Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, who lived in New York City and Long Island, was a strategist, organizer, and major financial supporter of the Suffrage Movement.
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
–Pursuits/Activities: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Historic People
We recognize women’s heritage in New York State and others associated with the history of the women’s right to vote and those people who made it happen.
Lillie Devereux Blake
–Pursuit/Activity: Suffrage
Lillie Devereux Blake was a writer, reporter, and suffragette who signed the 1876 Centennial Women’s Rights Declaration.
Sarah Birdsall Otis Edey
–Pursuit/Activity: Suffrage
A resident of New York City and Bellport, Long Island, Sarah Birdsall Otis Edey was a leader in the suffrage cause.
Margaret Fuller
–Pursuit/Activity: Women's Rights
Margaret Fuller was a Transcendentalist, women’s rights advocate, and first woman reporter, foreign correspondent, and war correspondent for the Roman Revolution.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
–Pursuits/Activities: Abolitionism, Suffrage
Matilda Joslyn Gage was a suffragist, Native American activist, an abolitionist, freethinker, and a prolific author, who “was born with a hatred of oppression.”
Sarah J. Smith Thompson Garnet
–Pursuits/Activities: AfAm Rights, Suffrage
Sarah J. Smith Thompson Garnet was the first Black woman in New York City to be named as a principal. She served as a teacher and principal for almost 40 years.
Horace Greeley
–Pursuits/Activities: Abolitionism, Unionism, Women's Rights
Horace Greeley was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune and briefly served as a congressman from New York.
Louisine Elder Havemeyer
–Pursuits/Activities: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Louisine Elder Havemeyer of New York City and Islip, Long Island was a militant suffragist. She was a suffragist speaker, activist, and contributor.
Hester C. Jeffrey
–Pursuit/Activity: Suffrage
Hester C. Jeffrey was an African-American activist, suffragist, and community organizer in Rochester, New York, and New York City.
Rosalie Gardiner Jones
–Pursuit/Activity: Suffrage
Rosalie Jones, a tireless Long Island suffragist, was famous for doing the unusual and unexpected.
Edna Buckman Kearns
–Pursuit/Activity: Suffrage
Edna Buckman Kearns was a grassroots suffrage organizer in New York City and Long Island, best known for her “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon.
Ruth Carpenter Litt
–Pursuit/Activity: Suffrage
Ruth Carpenter Litt, a Patchogue, Long Island, suffragist, was an innovative farmer and wealthy landowner who went on to become a major political force.