The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV

The most conspicuous and significant movement which challenges attention at the beginning of the new century is that toward organization, and the three great combinations which...

The New England Woman Suffrage Association was formed at Boston in November, 1868, with Mrs. Julia Ward Howe as president; and the Massachusetts Association was organized in the...

The Thirty-second annual convention of the suffrage association, held in Washington, D. C., Feb. 8-14, 1900, possessed two features of unusual interest--it closed the century an...

The Thirtieth annual convention of the suffrage association took place in the Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C., Feb. 13-19, 1898, and celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of t...

The State of New York, home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, may be justly described as the great battle-ground for the rights of women, a title which will not be...

Although the Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage had reported several times in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution which should prohibit disfranchis...

_1884._--The American Woman Suffrage Association which was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in November, 1869, held its sixteenth annual meeting, November 19, 20, at Hershey Hall,...

A departure was made by the suffrage association in 1899 in having its convention in the late spring instead of the winter, the Thirty-first annual meeting being held in Grand R...

Both Senate and House of the preceding Congress had appointed Select Committees on Woman Suffrage to whom all petitions, etc., were referred.[20] The Senate of the Forty-eighth...

The first woman suffrage meeting on the Pacific Coast was held in San Francisco in May, 1869, and a State association was formed in January, 1870. From that date meetings were h...

The first Woman's Rights Association was organized in Kansas in the spring of 1859, by a little coterie of twenty-five men and women, with the object of securing suffrage for wo...

After the campaign of 1877, when a woman suffrage amendment was defeated in Colorado, the first really important step forward was the organization at Denver, in 1890, of a littl...

The chapter on Great Britain contributed by Miss Caroline Ashurst Biggs to Vol. III of this History of Woman Suffrage brought the story down to the passage of the Representation...

It had been known for some time before the suffrage convention of Feb. 8-14, 1900, that Miss Anthony intended to resign the presidency of the national association at that time,...

The year 1888 is distinguished for the largest and most representative woman's convention held up to that time--the International Council of Women, which met in Washington, D. C...

At the close of the Twenty-fifth annual meeting the Washington _Evening News_ said: "There will be an exodus from Washington during the next three days--an exodus of some of the...

The Twenty-fourth annual woman suffrage convention, held in the Church of Our Father, Washington, D. C., Jan. 17-21, 1892, was preceded by the usual services at three o'clock on...

The suffrage association held its Twenty-eighth annual convention in the Church of Our Father, Washington, D. C., Jan. 23-28, 1896. In her opening remarks the president, Miss Su...

This year the suffrage association took its convention west of the Mississippi River, the Twenty-ninth annual meeting being held in Des Moines, Ia., Jan. 26-29, 1897. Circumstan...

It is said that a contented people or a happy life is one without a history. The cause of woman suffrage in Wyoming has not been marked by agitation or strife, and for that reas...

The winter of 1890 brought the usual crowd of eminent women to Washington to attend the Twenty-second national convention of the suffrage association, February 18-21. As the pre...

To write the history of woman suffrage in Utah one must turn backward to 1870, when the Legislature of the Territory passed a bill conferring the franchise upon women, to which...

The Territory of Dakota was created in 1861, but in 1889 it entered the Union divided into two separate States, North and South Dakota. As early as 1872 the Territorial Legislat...

The first Woman's Rights Convention on record was held in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in July, 1848; the second in Salem, O., in April, 1850; the third in Worcester, Mass., in October,...

The Eighteenth national convention met in the Church of Our Father, Washington, D. C., Feb. 17-19, 1886, presided over by Miss Susan B. Anthony, vice-president-at-large, with tw...

The Twenty-seventh annual convention--Jan. 31-Feb. 5, 1895--possessed an unusual interest because of its being held outside of Washington. The American society had been accustom...

The Seventeenth of the national conventions was held in Lincoln Hall, Washington, D. C., Jan. 20-22, 1885, preceded by the usual brilliant reception, which was extended by Mr. a...

Neither among politicians, nor among women themselves, is this in any sense a party movement. While the Prohibition party in Kansas incorporated woman suffrage in its platform,...

The Call for the Twenty-sixth annual convention contained this paragraph of hope and joy: "The Government's recognition of women on the Board of Managers for the World's Columbi...

From the time of the defeat of the suffrage amendment to the State constitution in 1874 there was no central organization in Michigan for ten years, although a few local societi...

The chapters thus far have given some idea of the endeavor to secure the ballot for women through national suffrage conventions, which bring together delegates from all parts of...

