Jennie O. Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) Jennie was a prominent suffragist and member of the New York State Equal Suffrage Association, first serving as district director and then third vice president. She went on to become the Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Known for her forceful and talented speaking skills, Jennie was active on the local level. She maintained the Delhi, New York headquarters for the suffrage campaign. In 1914, Jennie organized an Equal Suffrage Convention in Delhi which included Carrie Chapman Catt as a speaker. In 1915, she organized a mass suffrage meeting in Hancock, New York, and advocated for suffrage by driving around Delaware County in her decorated automobile. Jennie provided the club with its headquarters. Woodland Cemetery Plot Lot: 493 2 Orchard Street, Delhi, NY 13753 Delaware County Learn More

Lucy Carlisle Watson (1855–1938) As a graduate from the Utica Academy in 1872, Lucy presented an essay entitled "The Pressures of Society upon Beliefs," indicating her resolve to effect change. Susan B. Anthony came to Utica in 1894 to address suffrage at the Utica Opera House. "Women of Oneida County," she declaimed, "you are paid less than men doing the same job as you because you do not have the ballot. You are denied the right to a voice in government because you do not have the ballot. What you have is a whole white male aristocracy." Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the orator of the cause, addressed women in Utica in 1900 and urged them to stand up for themselves and make a difference. She also maintained that men did not represent women at the ballot box. After her speech, the local suffrage movement began in earnest with the formation of the Utica Political Equality Club with Lucy as its president. She promoted the cause for 20 years, encouraging more women to join the movement. She helped to bring the New York State Suffrage Convention to Utica in 1912. In the August 31, 1912 Utica Herald Dispatch she was quoted: "Women suffrage appealed to my sense of justice, and during the past five years the feeling of equal suffrage for men and women is an essential feature in a democracy, and the hope it will aid in making better conditions for women and children will have strengthened my belief in the necessity of votes for women." In 1915, a suffrage liberty torch was carried throughout New York State with Lucy (at age 60) carrying the torch nineteen miles from Utica to Verona. Forest Hill Cemetery Plot 31 2201 Oneida Street, Utica, NY 13501 Oneida County Learn More

Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888) Seneca Falls residents Eunice Newton Foote and her husband (Elisha) were close friends of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and were both signed the declaration of sentiments (she was #5 on the list). Eunice was on the editorial committee that prepared the published proceedings. Eunice was a scientist who published an early experiment on greenhouse gasses, now being recognized as pre-dating the famous experiment by John Tyndall. Source, Wikipedia. Green-Wood Cemetery Sec 34, Lot 8379 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Kings County Learn More

Margaret Cameron Topliff (1878–1972) Margeret was a fearless leader and effective advocate for women’s suffrage. In 1912, she was president of the “Votes for Women Club” in Binghamton, New York. In that same year she attended the New York State Women’s Suffrage Convention in Utica. Due to her intense lobbying efforts, the convention was hosted in Binghamton the following year. From 1913 to 1915 she and her colleagues, Ida Wales Gitchell, Catherine Bartoo, and Lillian Huffcut, kept the discussion uppermost in the minds of Broome County citizens. Debates (pro and con) and activities were reported in the local press. As a result of their efforts, Broome county voted “yes” on the 1915 referendum to add suffrage to the New York State constitution. It was one of only five counties to approve of the measure. Unfortunately, the state-wide vote was rejected with 57.49% “No” and only 42.51 percent “Yes.” Even though the amendment was defeated, she remained undeterred. She, along with Ida, Catherine, and Lillian, formed the “The Broome County Woman Suffrage Party.” They raised funds, spoke at meetings, held dances, and parades. They also conducted a Suffrage School, which trained women on how to advocate for women’s suffrage. A newspaper article reported that she was “one of the best speakers of the city.” Margaret demonstrated her fearlessness at one of Binghamton’s suffrage parades. A male trolley driver deliberately headed right for the marchers. As the leader of the parade, she continued marching straight into the path of the oncoming street car. The trolley driver backed down. After passage of the 1917 New York State suffrage amendment, Margaret continued to remain active in civic affairs. She served as a Canteen Captain for the Red Cross in Broome County and participated in local social clubs. Margaret died at the age of 94. Glenwood Cemetery ​ 1 Pixley Drive, Afton, NY 13730 Chenango County Learn More

Margaret Maude Fish (1887–1953) Maude was a member of the Ontario County Political Equity Club. She addressed the need for women to be enfranchised at local meetings of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Grange and others. In 1917, she was named a captain in the push for votes for women in the town of Seneca. During World War I, Maude signed on with the YMCA and was stationed in France and the British Isles working in canteens for the troops. In later years, she resided in Manhattan and was an executive secretary at the Museum of Natural History. Maude's life included a wide variety of experiences. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Little Church Cemetery ​ 4948 Little Church Road, Stanley, NY 14561 Ontario County Learn More

