List of Maine suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2020)

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## Groups[edit]

25th Annual Convention for the Maine Woman Suffrage Association, October 1905

* Bangor Suffrage Center[1]
* Belfast Suffrage League, formed in 1916[2]
* College Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1913[3]
* Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and later, National Woman's Party[4]
* Cumberland County Convention of Reformed Men[5]
* Equal Rights Association of Rockland, formed in 1868[6]
* Farmington Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1906[7]
* Maine Federation of Women's Clubs (MFWC)[8]
* Maine Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1873[9]
* The Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1914[10]
* Portland Equal Franchise League[11]
* Woman Suffrage Association of Portland[12]
* Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), first Maine chapter formed in 1874[13]

## Suffragists[edit]

Essie Carle, c. 1920

* Sophia P. Anthoine (Portland)[14][15]
* Jane Sophia Appleton (Bangor)[16][17]
* Hannah Johnston Bailey (Winthrop)[18]
* Katherine Reed Balentine (Portland)[19]
* Camille Lessard Bissonnette (Lewiston)[20]
* Henry Blanchard (Portland)[9]
* Ralph O. Brewster[3]
* Margaret W. Campbell (Hancock County)[21]
* Essie P. Carle (Belfast)[22]
* Sarah G. Crosby (Albion)[23]
* Lucy Hobart Day[24]
* Lydia Neal Dennett (Portland)[25]
* Adelaide Emerson (Ellsworth)[23]Woman Citizen
* Fannie J. Fernald (Old Orchard)[26][7]
* Jennie Fuller (Hartland)[11]
* Abby F. Fulton[7]
* Obadiah Gardner (Augusta)[11]
* Ann F. Jarvis Greely (Ellsworth)[27]
* Isabel Greenwood (Farmington)[28]
* Ira G. Hersey (Houlton)[28]
* Charlotte Hill (Ellsworth)[27]
* Augusta Merrill Hunt (Portland)[14]
* Benjamin Kingsbury (Portland)[29]
* Deborah Knox Livingston (Bangor)[30]
* Clara Hapgood Nash[31]
* John Neal (Portland)[32]
* Joshua Nye (Augusta)[29]
* Sarah Jane Lincoln O'Brion (Cornish)[33]
* Maud Wood Park (Cape Elizabeth)[30]
* Leonard A. Pierce (Portland)[11]
* Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (Penobscot) (Indian Island)[20]
* Louise Johnson Pratt (Belfast)[2]
* Cordelia A. Quinby (Augusta)[7]
* Olive Rose (Warren)[34]
* Leslie R. Rounds[3]
* Lavinia Snow (Rockland)[27]
* Lucy Snow (Rockland)[27]
* Sophronia Snow (Hampden)[33]
* Jane H. Spofford (Hampden)[33]
* Lillian M. N. Stevens (Portland)[18]
* Zenas Thompson (Portland)[11]
* Rebecca Usher (Hollis)[33]
* L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace[3][35]
* Florence Brooks Whitehouse (Augusta)[36]
* Robert Treat Whitehouse[3]
* William Penn Whitehouse (Augusta)[11]
* Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten[37]
* Elizabeth Upham Yates[7]

### Politicians supporting women's suffrage in Maine[edit]

* Carl E. Milliken[38]

## Suffragists who campaigned in Maine[edit]

* Susan B. Anthony[39]
* Abby Scott Baker[40]
* Henry B. Blackwell[9]
* Carrie Chapman Catt[26]
* Elizabeth Glendower Evans[14]
* Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale[41]
* Diana Hirschler[24]
* Julia Ward Howe[34]
* Augusta Hughston[3]
* Florence Kelley[42]
* Gail Laughlin[36]
* Dora Lewis[38]
* Mary Livermore[9]
* Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell[43][2]
* Maud Wood Park[14]
* Nancy M. Schoonmaker[44]
* Anna Howard Shaw[9]
* Lucy Stone[9]
* Mary Winsor[40]

## Anti-suffragists[edit]

Groups

* Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, formed in 1913[28][10]

