Edwine Blake Evans Danforth (1863–1961) Her resolution to pledge suffrage organizations assistance to Herbert Hoover's Government Housewives League was adopted, and they met once a week in New York City. A newspaper quote of 1917 supported her many activities, writing "Mrs. Danforth brings to the office the advantage of years of experience, both in suffrage work and other forms of service. She is an active participant in the Red Cross and served as local Chairman of the Woman's League for National Services." Mount Hope Cemetery Section V 1133 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620 Monroe County Learn More

Gertrude Wilmarth Lash (1861–1910) Pittsford residents worked actively to win women the right to vote. The Monroe County Mail on September 19, 1901 described how at a meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Gertrude Wilmarth Lash “... spoke in the interest of the Political Equality Club, with the object of starting a club in Pittsford among members of the W.C.T.U.” The Club had its first meeting on September 6, 1902. Like so many who worked for suffrage, many of the founding members never lived to see women vote; including Gertrude, who in addition to her political work, was a mother of eight children. (courtesy of www.townofpittsford.org/19thAcentennial/ppec-founders) Pittsford Cemetery F 332 38 Washington Road, Pittsford, NY 14534 Monroe County Learn More

Mary Elizabeth Murray Walling (1830–1910) Mary was active in the suffrage movement in her Victor community. Her mother was considered the community’s earliest known suffragist - Laura Arnold Murray (1793–1865). Mary was one of five children. Mary was a close friend of Susan B. Anthony and a member of the Political Equality Club of Rochester. She wrote civic-minded articles for the Victor Herald. If you know more about Mary, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Boughton Hill Cemetery Old Ground, Section C, Row 8, Lot 6, Grave 2 1518 NY Route 444, Victor, NY 14564 Ontario County Learn More

Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich (1870–1963) Margaret became president of the Woman's Municipal League. She founded the Churchwoman's Club, a suffrage club; headed the Law Enforcement League, and was treasurer for the Woman's Suffrage Party in New York. In 1917, she was elected president of the Protestant Episcopal Women's Suffrage Association. When she met Susan B. Anthony, she asked her advice for a suffrage speaking engagement in Albany. Anthony told her, "Always address the farthest man on the farthest bench. Some of those in between are agreeing with you." She is noted as one of Carrie Chapman Catt's capable officials in the campaign for suffrage in New York State. Trinity Church Cemetery ​ 770 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032 New York County Learn More

May Ladd Simonson (1868–1948) May was also known as Mrs. Charles E. Simonson. She was active in the Political Equality Club of Richmond County. After the passage of the 19th amendment, she was the Director of the League of Women Voters. She was also a member of many women's organizations. In 1921, May founded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation--a fund-raising and award-granting organization for those who aspired to Wilsons ideals for world peace. Moravian Cemetery ​ 2205 Richmond Road, New Dorp, NY 10306 Richmond 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

Anna McCarthy McCann Higinbotham (1861–1942) For at least two decades, Anna was an outstanding figure in public life in her community and county. She was an active member of Unity Club, and was sent as a delegate to Albany for a meeting of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. For many years Anna was a member of the Ontario County Commission on Tuberculosis and Public Health and a member of the Board of Directors of Oak-Mount Sanitarium. She also served as local Welfare administrator. During the World War, she was a leader in the work done by the women of this community, and a building on her premises served as headquarters for Red Cross activities , to which she gave untiring effort. At the close of the war, Anna's work was recognized by the award of a special medal. She continued to be a local Red Cross chairman. Saint Patrick's Cemetery Section 1, Row 15 215–301 High Street, Victor, NY 14564 Ontario County Learn More

Helen Leavitt (1876–1947) Helen was the legislative chairwoman of the New York State Suffrage Party. Due to her brilliant legislative work, she was key to the 1917 passage of the New York State women's suffrage law. She was also director of the Women's Land Army of New York State and Onondaga County, whose goal was to establish labor and living standards for women farm workers (known as farmerettes). Later in life, Helen became the New York Tribune's Assistant Advertising Director. White Plains Rural Cemetery ​ 167 N Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603 Westchester County Learn More

Alice E. Goodnow (1864–1934) Alice was an active member of her community, including a dedication to women's suffrage along with her sister and brother-in-law Francis and Frank Cobb. She was also active in St. Paul's Universalist Church's many community groups. 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 D, Row 13, Lot 12, Grave 5 1518 NY 444, Victor, NY 14564 Ontario County Learn More

