tudor Revival style. The dwelling
was constructed at the top of an 850' hill south of downtown Nashville and was originally the center of a large estate. Also known as
Hunter's Hill, the dwelling is now sited on a wooded 6.2-acre tract in the incorporated community of Forest Hills. The house faces north
and has a commanding view of downtown Nashville. The dwelling has not been extensively altered since its construction, and it retains much of its original design and setting.

Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association AND National American Woman Suffrage Association

United States Department of the Interior
National Register of Historic Places

hannah.rexrode@yahoo.com

Chattanooga

Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, Tennessee League of Women Voters

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=74631

Chattanooga

Now Patten Towers, the Hotel Patten was the site of the Eighth Annual Convention of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association on December 9, 1915.

Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association

Abby Crawford Milton Papers, Tennessee State Library and Archives

patriciacmitchell@gmail.com

East Tennessee Foundation Suffrage Statue

http://tnwomansmemorial.org/index.html

The Ossoli Circle Club was started by Lizzie Crozier French, who was active in the Women's National Party and lobbied East Tennessee lawmakers for their vote before they convened in a special session in August 1920 to consider the 19th amendment. Ossoli has long played an active role in obtaining economic and educational opportunities for women in Tennessee, and its members campaigned for the passage of the 19th Amendment in the early 1900s.The club is a charter member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the first federated women's club in the South.

General Federation of Women's Clubs

http://www.gfwcossolicircle.org/HOME.html

Harry Burn, Phoebe (Febb) Ensminger Burn

Corner or Market Street and Clinch Ave.

http://suffragecoalition.org/burn-memorial/

hannah.rexrode@yahoo.com

Monument to Representative Harry T. Burn and his mother, Phoebe "Miss Febb" Ensminger Burn who both helped make Tennessee the "Perfect 36."

Harry T. Burn, Phoebe "Miss Febb" Ensminger Burn

Corner of Market Street and Clinch Avenue

http://suffragecoalition.org/burn-memorial/

hannah.rexrode@yahoo.com

Sue Shelton White was an equal rights activist and the first woman attorney in Jackson. She helped organize the Jackson Equal Suffrage League and became Tennessee’s chairperson of the National Woman’s Party. In 1919, White was sentenced to five days in the workhouse for burning a picture of President Woodrow Wilson as she picketed at the White House. She is the only known Tennessee suffragist to spend time in jail for suffrage work.

Tennessee State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage; Southern Woman's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment; Hermitage Hotel; Ryman Auditorium

http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/bit.ly/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=157175573

A native of Niota, Harry T. Burn held public office for much of his adult life; State House of Representatives, 1919-23; State Senate, 1949-53; State Planning Commission, 1952-58; delegate of Roane County to the Constitutional Conventions of 1953, 1959, 1965. However, he is best remembered for an action he took during his first term in the legislature. On August 18, 1920, he changed his vote to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and it became law, giving women the right to vote.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM27JJ

Tennessee State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage; Southern Woman's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment; Hermitage Hotel

http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/bit.ly/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=157175573

Born in Memphis in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was noted as a champion of human rights. The daughter of millionaire Robert Church, Sr., she was graduated from Oberlin College in 1884 and later made her home in Washington, D.C. In 1904, she was a delegate to the International Council of Women in Berlin, where she was the only woman to address the group in French, German and English. A 1909 charter member of the N.A.A.C.P., she was an active worker for women’s suffrage and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, in the 1950s she lead marches to desegregate restaurants in Washington, D.C. She authored A Colored Woman in a White World.

National Association of Colored Women's Club; National Woman's Party; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; International Council of Women

https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=63342

Members of the Memphis Equal Suffrage league met in the parlor of the Hotel Chisca on January 10, 1919 to discuss several issues related to securing women the right to vote in the United States. The first order of business was a discussion of whether or not the league should merge with the statewide Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association. The group voted overwhelmingly to join with the TESA and offered its unqualified support to the current TESA president, Katherine Burch Warner of Nashville. Also adopted was the draft of a telegram to be sent to political leaders that read, “The Memphis Equal Suffrage League urges that as the national suffrage amendment is sure to pass, you ask the Tennessee delegation not to put the affront of a negative vote upon the women of Tennessee.”

