Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, 1894-1923 [microform].

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

National Women's Trade Union League of America

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The National Women’s Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) was established in Boston, MA in 1903, at the convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was organized as a coalition of working-class women, professional reformers, and women from wealthy and prominent families. Its purpose was to “assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions necessary for healthful and efficient work and to obtain a just reward for such work.” ...

Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955

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Maud Wood Park (January 25, 1871 – May 8, 1955) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1887 she graduated from St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, after which she taught for eight years before attending Radcliffe College. While there she married Charles Edward Park. She graduated from Radcliffe, where she was one of only two students who supported suffrage for women, in 1898. In 1900 she attended the National American Women Suffrage...

Wells, Marguerite M. (Marguerite Milton), 1872-1959

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Wells, a suffrage leader, was president of the Minnesota League of Women Voters (1922-1932) and president of the National league (1934-1944). From the description of Papers, 1895-1959 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006894 ...

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931

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Ida A. Husted Harper, née Ida A. Husted, (born Feb. 18, 1851, Fairfield, Ind., U.S.—died March 14, 1931, Washington, D.C.), journalist and suffragist, remembered for her writings in the popular press for and about women and for her contributions to the documentation of the woman suffrage movement. Ida Husted married Thomas W. Harper, a lawyer, in 1871 and settled in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her husband became a prominent attorney and politician and an associate of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, a...

McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945

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Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch (June 4, 1862 – April 20, 1945) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and reformer. She actively lobbied for women's suffrage at the local, state, and national levels as a leader in the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Chicago Political Equality League, and National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was the first woman elected Justice of the Peace in Illinois. Born in 1862 in Ransomville, New York as Catherine Gouger Waugh, she entered Rockford Colleg...

International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Conference

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Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, invited representatives of suffrage societies from other countries to NAWSA's 1902 annual convention in Washington. Representatives from ten countries decide to form a loose international union, which formally became the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the second meeting, held in Berlin two years later. IWSA, which later became the International Alliance of Women, held its "First Quinquennial IWSA Meetin...

Women's Political Union of New Jersey

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Pillsbury, Charles Stinson, 1878-1939

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Women's Freedom League

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Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Formed in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. From the description of National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 bulk (1890-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979907 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in 1890 with the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA fought for complete political ...

Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Van Sant, Marian.

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Women's Co-operative Alliance (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Republican Women's National Executive Committee.

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Clapp, Moses E. (Moses Edwin), 1851-1929

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Woman's Community Council (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Moller, Bertha.

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World peace foundation

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In 1910, textbook magnate Edwin Ginn founded the International School of Peace in Boston, renamed the World Peace Foundation shortly thereafter. The World Peace Foundation was founded with the express purpose of educating and mobilizing public opinion towards the cause of peace. Early trustees of the foundation included Edwin Mead, founder of The New England Magazine; Sarah L. Arnold, dean of Simmons College; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University; and Joseph Swain, president of Swa...

Ramsey County Suffrage Association.

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League of Women Voters of Minnesota

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The League of Women Voters of Minnesota (LWVM) was organized in October 1919 in meetings called by the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Clara Ueland served as its first president, and after a few months she was succeeded by Marguerite Wells. The Minnesota League worked closely with the National League of Women Voters (LWV), which was organized at the same time, and with local Minnesota Leagues functioning in the congressional districts. The records reflect the inter...

Lind, John, 1854-1930

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John Lind was born in 1854 in Sweden and emigrated to Minnesota in 1868. From a career as a lawyer he went on to become the first Swedish-born American elected to the United States House of Representatives. In 1898 he was elected governor of Minnesota on the Democratic-Populist ticket. In 1913 he was appointed as Woodrow Wilson's personal representative to Mexico, where he served until 1914. Following his return he resumed his law practice and was a supporter of Wilson's foreign policy and later...

League to Enforce Peace (U.S.)

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The League's program, adopted upon its organization in June 1915, was to support the United States as it joined the League of Nations at the end of the first World War. The League was criticized by pacifist organizations for its apparent advocacy of the use of force to enforce peace. Former President William Howard Taft was the League's President. From the description of Collection, 1915-1921. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28329383 League to Enf...

Stevens, Rene E. H.

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Woman Suffrage Club of Minneapolis.

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Political Equality Club of Minneapolis.

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League of Nations

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Stockwell, Maud Conkey, ca. 1860-1958.

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Minneapolis Council of Americanization.

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Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission

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The Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission was an American woman's suffrage organization formed by Carrie Chapman Catt in March 1917 using funds willed for the purpose by Miriam Leslie. The organization helped promote the cause of suffrage through greater visibility in the public eye and through education. It was estimated that around $933,728.88 of the funds left by Leslie went directly to the cause of women's suffrage. When Miriam Leslie died in 1914, she put into her will that Carrie Chapman Cat...

Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association

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Farmer, Eugenia Berniaud, 1835-1924.

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Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Woman Suffrage Publishing Company.

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Washburn, William D. (William Drew), 1831-1912

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Minnesota Prohibition State Committee.

