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This is a list of Pennsylvania suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2021)

Conventions

• Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester in 1852.
• 5th National Women's Rights Convention, held in Philadelphia 1854.

Groups

• Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA), formed in 1904.
• Chester County Equal Suffrage Association.
• Citizen's Suffrage Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1872.
• Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, formed on February 21, 1910.
• Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia.
• Equal Rights Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1866.
• Equal Franchise Federation of Pittsburgh.
• Lackawanna County Equal Franchise League.
• Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League (Pittsburgh).
• Northwestern Pennsylvania Equal Franchise Association.
• Pennsylvania College Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1908.
• Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage, formed in March 1912.
• Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, created in 1869.
• Woman Suffrage Party of Chester County.
• Woman Suffrage Society of Philadelphia, formed in 1892.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
• Women's Suffrage Society of Monroe County.

Suffragists

• 

  Lida Stokes Adams.
• Wilmer Atkinson (Philadelphia).
• Rachel Foster Avery (Philadelphia).
• Mary E. Bakewell (Pittsburgh).
• Flora Snyder Black (Meyersdale).
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (Philadelphia).
• Jennie Bronenberg (Philadelphia).
• Mary A. Burnham (Philadelphia, Powleton).
• Jane Campbell (Philadelphia).
• Annie D. Chisholm (Huntington).
• Lavinia Nelson Clarke (Erie).
• Jennie Cleveland (Erie).
• Isaac Clothier (Pittsburgh).
• JoAnna Connell (Erie).
• Cora Crawford (Philadelphia).
• Addie Whiteman Dickerson (Philadelphia).
• Lavinia Dock (Fairfield).
• Alice Dunbar Nelson (Philadelphia).
• Rose Fishstein (Philadelphia).
• Augusta Fleming (Erie).
• Margaretta Forten (Philadelphia).
• Gertrude Fuller (Pittsburgh).
• Mary Grew.
• Reba Gomborov (Philadelphia).
• Angelina Grimké (Philadelphia).
• Sarah Moore Grimké (Philadelphia).
• Louise Hall (Philadelphia).
• Frances Harper (Philadelphia).
• Charles T. Heaslip.
• Kate C. Heffelfinger (Shamokin).
• Elizabeth McShane Hilles.
• Matilda Hindman.
• Liliane Stevens Howard (Philadelphia).
• Hannah Clothier Hull (Pittsburgh).
• Jane Hunt (Philadelphia).
• Mary Ingham (Philadelphia).
• Harriet C. Johnson {Philadelphia).
• Caroline Katzenstein (Philadelphia).
• Jennie E. Kennedy (Pittsburgh).
• Julian Kennedy (Pittsburgh).
• Alice Paisley Flack Kiernan (Somerset).
• Caroline Burnham Kilgore (Philadelphia).
• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (Pittsburgh).
• Mary Flinn Lawrence (Pittsburgh).
• Dora Kelly Lewis (Philadelphia).
• Elizabeth McShane (Philadelphia).
• Lucy Kennedy Miller (Pittsburgh).
• Winifred Barron Meek Morris (Pittsburgh).
• Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia).
• Lucretia Mott (Philadelphia).
• Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Philadelphia).
• Mary H. Newbold.
• Mary Irvin Thompson Orlady (Huntington).
• Anna M. Orme.
• Hannah J. Patterson (Pittsburgh).
• Charlotte Woodward Pierce (Philadelphia).
• Odessa Hunter Plate (Erie County).
• Jane Weir Pressly (Erie).
• Ellen H. E. Price (Philadelphia).
• Margaret Wilson Pryor (Philadelphia).

  

• Sarah Pugh.
• Harriet Forten Purvis (Philadelphia).
• Robert Purvis (Philadelphia).
• Katherine S. Reed.
• Jennie Bradley Roessing (Pittsburgh).
• Katharine Wentworth Ruschenberger (Chester County).
• Helen Stone Schluraff (Erie County).
• Edna Schoyer (Pittsburgh).
• Marion Margery Scranton.
• Helen Semple (Titusville).
• Eliza Kennedy Smith (Pittsburgh), also known as Eliza Jane Kennedy.
• Mary Spencer (Erie).
• Althea Staples (Monroe County).
• Lily Helen Dupuy Steele (Pittsburgh).
• Sara Yorke Stevenson (Philadelphia).
• Jane Swisshelm (Pittsburgh).
• Martha Gibbons Thomas (Chester County).
• Eliza Sproat Turner (Philadelphia).
• Ellen Winsor (Haverford).
• Mary Winsor (Haverford).
• Mary M. Wolfe (Philadelphia).
• Mabel Woodward Wright (Erie).
• Emma Writt (Pittsburgh).

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Samuel Ashbridge.
• Dimner Beeber (Philadelphia).
• William Cameron Sproul.

Places

• Justice Bell on display at Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge).

Publications

• Woman's Progress, first published in 1893.

Suffragists campaigning in Pennsylvania

• Susan B. Anthony.
• Henry Browne Blackwell.
• Mary C. C. Bradford.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Mary Dennett.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
• Laura Gregg.
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale.
• Laura M. Johns.
• Clara Schlee Laddey.
• Nellie McClung.
• Inez Milholland.
• Alice Paul.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Laura de Turczynowicz.
• Ruza Wenclawska.
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

Antisuffragists

Groups

• Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS), formed in 1911.

See also

• List of historical Pennsylvania women
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
• Women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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External links

• Honoring Our Suffragists of Somerset County, PA

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• Suffragists from Pennsylvania
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