On This Day in Memphis History, by Wayne Dowdy. Published 2014.

The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]), 19 April 1890. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

Faulk County

The home of prominent suffrage advocates John and Alice Pickler active in the Dakota suffrage movement from at least 1885 to 1914. Susan B. Anthony stayed at the house during the 1890 state campaign.

John A. Pickler, Alice M. Alt Pickler, Susan B. Anthony

South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association

https://faulktoncity.org/?SEC=33D25F97-5797-4B09-B546-272989C4C269

"Pickler, Major John A., Homestead" (1973), National Register of Historic Places Nomination, #73001742.
Ellis, C.H. History of Faulk County, South Dakota. Faulkton SD: Record Print, 1909.
Kingsbury, George W. [and George Martin Smith], History of Dakota Territory. Vols. 3, 5. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1915.
Wittmayer, Ceclia M. “The 1889-1890 Woman Suffrage Campaign: A Need to Organize.” South Dakota History (1982), 199-225.
Dorinda Riessen Reed, The Woman Suffrage Movement in South Dakota. Pierre: Commission on the Status of Women, 1975 [1958].
Emma Smith DeVoe Papers, Washington State Library.
Mamie Shields Pyle Papers, University of South Dakota.
SD Newspapers including: Press & Daily Dakotaian (Yankton SD), January 28, 1885. Wessington Springs Herald (SD), December 6, 1889. Mitchell Capital (SD), December 4, 1891; September 24, 1897; and September 17, 1914. Herald-Advance (Milbank SD), January 1, 1892. Hot Springs Weekly Star (SD), February 1, 1907. Pierre Weekly Free Press (SD), December 1, 1910. Saturday News (Watertown SD), November 14, 1918.

Lat/Long 45.027338, -99.125046; UTM NAD_1983 Zone 14 x:490149.887517, y:4985994.093472

Home of Mamie Shields Pyle, president of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League and leader of the state suffrage movement from December 1910 through state ratification of national suffrage in December 1919. The house was built by John and Mamie Pyle in 1894. The house is now a local museum focused on the Pyle family. Daughter Gladys Pyle became politically influential in the state, including a run for Republican nomination for governor in 1930 and election to the U.S. Senate in 1938.

1910-1919, Mamie Pyle inhabited the house from 1894 to 1949.

South Dakota Universal Franchise League

https://www.huronsd.com/visiting-huron/points-of-interest/museums

"The Pyle House," National Register of Historic Places nomination, December 1974; Mamie Shields Pyle papers and Jane Rooker Breeden papers, Richardson Collection, University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Patricia O’Keefe Easton, “Woman Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade, 1911-1920,” South Dakota History (1983), 215; Mrs. Albert McMahon, “How to Win a State,” The Woman Citizen 3 (November 16, 1918), 508; Gertrude S. Young, Dakota Again (1950), 49.

residence, house museum

lat: 44.362312, long: -98.208788; UTM NAD 1983 Zone 14 X: 563048.167844, Y: 4912418.815098

Brown County

A state convention of the South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association was held at the courthouse in Aberdeen on June 18, 1909. The courthouse was built in 1904 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in June 1976 for its architectural significance.

Alice M.A. Pickler, S.D.E.S.A. president at the time of convention; Lydia B. Johnson, elected S.D.E.S.A. president; Ella S. Stewart, Illinois, main speaker

South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association

State Suffrage Convention program, May 1909, RD06565, Box 1, Correspondence 1909, Jane Rooker Breeden Papers, Richardson Collection, University of South Dakota-Vermillion; Turner County Herald (Hurley SD), June 24, 1909.