People

* Harriet Bird (Yarmouth)[28]
* Sophia C. Brackett (Portland)[45]
* Susannah Bundy Brown (Portland)[46]
* Lucy Cobb (Rockland)[2]
* Margaret L. Dalton (Portland)[46]
* C. T. Ogden (Deering)[47]
* Sewall C. Strout (Portland)[47]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Toothman, Delania. "Biographical Sketch of Deborah Knox Livingston". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 - via Alexander Street.
2. ^ a b c d O'Brien, Andy (17 January 2019). "They Petitioned, They Protested, They Went to Jail & They Won". The Free Press. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
3. ^ a b c d e f Harper 1922, p. 237.
4. ^ "Florence Brooks Whitehouse". ACLU of Maine. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
5. ^ Risk 2009, p. 101.
6. ^ O'Brien, Andy (3 January 2019). "When Maine Suffragists Fought for Their Right to Vote". The Free Press. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
7. ^ a b c d e "The Maine Woman Suffrage Association". Maine State Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
8. ^ Harper 1922, p. 240.
9. ^ a b c d e f Anthony 1902, p. 689.
10. ^ a b "Maine and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
11. ^ a b c d e f Harper 1922, p. 247.
12. ^ Risk 2009, p. 162.
13. ^ Risk 2009, p. 65.
14. ^ a b c d Harper 1922, p. 238.
15. ^ Neises, Amy. "Biographical Sketch of Sara P. Anthoine". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 - via Alexander Street.
16. ^ Risk 2009, p. 87.
17. ^ Neises, Amy R. "Biographical Sketch of Jane Sophia Appleton". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Alexander Street. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
18. ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 4.
19. ^ Maine State Museum 2019, p. 9.
20. ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 10.
21. ^ O'Brien, Andy (10 January 2019). "Maine Women Continue the Fight for Voting Rights & Fair Treatment". The Free Press. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
22. ^ "Rush to Register". Maine State Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
23. ^ a b Risk 2009, p. 92.
24. ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 690.
25. ^ Risk 2009, p. 88.
26. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 236.
27. ^ a b c d Maine State Museum 2019, p. 3.
28. ^ a b c d Maine State Museum 2019, p. 6.
29. ^ a b Day, Lucy H.; Bates, Helen N.; Anthoine, Sara P. (2018). "Historical Sketch of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association". League of Women Voters Mrs Wing's Scrapbook. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
30. ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 8.
31. ^ Maine State Museum 2019, p. 5.
32. ^ Risk 2009, p. 70.
33. ^ a b c d Maine State Museum 2019, p. 2.
34. ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 1.
35. ^ Assogba, Anna. "Biographical Sketch of L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 - via Alexander Street.
36. ^ a b Maine State Museum 2019, p. 7.
37. ^ Hough, Mazie. "Biographical Sketch of Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 - via Alexander Street.
38. ^ a b Gass 2011, p. 55.
39. ^ "Connecting Ellsworth and the Nation". Maine State Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
40. ^ a b Gass 2011, p. 49.
41. ^ Spiker 2012, p. 22.
42. ^ Gass 2011, p. 42.
43. ^ De Sa e Silva, Pascale; O'Neill, Nora. "Biographical Sketch of Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 - via Alexander Street.
44. ^ Harper 1922, p. 245.
45. ^ Risk 2009, p. 131.
46. ^ a b Risk 2009, p. 130.
47. ^ a b Risk 2009, p. 129.

## See also[edit]

* Timeline of women's suffrage in Maine
* Women's suffrage in Maine
* Women's suffrage in states of the United States
* Women's suffrage in the United States

### Sources[edit]

* Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4\. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
* Gass, Anne (October 2011). "Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Vote to Ratify Women's Suffrage in 1919". Maine History. 46 (1): 38–66.
* Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
* Maine State Museum (2019). "Maine Suffrage Who's Who" (PDF). Women's Long Road.
* Risk, Shannon M. (2009). 'In Order to Establish Justice': The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movements of Maine and New Brunswick (Thesis). University of Maine. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.428.3747.
* Spiker, LaRue (2012). "Women Got the Vote Fifty Years Ago" (PDF). Chebacco. 13: 21–27.