Maude Cyril Nagle Schmidt (1873 –1947) Maude was a leading voice of the Herkimer County Suffrage Convention back in 1917. She was elected leader of the county organization and was heavily involved with the activities of the Ilion Suffrage Study Club. Always civic minded she became the first woman leader of the Herkimer County Republican Committee along with memberships in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Red Cross, and Ilion Historical Club. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Muriel Cornelia Zoller, wife of Supreme Court Justice Abram Zolier, Herkimer. Maude is included in a Herkimer County Historical Society documentary which is included in a link here under "Learn More". Armory Hill Cemetery (AKA German Flatts Cemetery, Ilion Cemetery) Section 3, Lot 5 Benedict Avenue, Ilion, NY 13357 Herkimer County Learn More

Anneliza Sleight Briggs (1851–1941) Anneliza was a child of ten when the Civil War began and later in life recalled her childhood, as a flurry of excitement in during the abolition period. Anneliza married Zachary Briggs and had three children. In January 1906, she was 55 years old when she joined the Honeoye Political Equality Club which was just formed with only a dozen members – all women. Local political equality clubs were established across the nation to highlight the need for women’s political and public parity. Dedicated women strove to bring attention to the issue of women’s suffrage through education, political action, and social reform. Three years after joining the Political Equality Club, Anneliza was elected treasurer of the Club, and was sent as a delegate to the County Convention in Phelps. Anneliza died in her home one week before her ninetieth birthday. Lakeview Cemetery ​ 4949-4911 County Road 36 (West Lake Road), Honeoye, NY 14471 Ontario County Learn More

Margaret Ashley Bellinger (1846–1929) Margaret, born in Ilion, was inspired by Susan B. Anthony and Dr. Anna H. Shaw, who spoke at the nearby Herkimer Opera House in 1894. They were seeking support for a women’s suffrage amendment to be added to New York State’s constitution. Shortly thereafter, Margaret was one of 50 women who met at the Ilion YMCA to form a Political Equality Club. Susan B. Anthony spoke at that meeting. Margaret was elected Corresponding Secretary. At the same meeting the group formed the Herkimer County Political Equality Club and she was elected Recording Secretary. Political Equality Clubs were organizations within the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). These local clubs were intended to broaden suffrage support in small towns and rural areas. Even though the 1894 suffrage amendment to the state constitution was defeated, the women leading these local clubs continued their work. In 1914, Margaret trained other women in suffrage campaign strategies in a Suffrage School in Syracuse, New York. In 1915, Ilion participated in the Suffrage Liberty Torch relay that started in Long Island and ended in Buffalo. Ilion club member, Maria Louisa Haughton, carried the bronze suffrage torch from Little Falls to Utica. In 1917, the Ilion club hosted the annual Herkimer County Women’s Rights Convention at Wilcox Hall in Ilion. In addition to her suffrage work, Margaret was recording secretary in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) dedicated to prohibiting alcohol, labor laws, prison reform, and suffrage. The Herkimer County organization had over 300 members in 1900. Margaret died at the age of 83. Armory Hill Cemetery Section 3, Lot 113 Benedict Avenue, Ilion, NY 13357 Herkimer 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

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

Mary E. Tallman (1827–1924) Mary was noted in the History of Women's Suffrage as having signed a petition to urge voting against Leslie Russell, NYS Attorney General--who opposed women's rights and whose recommendation was blocking women's rights legislation in New York State. She also appears in a History of Education publication. Mary was censured for criticizing a superintendent of schools. Forest Hill Cemetery 27B, Lot 1296 2201 Oneida Street, Utica, NY 13501 Oneida 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

Hannah I. Talcott Howland (1808–1867) Hannah was born and raised in a Quaker family in Sherwood, NY and is best recognized for her work as an abolitionist. The home she shared with her husband, Slocum, was a well documented safe house on the Underground Railroad. Former slaves were provided safe passage to Canada. After the war ended, Hannah and Slocum sold land to former slaves, helping several families settle in their community. Her example supported her own children's notable achievements in the area of abolition and suffrage. Howland Cemetery ​ Sherwood Road (42A), Aurora, NY 13206 Cayuga County Learn More