Rhode Island was one of the pioneer States to form a woman suffrage association. On Dec. 11, 1868, in answer to a call signed by a large number of its most distinguished men and...

The Illinois Equal Suffrage Association has had only four presidents in the past sixteen years. Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert retired from this office at the annual meeting of...

The Nineteenth national convention assembled in the M. E. Metropolitan Church of Washington, Jan. 25, 1887, continuing in session three days. On no evening was the building larg...

The preceding chapters have been devoted principally to efforts made in behalf of women by the National-American Suffrage Association through its conventions, committees, office...

Although many local suffrage meetings had been held in New Jersey prior to 1867, in that year a State Society was organized by Lucy Stone, which met regularly in various cities...

The earliest woman suffrage society in Indiana was formed in Dublin only three years after that first memorable convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848, and annual meetings w...

In the early days of the movement to enfranchise women, no other method was considered than that of altering the constitution of each individual State, as it was generally accep...

In October, 1886, the Association for the Advancement of Women held its annual congress in Louisville, and for the first time woman suffrage was admitted to a place on the progr...

The history of woman suffrage in Washington begins with the passage of a bill by the Legislature, giving women the full rights of the ballot on the same terms as men, which was...

The history of woman suffrage in Louisiana must center always about the names of Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon and Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick. In 1879, before there had been any gener...

Immediately preceding the Twenty-third annual suffrage convention in 1891, the first triennial meeting took place of the National Council of Women, which had been formed in 1888...

The first agitation of the question of woman suffrage in Minnesota, and the first petitions to the Legislature to grant it, began immediately after the Civil War, through the ef...

For thirty years the women of Iowa have been petitioning its legislative body for the elective franchise. Any proposed amendment to the State constitution must pass two successi...

Idaho was admitted into the Union as a State in 1890. Previous to this time there had been practically no work done for woman suffrage in the Territory except that of Mrs. Abiga...

As a Territory Wisconsin interested herself in equal rights. In the first Constitutional Convention universal suffrage regardless of sex or color had a considerable vote. In the...

The second Woman's Rights Convention ever held took place at Salem, Ohio, in April, 1850, and such meetings were continued at intervals until the beginning of the Civil War. Aft...

The thought of woman suffrage in Pennsylvania always brings with it the recollection of Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia, one of the four women who called the first Woman's Rights...

The women of the District of Columbia who desire the suffrage have a unique place among those of other localities. As the franchise for men even is not included in the privilege...

The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was organized in September, 1869, after a memorable two days' convention in Hartford, under the call and management of Mrs. Isabella B...

After the defeat of the constitutional amendment to confer the suffrage, which was submitted to the voters of Nebraska in 1882, the women were not discouraged, but continued to...

The first woman suffrage association of Georgia was organized in July, 1890, by Miss H. Augusta Howard and her sister, Miss Claudia Hope Howard (Maxwell). For some time the memb...

After the defeat of the woman suffrage amendment in 1884 no organized effort was made for ten years, although quiet educational work was done. On the Fourth of July, 1894, a mee...

In 1884 the idea of an organization devoted exclusively to the advancement of the "woman's cause" in Mississippi had not assumed tangible form, granting that even the audacious...

Much credit is due to the New England Woman Suffrage Association for the life and efficiency of the Vermont society. In 1883 this organization secured the services of Mrs. Hanna...

If but one State in the Union allowed woman to represent herself it should be Maryland, which was named for a woman, whose capital was named for a woman, and where in 1647 Mistr...

In August, 1883, Miss Frances E. Willard, national president, came to Montana and formed a Territorial Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Butte. At this time Miss Willard in...

The movement toward equal suffrage in Missouri must always recognize as its founder Mrs. Virginia L. Minor. She was a thorough believer in the right of woman to the franchise, a...

The Maine Woman Suffrage Association entered upon its career in 1873, flourished until 1876 and then ceased active work, which was not resumed until 1885. In September of that y...

Oklahoma Territory was opened to settlement April 22, 1889, and its first woman's organization was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, founded in Guthrie, March 10, 1890, by...

The Territory having elected delegates to a convention to be held in Phoenix in August and September, 1891, to prepare a constitution for Statehood, Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy...

No organized work for woman suffrage had been done in Tennessee up to 1885, when Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon was appointed president of the State by the National Association. In 1...

In 1867 Samuel Young introduced into the Senate of West Virginia a bill to confer the suffrage on educated, taxpaying women, but it found no advocates except himself. In 1869 he...

The question of equal political rights for women always has been a subject of discussion in Nevada. Through the efforts of Miss Hannah K. Clapp and a few other women a suffrage...