Lousie Hartshorne Leeds (1867–1923) Louise was a supporter of woman suffrage in N.Y. State. In February 1910, Louise attended a mass meeting in Albany put on by the New York Suffrage Association and the Equal Franchise Society. Lawmakers and prominent officials were invited to the meeting to hear arguments for woman suffrage. Louise was noted as having gone to Albany to call on lawmakers and to speak to representatives from her district regarding supporting woman suffrage. Louise was listed as serving as chairman of finance for the Empire State Committee, a suffrage campaign committee organized in November 1913 and composed of representatives from several active N.Y. societies, including the State Suffrage Association, Woman Suffrage Party of New York City, and the Equal Franchise Society. Louise was in attendance at a March 1916 ball of the New York State Suffrage Party, having taken a box for the ball at Madison Square Garden. She was also a member of the League for Political Education, founded in November 1894 with the purpose of promoting good citizenship, social justice, and general intelligence. In 1919, it is noted that the league had 4,000 members, including 700 public school teachers, and that lectures were attended mainly by women. *courtesy alexanderstreet.com Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Section 85 540 N Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 Westchester County Learn More

Ethel Cuff Black (1890–1977) Ethel was one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She was elected the sorority’s first vice president and attended the Deltas’ first public event, the Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., in March 1913. Prominent suffragist Mary Church Terrell lobbied on behalf of the Deltas to win them a place in the parade, where they were the only African American organization represented. At Howard University, Ethel was chairwoman of the collegiate chapter of the YWCA. During college, she was also the vice-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, but later voted to reorganize the sorority and formed Delta Sigma Theta with twenty-one other women. Due to illness she graduated Howard in 1915. Ethel was notably the first African-American teacher in Rochester, NY. Cypress Hills Cemetery ​ 833 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208 Kings County Learn More

Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806–1893) Elizabeth was a poet, fiction writer and women's rights activist. Born in Maine, Elizabeth had dreams of attending college and starting a school. Under pressure from her mother, she married young. Her husband was a publisher who supported her writing career. In 1850, Elizabeth attended the National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester. This motivated her to leave fiction writing for essays on women's need for economic opportunity, higher education and voting. Her work was published in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Elizabeth was a candidate for president of the National Women's Rights Association at their 1852 convention in Syracuse. Her selection was opposed when she appeared in a dress showing her neck and bare arms. Elizabeth continued to attend conventions, write and lecture in the following years. Interest in her work waned after her death but saw a resurgence in the 1970s as advocacy for women's rights welcomed new generations. Lakeview Cemetery ​ 270–242 W Main Street (Montauk Highway), Patchogue, NY 11772 Suffolk County Learn More

Caroline C. Crane (1873–1964) Caroline completed four years of college, worked as a stenographer, and was then the first woman to be admitted to the bar in NYS. She went on to practice law in Canandaigua and was active in the Republican Party. Caroline was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1922. Woodlawn Cemetery Section 5 Lot 78 130 N Pearl Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424 Ontario County Learn More

Mary Elisabeth Dreier (1875–1963) Mary Elisabeth was a labor union activist and women’s suffrage supporter. From 1906 to 1914, she was president of the New York Women's Trade Union League (NYWTUL), an organization dedicated to improving factory working conditions for women, raising funds for striking workers, and lobbying for labor reform legislation. She was arrested for participating in the “Uprising of 20,000,” a 1909 shirtwaist factory strike. From 1915 to 1918, Mary devoted her energies to women’s suffrage and chaired the Industrial Section of New York City's Woman Suffrage Party. She remained on the NYWTUL board until it disbanded in 1950. Throughout her life, she was a highly respected labor leader, serving on several commissions including: the New York State Factory Investigating Commission, the New York State Committee on Women in Industry, the New York Council for Limitation of Armaments, the Committee for the Outlawry of War of the WTUL, and various other boards and advisory committees. Green-Wood Cemetery Section 167, Lot 17004 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Kings County Learn More

Anna Bancroft Sayre (1855–1924) Anna spent her life in West Bloomfield, New York. She was the wife of a local physician who served for the Union Army during the Civil War. Anna was a member of the Home Missionary and the Honeoye Aid Societies. While Anna's exact roles are unknown, it is well documented that the Richmond area was actively supporting the causes of abolition, temperance and women's rights. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Woodlawn Cemetery Section 5, Lot 118 130 North Pearl Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424 Ontario County Learn More

Daisy Robinson Tapley (1882–1925) Daisy moved to Chicago to study music and perform organ at Quinn Chapel, a congregation within the progressive African Methodist Episcopal faith. It was perhaps during this period that she first became exposed to the politics of gender and race. She married Green Tapley and moved to New York City in the early 1900s. She was already a budding contralto voice in the national music scene. Even as her career grew, Daisy became engaged in the women's rights movement. This included her attendance at the 1913 convention of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, where she and her fellow delegates would vote in favor of women's suffrage. Daisy remained active in the organization beyond this initial participation, including acting as the treasurer of the New York chapter. In 1915, while serving in this role, Daisy's name appeared on a resolution for the allocation of funds for a monument to Harriet Tubman. *Courtesy Alexanderstreet.com Oakland Cemetery ​ Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor, NY 11963 Suffolk County Learn More

Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822–1911) Between 1897 and 1911 Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, filled seven large scrapbooks with ephemera, convention programs, letters, press clippings, photographs, pins, ribbons, banners, and other memorabilia. The scrapbooks were created primarily to document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club, which the Millers founded in Geneva, New York, in 1897. They offer a unique look at the political and social atmosphere of the time as well as chronicle the efforts of two women who were major participants in the suffrage movement. Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks are a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. They also recorded some of the persistent efforts of a growing number of dedicated women and men working for woman suffrage at the state, national, and international levels. These scrapbooks capture the spirit of this suffrage struggle and provide a unique opportunity to share in the personal frustrations and victories of a cause in progress. Peterboro Cemetery ​ Peterboro Road, Peterboro, NY 13134 Madison County Learn More

Adelaide Thompson Williams White (1864–1917) Adelaide was the first president of the Political Equality Club of Rome, NY. She helped raised money for the National Woman's Party. Although the club did not picket, they were part of a 50-member area women's group supporting Alice Paul and her efforts to secure the vote. In 1931 the New York State League of Women Voters presented a memorial tablet to the State of New York to hang inside the State Street entrance to the Capitol to commemorate the women foremost in the cause of women's suffrage. Four women from Oneida County appear on the tablet: Miss Lucy Carlile Watson, Miss Janet Price, Mrs. Samuel J. Bens and Adelaide William White. Forest Hill Cemetery Plot M/64 55 Lambert Avenue, Fredonia, NY 14063 Chautauqua County Learn More

Nellie Grainger Aldrich (1838–1920) An article appeared in the Geneva Daily Times on Saturday, October 25, 1913 stating that a political equality club had been formed with the assistance of Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Beard from Geneva. Mrs. Nellie (Nettie) Aldrich was chairman. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Little Church Cemetery ​ 4948 Little Church Road, Stanley, NY 14561 Ontario County Learn More

Harriet M. Lee Rathbun (1840–1929) Harriet was an author and businesswoman, Yet she seems to be an individual whose work on suffrage was not well documented. Google books makes reference to her as someone who supported an amendment to the New York State constitution allowing women to vote. Her name appears often in the records and in several volumes of The History of Women's Sufferage. After her first husband's death, Harriet relocated to Manhattan. Her name appears in a 1924 New York City voters list, so she was able to exercise her right to vote. Rathbunville Cemetery ​ Verona Mills Road, Rome, NY 13440 Oneida County Learn More

Sarah Hall Bonesteele (1873 –1957) Originally from Massachusetts, Sarah entered MIT as one of first females accepted there; she had at one time also been a tutor for Helen Keller. Sarah was active in community groups and had spoken on politics to the Victor Equal Suffrage Association. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Riverside Cemetery Section N, Lot 106 2650 Lake Avenue, Rochester, NY 14612 Monroe County Learn More

Mary Emeline Alverson Brace (1846–1930) Attended a Women's Rights Convention in 1948 at the Unitarian Church, Victor, NY with other "prominent and respectable" community 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. Boughton Hill Cemetery Old Ground, Section B, Row 2, Lot 17, Grave 4 1518 NY-444, Victor, NY 14564 Ontario County Learn More

Julia Ann Wilbur (1815–1895) Before the Civil War, Julia spent more time in abolition than woman's rights activities, although always strongly supported economic, social, and political rights for women. In 1869, she planned with five other women to register to vote in local elections in Washington. They presented a letter to election judges that read, in part, "We know that it is unusual for those of our sex to make such a request. We do so because we believe ourselves entitled to the franchise." Although the judges refused the request, their effort was covered in the press. A book about her: ”A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose" by Paula Whitacre 2017. Avon Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53277938/julia-ann-wilbur 142 Rochester Street, Avon, NY 14414 Livingston County Learn More

Catherine (Kate) Swift Thompson (1842–1925) Catherine ("Kate") was inspired by Lillie D. Blake calling on women to organize for the suffrage cause. Kate served as the first secretary of the Chautauqua County Political Equity Club; the first such organization in New York State. She went on to serve as the treasurer of the New York State Suffrage Association from 1895-1897. Kate’s husband Norman R Thompson was an educator, school superintendent and held office in Jamestown. By 1900, the couple became residents of Albany where he held a government job. Kate does not have an occupation noted but it is easy to imagine she would be active in this cause during this time. Lake View Cemetery ​ 907 Lakeview Ave, Jamestown, NY 14701 Chautauqua County Learn More