Lat: 45.464654; Long: -98.486663; UTM NAD 1983 Zone 14 E: 540131.180082; N: 5034696.975695

Fall River County

Historic Site. In July 1896, national suffrage campaigner, Clara B. Colby, addressed a “fair-sized audience” on equal suffrage from the veranda of the Evans Hotel. In August 1910, while in town with Florence Jeffries to organize a county equal suffrage club, Rose Bower spoke on suffrage at the Evans to a large audience. The large, sandstone Evans Hotel was built in 1892 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as part of the Hot Springs Historic District. It is now used for housing.

South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association

http://www.soakinhotsprings.com/13-evans-hotel/ ; https://sddigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/photos/id/6817/

Lawrence County

In October 1914, Catherine Waugh McCullough spoke on suffrage at the Opera House in Lead. In August 1916, as part of the "flying squadron" campaign tours, Effie McCollum Jones spoke at the Homestake theater and Rose Bower played cornet.

Catherine Waugh McCullough; Effie McCollum Jones; Rose Bower

South Dakota Universal Franchise League

http://www.homestakeoperahouse.org/

Jean McLeod Doughty,  “The Suffrage Movement in Lawrence County,” In Some History of Lawrence County (Deadwood: Lawrence County Historical Society, 1981), 655; Lead Daily Call (SD), August 8-9, 1916.

Arts and culture site; theater

Lake County

Arizona Equal Suffrage Association

marymelcher3@gmail.com

The first RI Woman's Suffrage Convention was held in this hall on December 11, 1868. Paulina Wright Davis elected president. Another meeting of the RIWSA was held in this hall on October 25, 1869.

Paulina Wright Davis and Elizabeth Buffum Chace

Roger William Hall, 98 Westminster St. (building no longer standing)

History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 3 page 340. Manufacturer & Farmer's Journal October 25, 1869

Union Hall was the site of a RI Woman’s Suffrage Association’s meeting on November 1, 1869. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the guest speaker, addressed an audience of nearly 400 people.

Corner of Weybosett and Eddy streets (building no longer standing)

Home of Paulina Wright Davis the first president of the New England Women’s Suffrage Association and editor of the newspaper The Una. The Una was first published in Providence in February 1853. The publication moved to Boston where it continued to be published until October1855.

830 Chalkstone Avenue home of Paulina Wright Davis (home no longer standing)

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore delivered a lecture entitled “The Home at the Ballot Box” along with remarks by Henry B. Blackwell on the evening of March 21, 1887. One of many lectures in Rhode Island on woman suffrage in advance of the women suffrage referenda on April 6, 1887. Rhode Island was the first of the eastern states to submit a woman suffrage referenda to the electorate.

Mrs. Mary A Livermore and Mrs. J. Ellen Foster delivered a lecture “The Home at the Ballot Box” on the evening of March 8, 1887. On April 4th and 5th afternoon and evening mass woman suffrage meetings were held. One of many lectures and mass meetings in Rhode Island on woman suffrage in advance of the women suffrage referenda on April 6, 1887. Rhode Island was the first of the eastern states to submit a woman suffrage referendum to the electorate.

Mary A. Livermore, J. Ellen Foster, Rev. Ada C. Bowles, Wm. Lloyd Garrison Jr., Julia Ward Howe, Henry B. Blackwell and many others

Manufacturer and Farmer's Journal March 7, 1887 and April 4, 1887

Location of the printers Sayles, Miller and Simons, printers of The Una edited by Paulina Wright Davis, The Una, the first women’s newspaper in the nation dedicated to women’s equal rights. Its masthead proudly proclaimed, “A Paper Dedicated to the Elevation of Women”.

Story of A Sub-Pioneer by Sarah M. Algeo, page 75. A Dictionary of Printing, Publishing, Bookselling & Allied Trades in Rhode Island by H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, page 171.

