This is a list of Massachusetts suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Massachusetts.
Jane Kelley Adams (1852–1924) — educator; chair of the Woburn, Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League.[ 3]
Sarah Louise Arnold (1859–1943) – Massachusetts suffragist; first dean of Simmons College; national president, Girl Scouts of the USA .[ 4]
Mary Alderson Chandler Atherton (1849–1934), educator, author, publisher; member of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association .[ 1]
Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858–1923) – educator, lecturer, author; chair, Moral Education Department, Boston Equal Suffrage Association .[ 5]
Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist.[ 6]
Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915) – president, Woburn (Massachusetts) Equal Suffrage League; State lecturer, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.[ 7]
Sarah Stoddard Eddy (1831–1904) – social reformer, clubwoman.[ 8]
Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.[ 9]
Martha Seavey Hoyt (1844–1915) – biographer, newspaper correspondent, and businesswoman; member, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association .[ 10]
Rachel Harris Johnson (1887–1983)- member of the Worcester Equal Franchise Club.[ 2]
Suffragists who campaigned in Massachusetts [ edit ]
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^ a b Cook, Lisa Connelly (2000). "Johnson, Rachel Harris" . American Biography Online . doi :10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2001554 . Retrieved 21 August 2024 .
^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History . Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. Retrieved 26 October 2022 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
^ "Sarah Louise Arnold: The Suffragist Dean" . Simmons University Archives . Simmons University. Retrieved 30 July 2024 .
^ "CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. XVII. CLARA BANCROFT BEATLEY" . The Unitarian . 3 (2). T.F. Pruett: 387–89. 1908. Retrieved 30 July 2024 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
^ Hoxie, Elizabeth F. (1971). "Collins, Jennie" . In James, Edward T. (ed.). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2 . Harvard University Press . pp. 362–363. ISBN 9780674627345 .
^ This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "Martha e. Sewall Curtis". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 222.
^ Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson (1883). Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774, to 1881 . Roberts Brothers. p. 261. Retrieved 15 April 2022 .
^ "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968" . Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America . Retrieved 7 August 2024 .
^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). "MARTHA SEAVEY HOYT". Sketches of Representative Women of New England . New England Historical Publishing Company. pp. 251–53. Retrieved 11 January 2024 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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