Rosalie Loew Whitney (1873–1939) Rosalie was a lawyer, judge, government official, and suffragist. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1895. In 1896, she was the first woman lawyer to try a case before the New York Supreme Court. Rosalie and her father were partners in a law firm, Loew and Loew, before she took a position with the Legal Aid Society in 1897. "It is an error to suppose that woman cannot look at things in a large way," she commented in an 1896 newspaper profile. "There is nothing in the mental bias of a woman to prevent her having a comprehensive knowledge of any of the affairs of life, no matter how great." She used her language skills (fluency in Hungarian, Yiddish, and German) to represent and interpret for immigrant workers, in cases involving labor violations, predatory loans, and fraud. In 1903, she was rejected for membership in the Bar Association of the City of New York, on the basis of her gender She was active in the women's suffrage movement in New York City, as a member of the Brooklyn Woman’s Suffrage Party and as New York congressional chair of the Woman’s Federal Equality Association. Rosalie represented Brooklyn at the National Suffrage Convention in Washington in 1917; and she spoke on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in a Congressional hearing in 1918. Additionally, she helped to found the National Women's Republican Club. In 1918 she attended the Republican National Committee meeting in St. Louis, working for the party's public support for the 19th Amendment. Rosalie was in the first group of twelve women admitted to the Bar Association of the City of New York, in 1937; by that time, she had a long career in the law, and had already served two years as Justice on the Court of Domestic Relations in New York. Green-Wood Cemetery Section 129, Lot 37356 500 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232-1317 Kings County Learn More

Edmonia Goodelle Highgate (1844–1870) Edmonia died young, at 26. She did a lot in her young life with the American Abolition Society and spoke at conventions headed by Frederick Douglass. Upon introducing her Douglass was "alarmed by reactions of men in the Syracuse streets" but "urged the convention to follow the thoughts of Miss Highgate declaring that what they were doing "gives offense to none but the sordid haters of our race". Edmonia was in the first class at Syracuse High School and graduated with honors as the only African American in 1861. If you know more about Edmonia Goodelle Highgate you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Oakwood Cemetery Section 6, Lot 89 Comstock Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 Onondaga County Learn More

Inez Milholland (Boissevain) (1886–1916) Inez attended Vassar College, where she excelled in track and field and drama. It was at Vassar that she first became active in the fight for women's suffrage. When the college refused to allow speakers on womens' suffrage to appear on campus, Inez organized a rally in a local cemetery. Vassar suspended her for this, but she was not deterred. After graduating from Vassar in 1909, she earned a degree in labor law from NYU and became a respected attorney. In March of 1913, the day of Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, 8,000 suffragists marched for their cause in Washington D.C. Inez Milholland, dressed in white robes and riding on a white horse at the head of the parade made a powerful and striking impression on the crowd. Later she became one of the leaders of the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage, as well as the movements most popular public speaker. Additionally, Inez was a co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. On October 16, 1916, while giving a speech against Woodrow Wilson in Los Angeles, she suddenly collapsed. Inez Milholland lived with pernicious anemia, which had worsened due to her demanding speaking schedule and near constant travel. Ten weeks after her collapse, she died. She was thirty years old. Her last public words were famously, "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?" She was the wife of Dutch businessman Jan Boissevain. Her sister, Miss Vida Milholland, was also a Suffragist buried in the same cemetery. Lewis (Center) Cemetery Pines: Go to the top of the hill 933 Fox Run Road, Elizabethtown, NY 12932 Essex County Learn More

Charlotte (Lottie) Henderson (1877–1949) “Lottie” as she was known, was recognized in July 1906 by the New York Age for being an efficient president of the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs for two terms while also holding her presidency of the Auxilium Club and the Telephone Club, a club she had founded that paid the expenses of phones for the sick and dying through the parishioners of Dr. W.T. Dixon's church. In 1914, Charlotte helped with the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs (ESFWC), as the organization held its annual meeting at Concord Baptist Church. Charlotte was affiliated with the ESFWC through the Dorcas Home Missionary Society as well as through friendships with other notable Concord Baptist Church women, who were also active with the ESFWC. In 1914, the group discussed plans for a Harriet Tubman memorial. This event was a reunion for the New York City delegates at the prior year's meeting as well as Minnie Brown, M.C. Lawton, and Lucretia Freeman. At one point, Charlotte "Lottie" Henderson served as chair of the executive board of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs. (Courtesy Alexanderstreet.com) Slate Hill Cemetery ​ South Church Street, Goshen, NY, 10924 Orange County Learn More