Mabel Rosalie Barrow Edge (1877–1962) Born Mabel Rosalie Edge, she preferred "Rosalie". She was a socialite who committed her life to activism, becoming an influential environmental advocate. Rosalie was the daughter of Harriet Bowen Woodward and John Wylie Barrow, a wealthy British importer and accountant who was a first cousin to Charles Dickens. After marrying Charles Noel Edge, a British civil engineer, in 1909, she spent several years traveling throughout Asia. In 1915, after settling in New York, Rosalie joined the Equal Franchise Society, an organization founded by women of wealth to channel energies of the upper class into social activism. Rosalie became involved in the movement for women's voting rights, giving speeches and writing pro-suffrage pamphlets. In 1916, she was elected as the secretary-treasurer of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt. In the 1920s, Rosalie turned her focus to environmental conservation, eventually establishing the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. The Rosalie Edge Society is named for their founder who is considered one of the most important conservationists of the 20th Century. Woodlawn Cemetery ​ 93 Union Avenue (County Road 69), New Windsor, NY Orange County Learn More

Zaida Zoller (1882–1980) Little Falls was regarded as “the hot bed of Herkimer County” for women’s suffrage and Zaida Zoller was central to the activity. Susan B. Anthony and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw were guests at meetings held in the Zoller home. Zaida was chairwoman of the Little Falls Suffrage Club. In 1916, the Herkimer County Suffrage Convention was held in Little Falls. In 1917, Zaida hosted a Suffrage School meeting. Zaida’s twin brother, Abram (Mayor of Little Falls), spoke on the benefits of women’s suffrage. A suffrage library was also established at the local YMCA. In that same year, Zaida invited Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (past-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to Little Falls to attend a suffrage party at her home. Zaida organized numerous meetings and parades. After the passage of the 19th amendment, she was president of the Little Falls Chapter of the League of Women Voters. Fairview Cemetery ​ 1274 NY-169 (West Monroe Street), Little Falls, NY 13365 Herkimer County Learn More

Florence H. Stewart (1893–1983) Florence graduated from Buffalo State Teachers College, Columbia University, and took courses at Harvard in education, psychology. She was active in founding the Ontario County League of Women Voters, and served on the Board of Ontario County Mental Health. Florence founded Lochland School for disabled children, in Geneva, and was widely recognized as a pioneer in the education of children with developmental disabilities. She remained Executive Director for over fifty years until her death in 1983. Woodlawn Cemetery Section 13, Lot 244 130 N Pearl Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424 Ontario County Learn More

Florence Mills Sheffer (1870–1929) Florence was Canadian born but took an active role in obtaining the vote for women during her years in New York State. In 1915, Florence was the first President of the Shortsville Equal Suffrage Club. In following years, she was a second vice leader of the Ontario County Woman Suffrage Association. Florence is noted as being naturalized in the 1920 US Census indicating that she was prepared to vote. If you know more about Florence, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Brookside Cemetery Section A, Lot 90 18 Hebron Ave Shortsville, NY 14548 Ontario County Learn More

Ella Hawley Crossett (1853–1925) Ella was always devoted to her home, Hillcrest, in Warsaw, and to the cause of women's suffrage. In September,1891 she organized a convention in Warsaw where the Wyoming County Suffrage Association was formed with Ella named as president, a position that she held for many years. Shortly thereafter the Warsaw Political Equality Club was formed and Ella was named president of this group as well, a position she retained until national women's suffrage was enacted into law. Warsaw Cemetery ​ Route 19, Warsaw, NY 14569 Wyoming County Learn More

Mary (Minnie) Sutherland True (1856–1924) Mary “Minnie” was elected one of the vice- presidents of the Pittsford Political Equality Club at their first meeting in September 1902 and attended the state suffrage convention in Buffalo that year. The Club’s second and third meetings were held in her home at 42 Monroe Avenue. Minnie’s involvement with suffrage reflected the close ties between suffrage and temperance. The first suggestion to form the Club was made at a meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Women particularly suffered from alcohol abuse when it contributed to domestic violence. Women had no legal recourse and no right to custody of their children, their own wages, or to own property. The right to vote was seen by many as a way to establish legal protections for women and their children. Although Mary died in Washington, D.C., she was buried in Pittsford, NY. (*courtesy of www.townofpittsford.org/19thAcentennial) Pittsford Cemetery A 66 38 Washington Road, Pittsford, NY 14534 Monroe County Learn More

Elizabeth Radcliff Canough (1869–1944) Elizabeth was a suffrage leader in Syracuse in the 1910s. She held two key roles in 1915-1917, the final years of New York’s long crusade for the vote: she was president of the Syracuse Political Equality Club, and district leader for the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, responsible for Onondaga, Oswego, Cayuga, Jefferson, and Madison counties. The districts were defined by Carrie Chapman Catt, who had created a highly organized structure to lobby the men who would vote on a suffrage amendment in New York. This three-part process required passing a bill through both houses of the legislature, passing the same bill in the subsequent legislature, and then going to the voters for a popular referendum. In 1915, despite three years of ceaseless effort, they lost at the last step. The men of New York defeated the suffrage bill by a wide margin. Two nights after the defeat, the women of New York gathered at the Cooper Union in the East Village and immediately vowed to try again. They raised $100,000 that night to fund a do-over—about $2.5 million in 2020 terms. A few months after that, as the movement sought to shore up its leaders for the next round, Elizabeth spoke at a dinner in Syracuse honoring “suffrage pioneers.” In November 1916, at the state suffrage convention in Albany, she was elected leader of her district, known as District 5. We don’t know a lot about Elizabeth's work over the following year, but it must have been substantial: the referendum passed in 1917, and New York women finally became full citizens. Elizabeth and her husband William, a lawyer, had three children, but none of them lived to adulthood. After suffrage, Elizabeth continued to contribute to her community, serving as a member of the Syracuse Housing Authority during the Great Depression. She focused on establishing minimum housing standards for Syracuse. Bio by Rachel B. Tiven. Woodlawn Cemetery Plot Q Lake Street, Sandy Creek, NY 13145 Oswego County Learn More

