List of Massachusetts suffragists

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

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## Groups

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* Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.[1]

## Suffragists

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* Jane Kelley Adams (1852–1924) — educator; chair of the Woburn, Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League.[2]
* Sarah Louise Arnold (1859–1943) – Massachusetts suffragist; first dean of Simmons College; national president, Girl Scouts of the USA.[3]
* 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.[4]
* Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist.[5]
* Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915) – president, Woburn (Massachusetts) Equal Suffrage League; State lecturer, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.[6]
* Sarah Stoddard Eddy (1831–1904) – social reformer, clubwoman.[7]
* Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.[8]
* Martha Seavey Hoyt (1844–1915) – biographer, newspaper correspondent, and businesswoman; member, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.[9]

## See also

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* List of American suffragists

## References

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1. ^ a b "ATHERTON, Mary Alderson Chandler". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XVIII. J.T. White. 1922. pp. 351–52. Retrieved 31 August 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ "Sarah Louise Arnold: The Suffragist Dean". Simmons University Archives. Simmons University. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
4. ^ "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.
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ 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.
7. ^ 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.
8. ^ "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.
9. ^ 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.