Actual work for woman suffrage in Alabama began in 1890, at the time the constitutional convention of Mississippi was in session. The editor of the New Decatur _Advertiser_ open...

New Hampshire has been rich in distinguished citizens who believed in woman suffrage. Ex-United States Senator Henry W. Blair always has been one of its most devoted advocates,...

The first addresses in favor of woman suffrage in Texas are believed to have been given by Mrs. Mariana T. Folsom in 1885. The first attempt at organization was made on May 10,...

In most of the countries of the world women possess some form of suffrage, but for many reasons it is almost impossible to define exactly in what it consists. Like suffrage for...

At the Constitutional Convention held in 1888 an effort was made to secure equal political rights for women, but it received little support. In September, 1893, Mrs. E. M. Marbl...

In the campaign of 1884 the Republicans had a Ship of State called the New Constitution, with an eagle on the top, which was mounted on wheels and taken from place to place wher...

The brief history of work in Florida for the enfranchisement of women gathers about the name of Mrs. Ella C. Chamberlain. She returned to her home in Tampa from attendance on th...

In 1890 Mrs. Virginia Durant Young being on a visit to Mrs. Adelaide Viola Neblett at Greenville, these two did so inspire each other that then and there they held a suffrage co...

The only attempt at suffrage organization in North Carolina was made by Miss Helen Morris Lewis, Nov. 21, 1894. A meeting was called at the court house in Asheville and attended...

In 1885 the first woman suffrage association in Arkansas was formed at Eureka Springs by Miss Phoebe W. Couzins and Mrs. Lizzie D. Fyler, who was made president. Miss Susan B. A...

As early as 1870 and 1871 Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage of New York and Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis of Rhode Island lectured on woman suffrage in Richmond. There...

Joint Resolution for Sixteenth Amendment extending Right of Suffrage to Women -- Able speech of Henry W. Blair; Government founded on equality of rights, no connection between t...

Household suffrage for men proves a disadvantage to women -- Primrose League and Liberal Federation -- Women in politics -- Vote on Suffrage Bill in 1886 -- _Nineteenth Century_...

Annual meeting of 1884 in Chicago -- Lucy Stone's account in _Woman's Journal_ -- Work in the South -- Resolutions and plan of work -- Memorial service for Wendell Phillips, Fra...

Fiftieth Anniversary of First Woman's Rights Convention -- Chief obstacle to organization is women themselves -- Gains of half-a-century -- Miss Anthony's birthday luncheon -- M...

First societies on record -- Progress by decades -- Women's club houses -- Changed status of women's conventions -- List of National Associations -- Evolution of their objects -...

Woman suffrage editorial in Washington _Post_ -- Large number of young college women present -- Miss Anthony's last opening address as President -- Miss Shaw tells joke on her a...

Excellent arrangements at Grand Rapids -- Welcome from women's organizations -- Miss Anthony's response; counting negro men and refusing them representation no worse than counti...

Debate in the House on a Special Woman Suffrage Committee -- Extracts from speeches of John H. Reagan on Awful Effects of Woman Suffrage -- James B. Belford on Woman's Right to...

Discussion on Sunday opening of Columbian Exposition -- Last appearance of Mrs. Stanton at a national convention after an attendance of forty years -- Miss Anthony elected Presi...

Mrs. Stanton addresses Senate Committee; the South has not treated negro men more unjustly than the North has treated all women, women never can fully respect themselves or be r...

Origin of the Council -- Call issued by National Suffrage Association -- Official statistics of this great meeting -- Eloquent sermon of the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw on the Heavenl...

Interesting picture of convention in _Woman's Journal_ -- Miss Anthony describes forty years' wandering in the wilderness -- Colorado women present her with flag -- She declares...

Miss Anthony's determination to resign the presidency -- Her address to the convention -- Affecting scene at the election of Carrie Chapman Catt -- Her acceptance -- Press notic...

Washington _Evening News_ pays a compliment to the Association -- Memorial service for George William Curtis, John G. Whittier and others -- Frederick Douglass speaks of other d...

The Rev. Miss Shaw's account of Miss Anthony's and her trip to the Pacific Coast -- Philosophy of Woman Suffrage -- Universal not Limited Suffrage -- Memorial service for Freder...

Annual meeting in Des Moines welcomed by the Governor, the Mayor, the Rev. H. O. Breeden and others -- Miss Anthony in her president's address describes campaigns the previous y...

Relation of the Woman Suffrage Movement to the Labor Question -- Take Down the Barriers -- German and American Independence Contrasted -- Resolution condemning Creeds and Dogmas...