Mary C. Larkin (–1920) Mary was a member of the Women's Political Union. That organization was founded by Harriet Stanton Blanche in 1906. It was also known as the Equality League for Self-Supporting Women. Their goal was to engage the support of women in wage-supporting occupations. During the great campaign of 1915, the Union was always looking for new ways to draw attention to the amendment. One of the ways was to gain the support of the Catholic clergy. The Saint Catherine Association of Catholic Women (founded by Sarah McPike) was a key part of the Catholic initiative. 500 Catholic women marched in the last suffrage parade in New York City in 1917. Mary was among a group of women who were cited for unceasingly writing and speaking up. Source: History of Womens Suffrage. Vol. 6. St. Agnes Cemetery of Utica ​ 601 Arthur Street, Utica, NY 13501 Oneida County Learn More

Susan B. Anthony Didn't Do It Alone. WOMEN AND THE VOTE NEW YORK STATE provides a growing suffragist directory and gravesite map to help you explore New York's rich and influential suffragist history. You'll find famous individuals and those you've never heard of whose grassroots efforts resulted in passage of milestone legislation including the 19th Amendment (1920), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—proposed in 1923—remains one state shy of ratification to this day. On Election Day, we hope you’ll cast your vote and then visit suffragists gravesites in your community wearing your “I Voted” sticker to show your gratitude for their tireless work. When you do, ask yourself how the past and the fragility of suffrage inspires you to honor Susan B. Anthony's call to continue the work for a just and equitable society for all. Do you know of a suffragist? The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is proud to be the new home of Women and the Vote New York State. We invite you to click the Add a Suffragist button above to submit a candidate for vetting. Remember, the suffragist must be buried in the state for inclusion in our growing database. Inspired by the Indigenous way of life. Long before Europeans set foot in what is now New York state, the Haudenosaunee considered women sacred. They created space for women to walk alongside men and share equally the burdens and the blessings of carrying forth a community. For EuroAmerican women who legally had no voice, no rights, and belonged to their fathers or husbands, this Indigenous model of democracy inspired dreams of freedom and equality. ​ Some early suffragists in Upstate New York, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott, befriended their Haudenosaunee neighbors. Witnessing democracy based on equity, not power over another, shaped the women's thinking and inspired their writings throughout the suffrage movement.

Susan Brandeis Gilbert (1893–1975) Susan was educated at Boston’s Winsor School, Bryn Mawr College (B.A., 1915), and the University of Chicago Law School (LL.B., 1919). In 1916, Susan worked for woman suffrage in Boston. New York City became her home in 1921. Admitted to the New York bar in 1921, no law firm would hire her because she was a woman, an event Susan Gilbert remembered all her life. Susan was the second woman member of the New York State Board of Regents appointed by Governor Herbert Lehman, serving in that post from 1935 to 1949. She was also an active member of the Bar Association of New York City, Hadassah, the Women’s City Club and the Democratic Party. When Brandeis University was founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1949, Susan and Jacob Gilbert were deeply involved in its development. She became the honorary national president of its National Women’s Committee, was made fellow of the university in 1952, and was awarded a doctor of humane letters in 1963. Union Field Cemetery ​ 82–11 Cypress Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385 Queens County Learn More

Sarah Hull Hallock (1813–1886) Sarah was a Quaker and abolitionist who joined the Friends of Human Progress in the late 1840s. She was also a member of the Women's Loyal National League, the American Equal Rights association, and The National Woman Suffrage Association. In July 1869, Sarah attended the State suffrage convention held in Saratoga Springs to create a permanent organization for the State of New York. She was elected to the Advisory Counsel for the Third Judicial District from Milton, NY, serving alongside Susan B. Anthony. In 1884, Sarah served as secretary at the convention of residents of the Second Assembly District of Ulster County. At the convention, a resolution was passed to request the Senator and Assemblyman from the county to work for the Woman Suffrage bill. Friends Cemetery No. 1 (AKA Hicksite Cemetery, Friends Burial Ground) ​ Maple Avenue, Milton, NY 12547 Ulster County Learn More