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

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

Groups

• Arden Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1912.
• Congressional Union (CU).
• Delaware Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), formed in 1895.
• Delaware Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.
• Equal Suffrage Study Club.
• New Castle Equal Suffrage Association.
• Newport Equal Suffrage Association.
• National Women's Party (NWP).
• Wilmington Equal Suffrage Club (or Association), formed in 1895.
• Wilmington Equal Suffrage Suffrage Study Club (WESSC).
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Delaware.

Suffragists

• Helen Wormley Anderson .
• Annie Arniel (Wilmington).
• Rachel Foster Avery (Wilmington).
• Anna Cootsman Bach.
• Alice Gertrude Baldwin (Wilmington).
• Ida Perkins Ball.
• Mary Richardson Bancroft.
• Naomi Barrett (Wilmington).
• Catherine Boyle (New Castle).
• Mary Clare Brassington.
• Mary E. Brown (Wilmington).
• Eleanor Morris Burnet.
• Emma Jester Burnett.
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Wilmington).
• Martha Churchman Cranston.
• Mary R. De Vou (Wilmington).
• Mabel F. Donahoe.
• Bessie Spence Dorrell.
• Agnes Y. Downey (Wilmington).
• Rose Lippincott Hizar Duggin.
• Josephine Anderson du Pont.
• Mary Seward Pillips Eskridge.
• Sallie Topkis Ginns (Wilmington).
• Susie Estella Palmer Hamilton.
• Rosewell Hammond.
• Florence Hilles (New Castle).
• Robert G. Houston (Georgetown).
• Margaret W. Houston.
• Caroline Taylor Hughes.
• Ella W. Johnson.
• Etta Gray Jones (Bridgeville).
• Margaret Harrigon Kent.
• Marie T. Lockwood (Middletown).
• Emma Maria Lore (Wilmington).
• Annie J. Magee (Wilmington).
• Mary H. Askew Mather.
• Mary E. Marchand Milligan.

  

• Winifred Morris.
• Anna Fisher Morse.
• Alice Dunbar Nelson (Wilmington).
• Nellie B. Nicholson (Wilmington).
• Gertrude Fulton Nields.
• Mary Ospina (Wilmington).
• Jane White Pennewill.
• Mary Price Phillips.
• Adelina Piunti (New Castle).
• Mabel Lloyd Ridgely (Dover).
• Eva Halpern Robin.
• Elizabeth G. Robinson.
• Willabelle Shurter.
• Frank Stephens (Arden).
• Mary Ann Sorden Stuart (Greenwood).
• Blanche Williams Stubbs (Wilmington).
• Emma Gibson Sykes (Wilmington).
• Mabel Vernon (Wilmington).
• Elizabeth Walling.
• Emalea Pusey Warner.
• Sadie Monroe Waters (Greenwood).
• Anna Beauchamp Reynolds Wedler.
• Caroline B. Williams (Wilmington).
• Mary J. Johnson Woodlen (Wilmington).
• Emma Worrell.

Politicians in support of women's suffrage

• T. Coleman du Pont.
• John G. Townsend, Jr.

Places

• Hotel DuPont (Wilmington).
• New Castle County Courthouse (New Castle).

Suffragists who campaigned in Delaware

• Lida Stokes Adams.
• Lucy E. Anthony.
• Susan B. Anthony.
• Mary C. C. Bradford.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Mary Ware Dennett.
• Susan S. Fessenden.
• Helen Hoy Greeley.
• Laura A. Gregg.
• Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale.
• Florence Jaffray Harriman.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Elsie Hill.
• Diana Hirschler.
• Anna Maxwell Jones.
• Rosalie Jones.
• Belva Lockwood.
• Maria McMahon.
• Harriet May Mills.
• Henrietta G. Moore.
• Emmeline Pankhurst.
• Maud Wood Park.
• Jeannette Rankin.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Mary Church Terrell.
• Lola Trax.
• Harriet Taylor Upton.
• Narcissa Cox Vanderlip.
• Mary Heald Way.
• Mary Winsor.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Delaware Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (DAOWS), formed in 1914.

People

• Elizabeth du Pont Bayard.
• Amy du Pont.
• Emily Bissell (Wilmington).
• May du Pont Saulsbury.
• Mary Wilson Thompson (Greenville).

Politicians

• Henry P. Scott.

See also

• List of American suffragists
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Delaware
• Women's suffrage in Delaware
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. ^ Harper 1922, p. 89.
2. ^ Boylan, Anne M. (Summer 2019). "Delaware Women's Suffrage Timeline" (PDF). Delaware Historical Society. League of Women Voters. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
3. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 564.
4. Hoffecker 1983, p. 150.
5. ^ Stopyra, Diane (17 August 2020). "African American suffragists". UDaily. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
6. ^ Harper 1922, p. 86.
7. "Delaware and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
8. ^ Boylan, Anne M. (September 2019). "Delaware Suffrage Leaders" (PDF). Women's Vote Delaware. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
9. ^ "Suffragists in Delaware". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
10. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 563.
11. Cantoran-Torres, Veronica; Miles, Cameron. "Biographical Sketch of Mary E. Brown". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
12. Boylan 2020, p. 22.
13. ^ Harper 1922, p. 91.
14. Harper 1922, p. 98-99.
15. Bramhall, Sue (17 March 2020). "Local suffragists deserve recognition and thanks". Cape Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
16. "The Suffrage Shebang: Middletown and Women's Suffrage -". Middletown, Delaware History. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
17. Turrell, Kate. "Biographical Sketch of Emma Maria Lore". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
18. DiMarco, Gabriella; Shields, Maeve. "Biographical Sketch of Annie J. Magee [or McGee]". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
19. ^ Englehart, Lora Bilton (2020-07-24). "We Look Back at Delaware's Integral Role in the Fight for Women's Voting Rights". Delaware Today. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
20. Boylan, Anne M. "Biographical Sketch of Mary A. Ospina". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
21. Hall, Colleen. "Biographical Sketch of Adelina Piunti (DiSabatino)". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
22. ^ Harper 1922, p. 88.
23. Boylan, Anne M. (20 October 2020). "Bridgeville's Sadie Waters and the 19th Amendment". Cape Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
24. ^ Harper 1922, p. 92.
25. Hoffecker 1983, p. 155.
26. ^ Harper 1922, p. 87.
27. ^ Harper 1922, p. 90.
28. ^ "The Anti-suffragists". Votes for Delaware Women. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Boylan, Anne M. (2020). "Delaware Suffragist Biographies" (PDF). Women's Vote.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Hoffecker, Carol E. (Spring 1983). "Delaware's Woman Suffrage Campaign" (PDF). Delaware History. 20 (3): 149–167.

External links

• Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to Mary R. de Vou
• Votes for Delaware Women: A Centennial Exhibition (online exhibition) at Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press

• American women's rights activists
• Lists of American women
• Delaware history-related lists
• Lists of people from Delaware
• Suffragists from Delaware
• Delaware politics-related lists