Dorothy May Day (1897–1980) Dorothy picketed the White House with the National Women's Party in 1917. She was jailed along with the Silent Sentinels and beaten during the infamous "Night Of Terror" at Occoquan Workhouse. She served a 30-day sentence and participated in a hunger strike along with her fellow suffrage protestors. Dorothy detailed her experiences in her memoir The Long Loneliness. She was also the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and devoted her life to peace, social justice, and directing aid to the poor. Cemetery of the Resurrection (AKA Resurrection Cemetery) Section 10 361 Sharrott Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10309 Richmond County Learn More

Clara Loew Neymann (1840–1931) Clara was a prominent member of the German reform community in the United States. She spoke at the first convention of the Deutscher Frauenstimmrechtsverein in New York in 1872, which had been established with the help of her sister-in-law, Mathilde Neymann Wendt. In 1882, Clara was a speaker at the Suffrage Convention for New York State Women. That same year, she traveled with Susan B. Anthony to Nebraska to support the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Society's campaign. Clara aided in uniting large numbers of new immigrants who could be reached in the German language. While the German-American women's rights movement operated parallel and, at times, in opposition to the larger US movement, Clara frequently served as a messenger between the groups. Green-Wood Cemetery Lot 24565, Section 202 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Kings County Learn More

Jennie Mary King Pearson (1839–1903) Mary "Jennie" was active in both the temperance and suffrage movement. In 1891, Jennie gave the welcome address of the 23rd annual convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association held at the Opera House in Auburn, NY. She was later named as the recording secretary for the association and also served as auditor. Jennie was also a member of the executive committee for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, where she served in Auburn as county superintendent for juvenile work and the department of mercy in 1895. Fort Hill Cemetery Linden View Lot 39145, Grave 4 19 Fort Street, Auburn, NY 13021 Cayuga County Learn More

Luther Wright Mott (1874–1923) Born in Oswego, Luther attended the public schools and graduated from Harvard University in 1896. He began his career at the First National Bank of Oswego, which was owned by his family, and he eventually became the bank's cashier and vice president. He was a founder of the Oswego Chamber of Commerce, created by merging two other organizations, and he served as its president. A civic activist, Luther was a trustee of the Presbyterian church he attended, the public library in Oswego, and Oswego's Home for the Homeless and Orphan Asylum. In 1907 Luther was appointed state Banking Commissioner, but served just five days before resigning on the grounds of ill health. He was a delegate to the 1908 Republican National Convention and he was president of the New York State Bankers' Association from 1910 until 1911. Luther was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-Second and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1911 until his death in Oswego in 1923. During his service in Congress Luther actively advocated women's suffrage and prohibition. Riverside Cemetery Section X, Lot 10 Old Route 57, East River Road, Oswego, NY 13126 Oswego County Learn More

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) Susan was the driving force behind the 19th Century women’s rights movement. She was born in 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts to Quaker parents, who believed in abolition, temperance, and the equality of men and women. Susan's work in women’s rights began in 1852, when she co-founded the Woman’s New York State Temperance Society. Their goal was to advocate for state legislation to regulate the sale of alcohol, allow women to divorce their husbands for drunkenness, and permit women the right to vote. For the next half century, Susan labored ceaselessly for women’s rights on the state, national and international levels. She founded the National Woman’s Suffrage Association and the International Women’s Council and lectured throughout the United States and lobbied lawmakers for women’s property rights, divorce laws favorable to women, and women’s suffrage. In fact, Susan drafted the language of the 19th Amendment first introduced to Congress in 1878. She voted illegally in the 1872 federal election for which she was fined $100 but did not pay. In 1906, Susan gave her last speech, where she concluded with her famous quote “Failure is Impossible.” She passed away one month later at the age of 86. It would be another fourteen years before the passage of the 19th amendment. Nonetheless, her efforts laid the foundation for its enactment. Two organizations that she founded exist today and are carrying out her legacy. The National Woman Suffrage Association became the League of Women Voters. The International Council on Women serves in a consultative capacity to the United Nations. In 1921, Susan was commemorated with a statue of her, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, which is on display in the U.S. Capitol Building. In 1979, the Susan B. Anthony dollar was issued making it the first coin with a woman’s likeness. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan has a sculpture honoring four spiritual heroes of the twentieth century: Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, and one woman—Susan B. Anthony. " Mount Hope Cemetery Section C, Lot 93 1133 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620 Monroe County Learn More