Sayles Hall, Brown University Campus

Sayles Hall on Brown University Campus hosted numerous WSA lectures on woman suffrage including a series of lectures in the mid-1890s under the title “Woman’s Contribution to the Progress of the World. Lectures included Abby Goold Woolson, Mary A. Livermore, Lillie Devereux Blake, Lillie Chace Wyman, Alice Stone Blackwell, Mary F. Eastman, Prof. Katherine Hanscom and the Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer. Also Mrs. Annie Cobden Sanderson of England spoke at Sayles Hall in December 1907 and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt in 1916

Abby Goold Woolson, Mary A. Livermore, Lillie Devereux Blake, Lillie Chace Wyman, Alice Stone Blackwell, Mary F. Eastman, Prof. Katherine Hanscom, Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer, Mrs. Annie Cobden Sanderson and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt

Brown Herald, April 5, 1895, Providence Evening Tribune, December 12, 1907, Evening Tribune February 17 & 18, 1916 and Bristol Phoenix February, 1916. Also The Story of a Sub-Pioneer by Sarah M. Algeo, page 94.

In 1915 Maria Kindberg and Ingeborg Kindstedt were the two women Swedish immigrants that accompanied Sara Bard Field on a cross-country drive from San Francisco to Washington DC. Carrying a petition for Congress and President Wilson signed by 500,000 people favoring women suffrage. Kindberg was the driver and Kindstedt was the mechanic on their historic automotive trip. On May 6, 1916 both women were among five women who incorporated under the name Congressional Union of Providence, Rhode Island. The purpose of the organization as listed by the Secretary of State’s office was to secure an amendment to the United States constitution enfranchising women.

Newseum: Unsung Heroes: Road Trip for Suffrage, see: http://www.newseum.org/2015/03/08/unsung-heroes-road-trip-for-suffrage/

At a meeting of the RI Union of Colored Women's Clubs on October 11, 1913 Sarah Algro, President of the RIWSA, gave a talk entitled “Votes for Women”, followed by open discussion on why the Rhode Island Union of Colored Women Clubs should endorse the suffrage movement. After which the RI Union of Colored Women's Clubs voted to endorse the suffrage cause.

RI Union of Colored Women's Clubs

Providence Evening Tribune, October 14, 1913 and Story of a Sub-Pioneer by Sarah Algeo, pages 164 and 165.

The National Woman’s Suffrage Association sponsored a woman’s suffrage conference at the Academy of Music on August 19 and 20, 1869. In attendance Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ms. Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, etc.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ms. Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, etc.

National Woman's Suffrage Association

Manufacturer and Farmer's Journal, August 16, 23, 26 and 30, 1869.

In 1884 site of Woman’s Suffrage Convention in attendance Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas, Lucy Stone and many others.

Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas, Lucy Stone, etc.

http://www.preservation.ri.gov/about/old_state_house.php

On October 22. 1885 Blackstone Hall was the site of the annual meeting of the RIWSA. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace presided. Addresses were presented in the afternoon and evening.

Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Cora Scott Proud, Mrs. Harriett Shattuck and others

Corner of Washington and Snow street (building no longer standing)

The Rhode Island Pendulum (East Greenwich) October 23, 1885

East Providence

A lecture “Shall the Women of Rhode Island Vote?” given by Mrs. A A. Claflin and Mary F. Hall held in Town Hall, Watchemoket on March 23, 1887.

Broadway (building destroyed by fire in 1976)

The Bell Street Chapel was built and paid for by James Eddy a wealthy philanthropist. His wife bequeathed money on her death to both Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. Bell Street Chapel was the place from which the Rev. Anna Garlin Spenser conducted her ministry. She was a major activist in the suffrage cause in both Rhode Island and New York. She was also the founder of the Rhode Island Woman’s Peace Party. The Bell St. Chapel also hosted the 29th annual meeting of the RIWSA in October 1906.

Elizabeth Buffum Chace, along with Paulina Wright Davis, was co-founder of the RI Woman’s Suffrage Association. She served as this association’s president from 1870 until her death in 1899 at age ninety-two. This home also served as a stop on the underground railroad. Many prominent people in the abolition movement visited her at this home.

Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Lillie Wyman Chace and others

Corner of Hunt and Broad streets (home no longer standing)

Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Her Enviornment by Lille Wyman, Vol. I, page 309 and Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman by Elizabeth C. Stevens pages 56 and 83.

Anti-Slavery Society and underground railroad

Lillie Wyman was the editor of the RIWSA newspaper The Amendment. In 1887 Rhode Island placed a constitutional amendment on the ballot to allow women the right to vote on the same terms as men, The Amendment served as the RIWSA’s official organ to promote this suffrage amendment.

Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman by Elizabeth C. Stevens pages 150-151.

Evening of March 23rd, 1887 Mrs Ex. Gov Wallace of Indiana delivered a talk in favor of the Rhode Island suffrage amendment. One of many lectures in Rhode Island on woman suffrage in advance of the woman suffrage referenda on April 6, 1887.

250 Washington Street, Providence, RI

On Thursday evening March 24th 1887 in the Vestry of the Westminster Congregational Church Mrs. Julia Ward Howe delivered a talk on the pending RI Woman Suffrage Amendment.

Music Hall (building no longer stnding)

Mrs. Ex.Gov. Wallace, mother of Gen. Lew Wallace gave a lecture on “Woman Suffrage” at Music Hall on March 29, 1887.

Susan B. Anthony spoke to the women students of Pembroke College on October 11, 1901 about the differences between woman’s education of today and sixty years ago.

Chapel, Pembroke College (now Brown University)

Opera House (building no longer standing)

On December 7, 1911, noted English militant suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst delivered a suffrage lecture to members of the RI Woman’s Suffrage Association and the College Equal Suffrage League at Providence’s Opera House.

RIWSA and College Equal Suffrage League

Opera House, Dorrance Street at corner of Pine Street

In 1912 the Butler Exchange became the new headquarters of the RIWSA and it remained as such until the passage of the 19th Amendment. The offices continued on as the RI League of Woman Voters.

RIWSA and League of Woman Voters

123 Westminster Street (building no longer standing)

Heardquarters, Newport County Woman Suffrage League

At this site on July 18, 1912 the Newport County Woman Suffrage League opened its new headquarters. The ceremony was disrupted by a German oompah-pah band supposedly paid for by the ‘antis’. The police were called to remove the band. Mrs. Maude Howe Elliot presided and Mrs. Alva Belmont was the guest speaker.

Maude Howe Elliot and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Newport County Woman Suffrage League

Pawtucket Times, July 18, 1912, Newport Daily News July 19, 1912 and Evening Tribune July 19, 1912

Marble House, summer home of Alva Belmont, is where she hosted suffrage lectures on August 24th and 28th, 1909, in attendance were the mayor of Newport and the governor of RI. On July 26, 1914 Marble House host Miss Alice Paul, president of the Congressional Union for Woman’s Suffrage for a meeting to discuss plans for a political campaign to defeat Democratic Congressmen who oppose woman suffrage. On August 29 & 30, 1914 Alva hosted a two-day conference of the National Advisory Council of the National Woman’s Party.

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Julia Ward Howe, Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and others

National Woman Suffrage Association and Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Marble House, Bellevue Avenue, Newport

http://www.newportmansions.org/explore/marble-house

Pawtucket Times August 19 and 25, 1909 and Newport Daily News July 27, 1914

Here in 1901 Susan B. Anthony stayed as a guest while her portrait was painted by Miss Eddy. Sarah J. Eddy was also vice president of the RI Woman’s Suffrage Association and co-founder of the Newport County Woman Suffrage League. Ms. Eddy’s mother was the benefactress of both Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone bequeathing to them a large sum of money upon her death in 1882.

RIWSA and Newport County Woman Suffrage League

567 Bristol Ferry Road, Portsmouth, RI

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper, Vol.3 pages 1241 - 1243.

On April 17, 1917 Governor R. Livingston Beeckman signed a suffrage bill granting RI women the right to vote for President of the United States. Rhode Island becomes the first state to confer on women presidential suffrage alone.

Narragansett Hotel (no longer standing)

National Woman’s Party holds conference on May 18, 1917. Guest speaker Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.

