Suffragists in Nebraska

Elizabeth M. (Griffin) Abbott, Grand Island:   President of Grand Island Suffrage Association.

Hazel (Hempel) Abel, Lincoln:  Active in the suffrage movement.

Lelia Adams, Lincoln: Active in the suffrage movement

Mrs. W. E. Barkley, Lincoln: President of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Ada Cole Bittenbender, Lincoln:  Helped organize the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association. 

Harriet S. Brooks, Omaha:  Founding member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.  She wrote suffrage articles in the Omaha Republican.

Mary Baird Bryan, Lincoln:  Active in the suffrage movement at both the state and national level. 

Lydia Story Butler, Pawnee City:  Active in the suffrage movement.

Mamie M. (Perkins) Clafin, Ord: President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which supported suffrage.

Clara D. (Bewick) Colby, Beatrice:  She contributed suffrage columns to Beatrice Express and Western Woman’s Journal and published the Woman’s Tribune 1883-1909, the second suffrage newspaper and the longest running suffrage paper in the USA.  She spoke to the US Senate Committee about women’s suffrage in 1900, where she was introduced by Susan B. Anthony.

Erasmus M. Correll, Hebron:  Edited and published the first suffrage paper in the state Western Woman’s Journal.  He was President of the American Woman’s Suffrage Association.

Lucy L. (Wilder) Correll, Hebron:  Wrote columns supporting feminist causes, including suffrage and provided space for women to write about suffrage.

Dr. Emma Warner Demaree, Rocka: President of the Suffrage Club in Roca and  Lancaster County Suffrage Association.

Daisy C. Doane, Omaha: Recording Secretary of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Rheta Childe Dorr, Omaha: At age 12, heard Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak, joined National Woman Suffrage Association. Was first editor of The Suffragist in 1914. Confronted President Wilson on suffrage at press conference.

Gertrude Laws Hardy, Lincoln: Treasurer of Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association and College Equal Suffrage League. Also a member of Lincoln Woman Suffrage Association

Viola M. Harrison, Lincoln: Executive Secretary of Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association

Ada Heaton, Lincoln: Active in the suffrage movement.

Alice Howell, Lincoln: Active in the suffrage movement.

Anna R. (Clema) Kovanda, Table Rock: Vice-President of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Mrs. Z. T. Lindsey, Omaha: Second Auditor of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Sarah T. Muir, Lincoln:  Active in the suffrage movement. After the ratification of the 19th Amendment she held offices in the Nebraska Legislature.

Dr. Inez Philbrick, Lincoln:  President of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Dr. Louise Pound, Lincoln: Active in the suffrage movement.

Lucinda Russell, Omaha: Appointed Nebraska member to the American Woman’s Suffrage Association.

Ruth Ryrtle, Lincoln: Active in the suffrage movement.

Ada E. Shafer, Omaha: Wrote the Woman’s Journal for the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association

Margaret Sheldon, Lincoln:  Active in the suffrage movement and President of the Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Mrs. Draper Smith, Omaha: President of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Myrtle Stevenson, Lincoln: Active in the suffrage movement. 

Mrs. H. H. Wheeler, Lincoln: First Auditor of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.

Mary Harn Williams, Kenesaw: Corresponding Secretary of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association. She was also a delegate from Nebraska to the national Equal Suffrage Convention.