57 Biographical Sketches of Washington Suffragists Now Available!

Washingtonians answered the call and have completed 57 biographical sketches of Washington women suffragists for the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement, a crowdsourced biographical database of over 3,500 suffragists nationwide.

This was a grassroots effort with research by students, historians, League of Women Voters members, retired software engineers, professors, research hobbyists and reference librarians.

For your convenience, here is a list of the 57 Washington suffragists who have (or will have) biographies in this database. (Please note that some biographies have not been uploaded yet and are awaiting links)

1. Ida Olsen Abelset

2. Mrs. Rose Ascherman

3. Ida Agnes Baker

4. Mrs. Flora Spangler Bash

5. Annie Brown

6. Mary Olney Brown

7. O'Rilla B. Willett Carmichael

8. Mrs. Sophie L W Clark

9. Nena Jolidon Croake

10. Mrs. Dora W Cryderman

11. Fannie Leake Cummings

12. Emily Inez Denny

13. Emma Smith DeVoe (biography 1) (biography 2)

14. Dr. Cora Eaton Smith

15. Mrs Edward P. Fick

16. Mabel Fontron (biography 1) (biography 2)

17. Rosabell Glass

18. Emma Glenn

19. Mrs. Anna E Goodwin

20. Mrs. Alice M. Grover

21. Mrs. Margaret Heyes Hall

22. Carrie Hill

23. Mrs. Silvia A Hunsicker

24. Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton

25. Mrs Lucie F Isaacs

26. Edith DeLong Jarmuth

27. Linda Jennings

28. Jennie Jewett

29. Luema Greene Johnson

30. Helen Kangley

31. Lucy Kangley

32. Dr. Sarah Kendall

33. Genevra Lake

34. Ellen Leckenby

35. Elizabeth Lord

36. Virginia Mason

37. Mattie Cecilia McGregor

38. Hester Jane Miller

39. Mrs. Margaret C. Munns

40. Mrs. Martha Offerdahl

41. Mary G O'Meara

42. Adelia Parker

43. Helen Benson Perkins

44. Mrs. Margaret B. Platt

45. Eleanor M. Rininger

46. Mrs. Phebe A Ryan

47. Bernice A Sapp

48. Bessie Savage

49. Dr. Anna Scott

50. Georgia B Smith

51. Katherine Smith

52. Elizabeth Palmer Spinning

53. Mrs. Ethel Stalford

54. Mrs. E M Wardall

55. Mrs. Roy Welch

56. Judge Reah Whitehead

57. Mrs. H.D. Wright