Corner of Weybosset and Dorrance streets

Sarah Helen Whitman is best known as a poetess and the one-time fiancée of Edgar Allen Poe but she was also active in the RI woman’s suffrage movement. Whitman was elected a vice president of the RIWSA at its inalgural meeting in December, 1869. She died in 1878 well before the movement took hold but she should be remembered for her poem “Woman’s Sphere” which contains these lines:
Must she then sit with folded hands and tarry,
Till some fair sybil tell her “whom to marry?”
Better devote her time to ward committees,
To stumping States and canvassing the cities;
Better no more on flimsy fineries dote,
But take the field and claim the right to vote.

Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Her Environment by Lillie Wyman, volume 1, page 311 and website: http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/03/sarah-helen-whitman.html

Sara Algeo served in a number of leadership roles in the woman’s suffrage movement during the early 20th century, most noteworthy as president of the RI Woman Suffrage Association and General Chairman of the Woman’s Suffrage Party. In 1920 she was one of the delegates from the United States to the International Suffrage Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland. She also wrote the most definitive account of the woman suffrage movement in Rhode Island with her book The Story of a Sub-Pioneer. Numerous suffrage guest including Mrs. Pankhurst were guest at her home.

Sara Algeo, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and others

The Story of a Sub-Pioneer by Sara Algeo, pages 48-50 and 175.

Julia Ward Howe was not only the author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” but was president of the Newport County Woman’s Suffrage League until her death in 1910. From this home her daughter Maud Howe Elliot, on July 1, 1916 also president of the Newport County Woman’s Suffrage League hosted a meeting of the League in celebration of suffrage planks in the platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Newport County Woman's Suffrage League

The New England Woman Suffrage Convention was held in the Casino Theatre August 11, 1887. Attending were Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and numerous others.

Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and many others

This church hosted the RIWSA’s annual meeting on May 15, 1900. Again on April 19, 1912 the church was the site of a joint meeting of the RIWSA and the College Equal Suffrage League. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was the guest speaker. Nearly two years later the church was the site for a meeting of the Rhode Island Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage with a lecture by Miss Lucy Price on February 17, 1914.

RIWSA, College Equal Suffrage League, National American Suffrage Association

Pawtucket Times, May 16, 1900, Bristol Phoenix April 9, 1912 and Evening Tribune February 17 and 18, 1914

Library Hall (building no longer standing)

More than 400 members of the Woman’s Suffrage Party from across the state met at Library Hall on the evening of February 17, 1914. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Saah Algeo; guest speakers were Mrs. Carl Barus and Mrs. Jerome Fitz. This meeting was counterbalanced by an “anti” meeting across town the same evening by the Rhode Island Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

Sara Algeo, Mrs. Carl Barus and Mrs. Jerome Fitz

Members of the RI Woman’s Suffrage Party celebrated Women’s Independence Day, May 2, 1914, with an all-day celebration at Roger Williams Park including a lecture at the Park Casino by Rabbi Dr. Stephen Wise of New York entitled “Call of Democracy”.

Rabbi Dr. Stephen Wise and Elizabeth Upham Yates

Roger William Park, 1000 Elmwood Avenue

Evening Tribune May 3, 1914 and The Story of a Sub-Pioneer by Sara M. Algeo, pages 190, 198, 200-201

On January 20, 1915 the Bristol County Equal Suffrage League hosted a talk entitled “Woman’s Real Self” by Mrs. Dexter Thurber, newly elected vice president of the league.

Bristol County Equal Suffrage League

At this inn about 150 women heard a talk by Mrs. Jerome M. Fitts of the RIWSA. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Bristol County Equal Suffrage League on September 13, 1915. Mrs. Fitts spoke on the principles of equal suffrage and the work in general throughout the country.