Official Call shows non-partisan character of the demand for Woman Suffrage -- Senator Blair makes clear presentation of woman's right to vote for Representatives in Congress un...

Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony make first appeal to political conventions in 1868 -- Faint recognition of National Republican Convention in 1872, 1876, 1888, 1892, 1896 -- No Dem...

Triennial meeting of National Council -- Hail to Wyoming! -- Mrs. Stanton on the Degradation of Disfranchisement; women suffer from the disgrace just as men would, State, Church...

First place in the United States to enfranchise women -- Territorial Legislature gave Full Suffrage in 1869 -- People satisfied with it -- Constitutional Convention for Statehoo...

Bishop John P. Newman favors Woman Suffrage -- Mrs. Stanton's sarcastic comments on the speeches of Senators Brown and Vest -- Lillie Devereux Blake's satire on the Rights of Me...

Pioneer work for suffrage -- New England and State Associations and May Festivals -- List of Officers -- Death of Lucy Stone -- Anti-Suffrage Association formed -- Fifty years o...

Early efforts for the suffrage -- Woman's Congress -- Amendment submitted to voters -- Great campaign of 1896 -- National officers go to its assistance -- Experience with State...

Battle-ground for Woman Suffrage -- Conventions for fifty years -- Great campaign in 1894 to secure amendment from Constitutional Convention -- Governors Hill and Flower recomme...

Status of woman at close of the century as shown in Organization, Legislative Action, Laws, Suffrage, Office-holding, Occupations and Education -- Part of different associations...

Organization work and large number of conventions -- Granting of Municipal Suffrage -- Alliance with parties -- Efforts for Full Suffrage -- Amendment submitted -- Republicans f...

Early State constitutions provided against Woman Suffrage -- First demand for it -- Women after the Civil War -- "Male" first used in National Constitution -- Fourteenth Amendme...

Efforts of women for the franchise in first constitutional convention -- Organization of suffrage clubs to secure amendment of constitution -- Legislative action and laws -- Sch...

Forming of National Association in 1869 -- Washington selected for annual conventions -- Call for that of '84 -- Extracts from speeches on Kentucky Laws for Women -- Woman befor...

The Atlanta convention first one held outside of Washington -- Cordial reception by press and people -- Miss Anthony's charm as presiding officer -- Examples of bright informal...

Organization for Woman Suffrage -- Question submitted to voters -- Endorsed by all political parties -- Work of women in the campaign -- Eastern anti-suffragists and Western liq...

Women enfranchised by Territorial Legislature in 1883 -- Figures of vote -- Unconstitutionally disfranchised by Supreme Court -- Suffrage Amendment refused in Constitutional Con...

Startling descriptions of delegates' attire -- Mrs. Stanton on Separate Spheres an Impossibility -- Discussion on resolution denouncing Religious Dogmas -- Criticism by minister...

Women enfranchised by Territorial Legislature in 1870 -- _Woman's Exponent_ -- Congress disfranchises women in 1887 -- They organize to secure their rights -- Canvass the State...

First work for woman suffrage -- Submission of Amendment -- Campaign of 1896 -- Favored by all political parties -- Carried by large majority -- Favorable decision of Supreme Co...

Organization -- Obtaining School Suffrage -- Supreme Court gives wide latitude to Legislature -- Women trustees for State University -- Equal guardianship of children for mother...

Early organization -- State officers -- Legislative action and laws -- Campaign for Woman Suffrage Amendment in 1887 -- Ably advocated but defeated -- Efforts to secure Amendmen...

Early suffrage organization -- Efforts in political conventions -- Work in Legislature -- Laws -- Amazing decisions of Supreme Court on the right of women to practice law, keep...

Women's work at Cotton Centennial and in Anti-lottery Campaign -- Organization for suffrage -- Efforts in Constitutional Convention of 1898 -- Taxpayer's Suffrage granted to wom...

Organization -- Attempt for amendment for School Suffrage -- Defeated by 10,000 majority -- Legislative action and laws -- First State in which women voted -- How they were depr...

Peculiar position of women -- Work of Suffrage Association with Congressional Committees -- Property rights secured -- Women on School Board -- Women in Government Departments -...

Organization -- Efforts in political conventions -- Municipal Suffrage granted to women -- Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court -- Coarse methods of opponents -- Conventio...

Long years of organized work -- Continued refusal of Legislature to submit a Woman Suffrage Amendment to voters -- Convention of the National Association in 1897 -- Liberal laws...

Organization -- Attempt to obtain Woman Suffrage from first Constitutional Convention -- School and Taxpayers' Suffrage granted -- Legislative action and laws -- Office-holding...