Alonzo Barton Cornell (1832–1904) Alonzo was elected governor of New York State in 1879. In his first message to the legislature, he spoke on the value of women as school officers, and on February 12, 1880, he signed a bill that secured women's right to vote in all school matters, and also made women eligible to serve as school officers. The following day, Lucy Brand of Rochester became a registered voter. While women still could not vote in all elections, Alonzo was a key figure in guaranteeing women local voting rights. Sage Chapel at Cornell University ​ 147 Ho Plaza, Ithaca, NY 14850 Tompkins County Learn More

Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1873–1949) Harriet was a suffragist, reformer, and educator. As an early proponent of women's suffrage, she later became a director of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in which she and other suffragists helped persuade President Theodore Roosevelt to lend support for their cause. After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Harriet promoted the United States membership into the League of Nations and the eventual creation of the United Nations. In addition, she was a crusader against white enslavement and coerced prostitution among white and Chinese women in New York. Green-Wood Cemetery Section 172, Lot 13406 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Kings County Learn More

Mary Stafford Anthony (1827–1907) The youngest surviving sister of Susan B. Anthony, Mary was an American women suffragist who played a strong role during the women's rights movement in the 19th century. Anthony was a teacher who was promoted to the position of principal; she was the first woman known to receive equal pay with males in this position in the Rochester City School District in Western New York. She grew up in a Quaker family and became involved in several suffrage and other progressive organizations, such as the New York Women's Suffrage Association, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony founded the Women's Political Club, later renamed in 1880 as the Political Equality Club. Mount Hope Cemetery, Section C, Lot 93 Section C, Lot 93 1133 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620 Monroe County Learn More

Stella Phelps Bell (1870–1925) Stella was an active member of the Political Equality Club of Glens Falls. She was appointed to the club’s finance committee in 1914. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Glens Falls Cemetery ​ 38 Ogden Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801 Warren County Learn More

Miriam Florence Foline Leslie (1887–1919) born in New Orleans, Miriam was an author, editor and publisher. Married four times along with several romantic relationships, Miriam was a socialite and world traveler. Her greatest accomplishment was rescuing her late husband's publishing company from bankruptcy. Under her leadership, Frank Leslie Publishing was a successful enterprise, earning her the title "Empress of Journalism". In her will, Miriam left a bequest of two million dollars to Carrie Chapman Catt to support the suffrage movement. The generous legacy established the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission and the publishing of "The Woman Citizen" newspaper; a fitting tribute to Miriam's accomplishments in the publishing world. Woodlawn Cemetery Spring Lake Plot, Section 15 4199 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470 Bronx County Learn More

Emily Townsend Peckham (1843–1901) Emily was a founding member of the Easton Political Equality Club, the first suffrage club in Washington County, NY along with her sister Chloe Peckham Sisson. Easton Rural Cemetery (also known as Quaker Cemetery) Plot Q-1 Meeting House Road, Easton, NY 12154 Washington County Learn More

Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (1883–1971) Nora continued the legacy begun by her grandmother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and mother, Harriet Stanton Blatch. Nora was the first female to graduate from Cornell University with a civil engineering degree and the first woman admitted to the Society of American Civil Engineers. When she aged out of her junior member status, she sued to be a full member but was denied based on her gender. In 2015, she was given this status posthumously. Nora's first husband wanted her to give up her occupation to be a housewife. Although pregnant, she refused and they were divorced shortly after. These actions speak to her strong belief in women's rights. In 1915, Nora was elected president of the Women's Political Union began by her mother. This organization joined thousands of working women together in support of voting, equal pay and improved working conditions. In later years, she worked in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Nora wrote articles promoting world peace until the time of her death. Woodlawn Cemetery ​ 4199 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470 Bronx County Learn More

Mary (Maud) Molson Hughes (1846–1881) Mary lectured around Western New York in the spring of 1869 with Charles Lenox Remond, a well-known Massachusetts abolitionist, in support of the Fifteenth Amendment. During that summer she spoke at many events, including the Colored Men's Convention in Binghamton, NY. In her lectures, Mary addressed controversial issues such as her ideas about black equality, her allegiance to the Republican Party and her aggravation at the Democratic Party's persistent "cry of the white man's government." Mary and those in attendance at the convention attributed some of the backlash against the black suffrage movement to the "white supremacist politicians," who dominated the New York membership of the Democratic party. Although Mary's lectures primarily focused on garnering support for black male suffrage, she did find opportunities, including the 1869 meeting of the Equal Rights League, to make an appeal for what she referred to as "impartial suffrage," by which she meant the rights of African Americans and women to vote. Mary's contributions to the woman suffrage movement of the 19th century won her a notation in the History of Woman Suffrage. (Courtesy of AlexanderStreet.com) Collins Center Cemetery Lot 2A NY-39, Collins Center, NY 14035 Erie County Learn More

Eleanor Vincent (1806–1886) Two years prior to the Seneca Falls convention, six women petitioned the New York State Constitutional Convention to grant women their God-given equal rights. Eleanor was one of those women. A 1997 publication by the University of Chicago Press, "1846 Petition for Women's Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention," provides the details that follow. "These women were neither prominent nor wealthy. Their level of education is unknown. Eleanor Vincent had ten children. Lydia Williams was married with five children. Susan Ormsby never married and lived with Lydia Osborn. Amy Ormsby was Susan's sister-in-law. Anna Bishop immigrated to the area from Connecticut and was about 56 years old. Their petition was simple and eloquent. They were seeking "rights which have been ungenerously been withheld from them, rights which they as citizens of the state of New York may reasonably and rightfully claim." Old Depauville Cemetery ​ NY-12, Depauville, NY 13656 Jefferson County Learn More

Mabel Hall Wilson Fitch (1872/73–1954) Mabel was a member of the Gorham Political Equity Club. She also belonged to the Ladies Aid Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Little is known of her exact contributions but she was involved in working to gain the vote for women. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Rushville Village Cemetery ​ North Main Street, Rushville, NY 14544 Ontario County Learn More

Alice Morgan Wright (1881–1975) An American sculptor, suffragist, and animal welfare activist; Alice was one of the first American artists to embrace Cubism and Futurism. She was also an ardent suffragist. Alice helped to bring the charismatic Emmeline Pankhurst to a speaking engagement in Paris and felt inspired to go to London herself to join the suffrage movement there. With the National Women’s Social and Political Union, she participated in militant demonstrations in England. She was incarcerated for two months in Holloway Prison, London. With other suffragettes, Alice protested her treatment by participating in a hunger strike. She used smuggled plasteline to model a portrait bust of her fellow prisoner, Pankhurst. Alice continued her suffrage activism after her return to the United States in 1914. She was Recording Secretary of the Woman’s Suffrage Party of New York during the winning campaign. Alice only returned to sculpture full-time after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1920, she returned to Albany and gradually turned away from art to focus on political activism, especially animal rights, going as far as writing the Peace Plantation Animal Sanctuary organization's 12 Guiding Principles, which are still in use today. In 1921, Alice helped to create the League of Women Voters of New York State, eventually serving as a delegate to the 1948 United Nations assembly in Paris. Alice Wright and Edith J. Goode were lifetime companions, having met at Smith College. Together they worked tirelessly for peace and justice. Albany Rural Cemetery Section 29, Plot 42 Cemetery Avenue, Menands, NY 12204 Albany County Learn More