May Malone Stalter (1858–1915) May was one of the founding members of the Pittsford Political Equality Club, formed in 1902. The first Political Equality Club was formed in 1885 at the Rochester home of Mary Anthony (sister of Susan). These clubs worked not only on securing women the right to vote, but also on other issues of women’s equality. In Rochester that included gaining the right for women to be admitted to the University of Rochester, providing legal assistance to women in need, and improving working conditions for women. While Rochester was the center of suffrage activity in that region, the movement included Political Equality Clubs in Pittsford, Charlotte, Chili, Churchville, Irondequoit, and Geneva. May was one of the five founding members of the Pittsford Club who died before the 19th Amendment was ratified. She, along with nine other founders are buried in Pittsford Cemetery between East Avenue and Washington Road. From her obituary in the Fairport Herald-Mail: Wednesday, June 9, 1915. "She was a very bright woman, keeping up in all the latest literature, and had studied several different languages." (courtesy of www.townofpittsford.org/19thAcentennial) Pittsford Cemetery K 112 38 Washington Road, Pittsford, NY 14534 Monroe County Learn More

Huldah Mary Loomis (1886–1976) Huldah was born at Locust Grove, near Port Leyden, NY. She attended Syracuse University for 2 years and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. Later, she trained at the Cornell School of Nursing in New York City, eventually being employed as a registered private nurse. Huldah was very involved in the suffrage movement, serving as President of the local Equal Franchise League and a leader of the Port Leyden Woman’s Suffrage Club. She spoke at the Lewis County Suffrage Convention in 1915, providing a report on the club’s work. Locust Grove Cemetery ​ Route 12D, Port Leyden, NY 13433 Lewis County Learn More

James Lees Laidlaw (1868–1932) James married Harriet Burton Laidlaw, who was an active in women's rights. He became involved and went on to being president of the New York State Men's League for Women Suffrage from 1910 to 1920. James then went on to become president of the National Men's League. Green-Wood Cemetery Section 172, Lot 13406 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Kings County Learn More

Katherine (Kate) Downs Randolph (1879-1946) Katherine was a Virginia native and long time resident of The Bronx. She arrived in New York just before the Great Migration, the wave of over six million African Americans who left the South for the North and West during the World War I era until the 1970s. She attended the 1913 Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs convention. This fifth annual gathering of the umbrella organization for all NYS African American Clubs was held in Buffalo, NY. The group focused on programs to assist young black women and support for Harriet Tubman. After Tubman's death, the 1913 meeting was dedicated to education and suffrage for women of color. While her exact contributions from this point on have not been documented it has been stated that she continued to "champion for suffrage and the rights of African American women." If you know more about Kate, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Woodlawn Cemetery Cosmos Range 8, Grave 24 4199 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470 Bronx County Learn More

Alice May DuBois Deal (1872–1956) Alice was active in Ontario County in the Unity Club, the Equal Suffrage League, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She had been active in musical circles, as an Organist at Methodist Church for 50 years, and as a teacher beginning at the No. 8 school in Victor. Alice transferred to the high school department in 1895. 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 7, Lot 18, Grave 3 1518 NY-444, Victor, NY 14564 Ontario County Learn More

Katharine Bowden Cunningham (1890–1972) At just 23 years old, Katharine reforms the dormant Political Equality Club of Glens Falls in 1914, and is elected President. She is then elected Vice Leader of Warren County Suffrage under Susan M. Bain, former president and co-founder of the original PECGF. In 1915, Katherine was vice president, and served on the finance committee. Meetings were often held at the Bowden family home on Maple Street, where her mother, Margaret McEchron Bowden was also active in the cause. Under Katharine’s leadership, the club participated in the June 1914 Suffrage Parade in Albany. “The Political Equality Club of Glens Falls had the largest delegation in line in the big suffrage procession in Albany Saturday. The local suffragettes led by Miss Catharine Bowden, president of the club, made a fine showing. More than 500 women marched in the parade, the first of its kind in the Capital district, and later a mass meeting was held in Odd Fellows’ hall, during which addresses were delivered by Mrs. [Gertrude] Brown, president of the New York Suffragette [sic] association; Miss Elsie Lincoln Vandergift, of Colorado, Mrs. [Harriet Burton] Laidlaw, George Foster Peabody, James Less Laidlaw, president of the National Men’s League; and Miss Florence Roberts. Mrs. Katherine H. Gavit presided.” Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY Warren County). June 8, 1914. P.5. Bio by Tisha Dolton. Pine View Cemetery Wah-tah-wah, Row 1C, Plot 64 21 Quaker Road, Queensbury, NY, 12804 Warren County Learn More

Lucy Popenhusen (1893–1976) Lucy Popenhusen was a member of The Grange, WCTU, and the Ladies Aid Society. She was among the women who voted in 1917. Lucy and her family were very active Quakers. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. North Farmington Friends Cemetery Section 5, Row 15 250 Sheldon Road, Farmington, NY 14425 Ontario County Learn More

