List of New Jersey suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2021)

Groups[edit]

Suffragists leaving for the White House in 1913
New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is formed in 1915.^[1]
Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, organized in 1910.^[2]
Equal Justice League, formed in Bayonne in 1911.^[3]
Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys.^[4]
Essex County Suffrage Society.^[5]
Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party.^[6]
Montclair Equal Suffrage League.^[7]
National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey.^[8]
New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League.^[4]
New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910.^[2]
New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).^[9]
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867.^[10]
Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898.^[11]
Progressive Woman Suffrage Society.^[8]
Rutherford Equal Suffrage League.^[12]
Sewaren Equal Suffrage League.^[13]
Vineland Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1866.^[14]
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.^[12]
Woman's Political Union of New Jersey.^[5]

Suffragists[edit]

Mina Van Winkle and the Suffrage Torch

Minnie Abbott (Atlantic City).^[8]
Minnie Adams (Sewaren).^[13]
Caroline B. Alexander (Hoboken).^[15]
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Elizabeth).^[10]
Emma L. Blackwell.^[16]
Henry Browne Blackwell (Orange).^[17]
Cornelia Foster Bradford.^[12]
Augusta Cooper Bristol (Vineland).^[18]
Charlotte Emerson Brown.^[19]
Ida E. Duckett Brown.^[9]
Katharine H. Browning (West Orange).^[20]
Mary E. Cary Burrell (Essex County).^[21]
Harriet Carpenter (Newark).^[22]
Flora Gapen Charters.^[23]
Edith H. Colby (West Orange).^[24]
Mary Kendall Loring Colvin (East Orange).^[25]
Henrietta Green Crawford (Vineland).^[26]
Agnes M. Cromwell (Mendham).^[27]
Seymour L. Cromwell.^[28]
May Chase Cummings (Middlesex County).^[29]
Fanny B. Downs (Orange).^[30]
Sarah Corson Downs.^[31]
Mary Dubrow (Passaic).^[8]
Thomas Edison (West Orange).^[32]
Charlotte N. Enslin (Orange).^[33]
Bertha L. Fearey (East Orange).^[30]
Lillian Feickert.^[34]
Florence F. Foster.^[2]
Susan Pecker Fowler (Vineland).^[35]
Cecilia Gaines (Jersey City).^[36]
Emma O. Gantz (East Orange).^[15]
Angelina Grimké.^[37]
Sarah Moore Grimké.^[37]
Florence Howe Hall.^[30]
Phebe Hanaford (Jersey City).^[38]^[39]
Alma Arabella Parker Harvey (Deal).^[40]
Carrie H. Henry (Jersey City).^[24]
Alison Turnbull Hopkins (Morristown).^[8]
Julia Hurlbut (Morristown).^[8]
Cornelia C. Hussey (East Orange).^[20]
Mary D. Hussey (East Orange).^[30]
Anna B. Jeffery.^[41]
Elizabeth A. Kingsbury (Vineland).^[42]
Beatrice Kinkead (Montclair).^[43]
Martha Klatscken (East Orange).^[8]
Clara Schlee Laddey.^[44]
Harriet Lafetra (Monmouth).^[17]
Alice Lakey (Cranford).^[24]
Amelia Berndt Moorfield (Newark).^[45]
Mary Pattison (Colonia).^[1]
Alice Paul (Mt. Laurel).^[8]
Mary Philbrook (Newark).^[36]
Aaron Macy Powell.^[46]
Anita Stillman Quarles (Hoboken).^[47]
Florence Spearing Randolph.^[48]
Ella M. Rice (Middlesex County).^[48]
Linton Satterthwaite (Trenton).^[49]
Melinda Scott (Newark).^[50]
Phoebe Scott (Morristown).^[8]
Agnes Anne Schermerhorn (East Orange).^[51]
Therese Walling Seabrook (Keyport).^[52]
Sarah E. Selover (South River).^[53]
Minola Graham Sexton (Orange).^[11]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Tenafly).^[54]^[14]
Lucy Stone (Orange).^[10]^[17]
Rhea Vickers.^[55]
Mina Van Winkle.^[49]
New Jersey suffragists, c. 1919 or 1920

Politicians supporting women's suffrage[edit]