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Woman's Franchise League of Indiana

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Woman's suffrage organization founded ca. 1911. After the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the group reconvened as the League of Women Voters. From the description of Records, 1914-1919. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27697202 ...

Saint Paul Political Equality Club.

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Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

Shutter, Marion D. (Marion Daniel), 1853-1939

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Universalist minister. B.A. College of Wooster, 1876; B.D. Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1881. Pastor, Olivet Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn. (1881-1886). Entered Universalist ministry in 1886. Served as minister of Universalist Church of the Redeemer, Minneapolis (1886-1938). From the description of Papers, 1886-1939 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368157 Marion Daniel Shutter (1853-1939) graduated from Wooster ...

Hennepin County Woman Suffrage Association.

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Hurd, Ethel Edgerton, 1845-1929.

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Ohio Woman Suffrage Association

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Hurd, Anna

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Young Men's Christian Association (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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Kellog, Frank Billings, 1856-1937.

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Minnesota League of Women Voters

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Equal Suffrage Association of Minneapolis.

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Burnquist, J. A. A. (Joseph Alfred Arner), 1879-1961

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Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association

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The MWSA was founded in 1881 to coordinate statewide and local efforts to obtain universal equal suffrage for women. After the Minnesota legislature ratified the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in September, 1919, it reorganized to form the Minnesota League of Women Voters. From the description of Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, 1894-1923 [microform]. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 313842893 The Minnesota Woman,...

Schmahl, Julius A. (Julius August), 1867-1955

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South Dakota Universal Franchise League.

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Minnesota Commission of Public Safety

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The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety was established by the legislature in April of 1917 (Laws 1917 c261), shortly after the United States entered World War I. The seven-member commission (governor, attorney general, and five persons appointed by the governor) was given broad powers to ensure the protection of persons and property, the defense of the state and the nation, and the application of the state's resources to "successful prosecution" of the war. During its...

Woman's Welfare League (St. Paul, Minn.).

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Johnson, Magnus, 1871-1936

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Johnson was a member of the Minnesota legislature (1914, 1916, 1918); U.S. senator (1923-1924); U.S. congressman (1933-1934); candidate for governor of Minnesota (1922, 1926, 1936). He was active in the Progressive movement, the National Nonpartisan League, and the Farmer-Labor party. From the description of Magnus Johnson papers, 1923-1941. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122474163 ...

Hall, Alice Ames.

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Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919

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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Born in northern England in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1847, her family left England and immigrated to the United States. In their new country, the Shaws made several moves. After settling in the bustling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, they uprooted again, this time ...

Preus, J. A. O. (Jacob Aall Ottesen), 1883-1961

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Sageng, Ole O., 1872-1963

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Ole O. Sageng was born in Osterdalen, Norway, December 1, 1871. He came to the United States with his family in 1878, settling near Dalton in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. He graduated from Fergus Falls (Minnesota) High School in 1895, and attended Augsburg College, Minneapolis. Sageng taught rural schools in Otter Tail County and in Grand Forks County, North Dakota. He farmed for many years near Dalton, and was chairman of the Rural Credit Board from 1925 to 1931. Sagen...

Jones, Effie McCollum.

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Ueland, Clara, 1860-1927

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Woman Citizen.

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American Committee of Minneapolis

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Minnesota Democratic Association (St. Paul, Minn.).

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Michigan Equal Suffrage Association.

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Nelson, Knute, 1843-1923

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Knute Nelson was born in Vosse Elven, Norway, on February 2, 1843. In 1849 he and his widowed mother emigrated to the United States, settling first in Chicago (1849-1850), then in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment (1861-1864) during the Civil War. Following the war he was graduated from the Albion Academy and studied law in a Madison, Wisconsin, law office, being admitted to the bar in 1867 and then serving as a representative in the ...

Christianson, Theodore, 1883-1948

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National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Founded in 1904 under the leadership of Edgar G. Murphy, Felix Adler, Samuel McCune Lindsay, Owen Lovejoy, and A.J. McKelway. Its aims were legislation, investigation, and publicity to promote the interests of children. From the description of Records, 1914-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122421727 The National Child Labor Committee was formed after a conference held in New York between Edgar Gardner Murphy's Alabama Child Labor Commi...

Nelson, Julia Lynn

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New York State Woman Suffrage Party

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The New York State Woman Suffrage Party was a branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association which was formed in 1890 to reunite the suffrage movement and to coordinate the suffrage campaign. From the description of New York State Woman Suffrage Party records, 1915-1919, bulk (1917). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122466571 From the guide to the New York State Woman Suffrage Party records, 1915-1919, 1917, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts...

Socialist Party (U.S.)

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The Socialist Party (U.S.) was founded in 1901, bringing together moderate socialists from the Social Democratic Party, and dissident members of the Socialist Labor Party. In 1936 the ongoing differences between the “Old Guard” and “Militant” factions, resulted in a split, with the Militant group retaining the SP name and much of the membership, while the Old Guard faction retained most of the organizational and financial assets. From the guide to the Socialist Party (U.S.) Minutes, ...

Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference.

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Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...

Woman's Occupational Bureau (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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