Eliza Wright Osborne (1830–1911) Eliza followed in the footsteps of her mother, Martha Coffin Wright, who together with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and her aunt, Lucretia Mott, had called the first Women's Suffrage Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. After her marriage to farm machinery manufacturer David M. Osborne, with whom she had four children, she devoted her prodigious energies to both her household and the fight to enfranchise women, hosting regular meetings at her Auburn, NY, home with Anthony, Stanton, and other leaders in the movement. A witty and persuasive writer, Eliza was also active in promoting education and the arts. Among those she inspired to public service were her son, prison reformer Thomas Mott Osborne, and her grandson Lithgow Osborne, a diplomat and environmentalist. She held leadership positions in women's suffrage organizations until her death at age 81, nine years before the passage of 19th Amendment that granted American women the right to vote. Bio by: Nikita Barlow Fort Hill Cemetery Section: Morning Side, Lot 21-22, Grave 8 19 Fort Street, Auburn, NY 13021 Cayuga County Learn More

Clara Lemlich Shavelson (Goldman) (1886–1982) "The manufacturer has a vote; the bosses have votes; the foremen have votes, the inspectors have votes. The working girl has no vote." - Clara Lemlich, 1912 Clara is most famous as a labor organizer—in 1909 she was the first to call for the strike that became known as the garment workers' Uprising of 20,000. A founder of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Clara fought sexism among labor union men. She explained to them that they would never succeed without engaging women workers. She was also a committed suffragist. She and Leonora O'Reilly cofounded the Wage Earners Suffrage League in New York City, which contributed to organizing working women to finally win the vote in New York in 1917. Clara was a devoted Communist, and a radical leader throughout her entire life. In 1917 she led a kosher meat boycott in New York City, then a rent strike in 1919. In 1929 she cofounded the United Council of Working-Class Women, which later separated from the Communist Party and changed its name to the Progressive Women's Councils. Annelise Orleck, her biographer, writes: "With Clara Shavelson as its president, the Progressive Women's Councils mounted a meat boycott that shut down forty-five hundred New York City butcher shops. Though in New York the strike was centered in Jewish and African-American neighborhoods, it soon spread to Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and several towns in Pennsylvania, involving women of all races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds." Clara lived her last years in a nursing home in California, where she organized the orderlies. Bio by Rachel B. Tiven. New Montefiore Cemetery Block: 8 Row: D Grave: 9 Section: 3, Society: IWO 1180 Wellwood Avenue, West Babylon, NY 11704 Suffolk County Learn More

Anna Mowry Holmes (1809–1875) Anna and her husband, Henry Holmes, were abolitionists who allowed their house in Washington County, NY to be used as part of the route along the Underground Railroad. She was elected to the Advisory Counsel for the Fourth Judicial District from Greenwich, NY, serving alongside Susan B. Anthony. If you know more about her, you can help us tell her story. Please use our Add a Suffragist form to submit your information. Greenwich Cemetery Plot D104 16 County Road 52, Greenwich, NY 12834 Washington County Learn More

Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) Oreola was an American activist for suffrage, author, and poet in the early twentieth century. Devoted to the suffrage cause, she worked alongside famous suffragists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay. Ida Husted Harper, who wrote the introduction to Banner Bearers, commended Oreola for her modesty and lack of interest in the limelight, which was very much in line with the self-sacrificing attitude that Haskell attributed to suffragists in her works. Her quiet, efficient, hardworking attitude was also noted in an interview she had with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1915, as a prime example of the faceless army of diligent suffragists who worked behind the scenes. Alongside her suffrage activism and high society work (predominantly philanthropy), Oreola was an auditor and recording secretary of the New York Federation for Women's Clubs. Though her contributions to the suffrage movement in New York have not garnered much attention from historians, her plethora of appearances in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper suggest that she was a well-known and respected figure of the time. Green-Wood Cemetery Lot 8862 Section 33 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Kings County Learn More

Susan Hunt Dixwell Miller (1845–1924) Susan began her activism as a founding member of the Banks Brigade when she was still a teenager. Founded in 1861, the Banks Brigade was a group of daughters from elite Cambridge and Boston families who met weekly to sew clothing and bandages for Union soldiers. After the Civil War, the group continued their social and charitable activities renaming the club The Bee. In 1867, Susan Dixwell married Gerrit Smith Miller, grandson of abolitionist Gerrit Smith, first cousin to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan, through her social activism, was an active participant of the women's suffrage movement. Peterboro Cemetery ​ Peterboro Road, Peterboro, NY 13134 Madison County Learn More