William Miller Baird.^[56]
Robert Carey (Jersey City).^[28]
Thomas Chattle.^[57]
Everett Colby.^[28]
Walter Evans Edge.^[43]
Charles M. Egan (Jersey City).^[58]
John Franklin Fort.^[59]
William C. Gebhardt (Hunterdon County).^[55]
Charles O'Connor Hennessy (Bergen County).^[28]
Henry Lafetra (Monmouth).^[17]
Victor Mavalag (Elizabeth).^[59]
Walter I. McCoy.^[60]
William Lawrence Saunders (Plainfield).^[61]
Judge John Whitehead.^[19]
Alexander Wilder (Newark).^[62]
Grant Griesman (Bowdoin ‘24)
Alan Casey (from Madrid)

Suffragists campaigning in New Jersey[edit]

Anti-suffragists[edit]

Groups

Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey.^[70]
New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) is formed in 1912.^[49]

People

Anna Dayton (Trenton).^[71]
Georgiana Breese.^[49]
Frances Cleveland (Princeton).^[71]
Harriet Clark Fisher (Trenton).^[72]
Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (Trenton).^[73]
John A. Matthews (Newark).^[73]
William Francis Magie (Princeton).^[70]
Blanche O. Roebling (Trenton).^[74]

Anti-suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 21.
^ ^a ^b Harper 1922, p. 419.
^ ^a ^b Perrone 2021, p. 33.
^ ^a ^b "Suffrage Plans in Jersey". Perth Amboy Evening News. 1912-01-08. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-07-26 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 330.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 318.
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^ ^a ^b ^c McGoldrick & Crocco 1993, p. 38.
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^ ^a ^b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 10.
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Harper 1922, p. 414.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 8.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 217.
^ ^a ^b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 18.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Harper 1922, p. 413.
^ Livingston Adams, Betty. "Biographical Sketch of Mary E. Cary Burrell". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
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^ Williams, Victoria (2008-08-28). "These NJ women fought for right to vote". Gloucester County Times. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
^ Johnson, James Elton. "Biographical Sketch of Henrietta Green Crawford". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
^ Rex, Katrina. "NJ Suffragists – Agnes M. Cromwell (1874-1959)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Edison, Harvey, Hughes and Other Leading Men Refute Senator Martine". Passaic Daily News. 1915-10-07. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
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^ "Edison Comes Out Unqalifiedly for Suffrage". Passaic Daily News. 1915-10-07. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
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^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 24.
^ Getzinger, Diane. "Biographical Sketch of Susan Pecker Fowler". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920 – via Alexander Street.
^ ^a ^b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 19.
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^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 15.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 204.
^ Hooton, Chole Belle. "Biographical Sketch of Alma Arabella Parker Harvey". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
^ Brow, Kelsey. "NJ Suffragists – Anna B. Jeffery (1847-1938)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
^ Noun, Louise R. (1969). Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University PRess. p. 90. ISBN 0813816025.
^ ^a ^b "Period IV". New Jersey Women's History. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
^ ^a ^b Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 20.
^ Robb, George. "NJ Suffragists – Amelia Berndt Moorfield (1876-1950)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 253.
^ Robb, George. "NJ Suffragists – Anita Stillman Quarles (1887-1971)". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
^ ^a ^b Perrone 2021, p. 46.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 23.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 324.
^ Hendrickson, Lisa. "NJ Suffragist Biographies". Discover NJ History. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 202.
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^ Dodyk 1997, p. 208.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 205.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 343.
^ ^a ^b Dodyk 1997, p. 309.
^ Irwin 1921, p. 40.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 308-309.
^ Dodyk 1997, p. 210.
^ Levin & Dodyk 2020, p. 34.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Anthony 1902, p. 822.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dodyk 1997, p. 387.
^ ^a ^b Anthony 1902, p. 821.
^ McGoldrick & Crocco 1993, p. 40.
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^ Dodyk 1997, p. 357.
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^ "Woman Suffrage Battle Opens in New Jersey As Antis Unlimber Big Guns". The Chatham Press. 1915-05-29. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-08-02 – via Newspapers.com.
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Sources[edit]

Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
Dodyk, Delight Wing (May 1997). "Education and Agitation: The Woman Suffrage Movement in New Jersey". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest 304363653 – via ProQuest.
Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
Irwin, Inez Haynes (1921). The Story of the Woman's Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Levin, Carol Simon; Dodyk, Delight Wing (March 2020). "Reclaiming Our Voice" (PDF). Garden State Legacy. Susanna Rich. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
McGoldrick, Neale; Crocco, Margaret (1993). Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey (PDF). New Jersey Council for the Humanities. OCLC 29178051.
Perrone, Fernanda H. (2021). On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Middlesex County (PDF). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Arts Institute of Middlesex County. p. 21.

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