Mrs. Jerome Fitts, Mrs. Dexter Thurber, Mrs. LeBaron C. Colt and others

Bristol County Equal Suffrage League

On November 15, 1913 Mrs. Pankhurst made a second visit to Rhode Island and spoke at Infantry Hall in Providence under the auspices of the RIWSA

Evening Tribune, November 15, 1913 and The Story of a Sub-Pioneer by Sara M. Algeo, pages 170 - 173.

South Kingstown

The RIWSA held a meeting on the evening of March 9, 1887 to discuss support for the RI suffrage amendment to be submitted to voters in April. Rev. Ada C. Bowles and Henry B. Blackwell spoke.

Rev. Ada C. Bowles and Henry B. Blackwell

South Kingstown

Site of the founding of the Wakefield Woman’s Suffrage League on November 13, 1888. The meeting was presided by Mr. John A. Brown. Mrs. E J. Smith delivered an talk addressing the arguments used by opponents of woman suffrage.

RIWSA and Wakefield Woman's Suffrage League

42 Columbia Street - rear (Wakefield)

North Kingstown

An Equal Suffrage rally was held on November 14, 1916 at the Odd Fellows’ Hall. Speakers included Mrs. Agnes Jenks, president of the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association, Miss Elizabeth Yates, Honorary President and Miss Mable Orgelman, State Organizer. The rally was accompanied with music provided by Clark’s Orchestra.

East Greenwich

On January 14, 1878 Mrs. Margaret Campbell delivered a lecture on woman’s suffrage.

East Greenwich

A meeting was held on March 9, 1887 in the Chapel of the Baptist church to organize a Woman’s Suffrage Association. Elected as president was Mrs. S.H. Day, 1st vice president Mrs. Thomas Chace, 2nd vice president Mrs. S.W.K. Allen and 3rd vice president Mrs. William H. Taylor. Also in this church on March 19, 1891 at the meeting of the Kent County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in East Greenwich Miss Elizabeth Yates, a leading suffragist from Maine, delivered a suffrage address “Woman’s Sphere”.

Mrs. S.W.K. Allen, Mrs. William H. Taylor. and Miss Elizabeth Yates,

RIWSA and Kent County Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Corner of Peirce and Montrose streets

The Manufacturer and Farmer's Journal, March 10, 1887, the Rhode Island Pendulum, March 11, 1887 and the Wickford Standard, March 21, 1891

East Greenwich

On March 24, 1887 a woman’s suffrage meeting was held in the new town hall. An address was read by William Lloyd Garrison Jr. followed by Mrs. Ex-governor Wallace of Indiana. One-week latter on March 31st Mrs. Ellen Forster of Iowa addressed a standing room only audience in town hall. The title of her address was “The Enfranchisement of Women”.

William Lloyd Garrison Jr. and Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Ellen Forster

On June 14, 1869 Armory Hall was the site of a Woman’s Suffrage Convention. Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, President of the RIWSA, presided.

Manufacturer and Farmer's Journal June 14, 1869 and Providence Evening Press, June 14, 1869

In July 1915, Sarah B. Cochran opened her home (Linden Hall) to host a suffrage tea/rally fundraiser that featured Dr. Anna Howard Shaw as its speaker; an estimated 500 or 600 men and women attended, each paying $1 each to benefit Fayette County Woman Suffrage Party. The meeting was called to order with a potato masher so people would understand that suffragists were still domestic.

Sarah B. Cochran (owner of Linden Hall), Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (speaker at tea/rally)

Fayette County Woman Suffrage Party at 1915 event

For suffrage rally: “Open Fayette County Campaign,” The Pittsburgh Post, 30 July 1915, page 9, column 3 and “Stirring Rally for Suffrage in Fayette,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (The Gazette Times), 30 July 1915, page 7; Linden Hall’s National Register of Historic Places application document: http://www.dot7.state.pa.us/CRGIS_Attachments/SiteResource/H096396_01H.pdf; General information: the National Women’s History Museum bio of Sarah B. Cochran that I wrote is available with resources at https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sarah-cochran and my guest blog post for the Women’s Museum of California is at https://womensmuseum.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/the-coal-queen-you-need-to-know-now/