Honor Roll
WestportREADS “Our Vote, Our Future”
Suffrage workers sitting outside the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association’s headquarters for a Hartford Courant photographer (c. 1912-17). Courtesy, Connecticut State Library, CWSA Records.
The names of the women listed here were active in Westport’s Votes for Women campaign.
Until now, their given names, faces and identities were unknown; more await to be revealed. Then there are those who did not live to see the federal government grant female citizens the right to vote, changing the lives of future generations of American women.
Some descended from families with ancestral ties to the area; others were first-generation Americans or recently arrived immigrants, new to town or summer residents. There were differences in education, wealth and religion—Quaker, Methodist, Congregational, Catholic and Jewish. Also their families represented an array of occupations from farmers and truckers, to bankers and physicians, to artists and plumbers. Several women were property owners, businesspeople and artists in their own right.
The convergence of their rich diverse paths through suffrage gave shape to our burgeoning town.
Ballin, Mabel Croft (Mrs. Hugo Ballin) 1887-1958
Banks, Grace Alberta St. John (Mrs. Stephen J. Banks) 1869-1956
Berrell, Rose Bendit (Mrs. George Barton Berrell) 1863-1929
Blakeslee, Mary E. Ellyson (Mrs. E.W. Blakeslee) 1881-1931
Bordon, Hope Lewis (Mrs. Wm. Allanson Bordon) 1889-1955
Bowles, Dorothy (daughter, George W. Bowles) 1895-?
Bradley, Elizabeth Ella Babbitt (Mrs. Daniel B. Bradley) 1886-?
Crawford, Sarah Buek (Mrs. John C. Crawford) 1876-1949
Cutler, Amelia MacDonald (Mrs. Charles C. Cutler) 1882-1947
Day, Frances Stevens (Mrs. Loren T. Day) 1883-1950
Dickson, Lulla Bell Taylor(Mrs. W. D. Dickson) 1880-1965
Dodge, Sara Francis Spang (Mrs. Robert Leftwich Dodge) 1873-1963
Dolge, Mabel Lloyd (Mrs. Carl A. Dolge) 1886-1954
Dove, Florence Dorsey (Mrs. Arthur G. Dove) 1874-1929
Fable, Agnes I. Parry (Mrs. Charles Fable) 1853-1938
Fuller, Emily Boylan (Mrs. Robert W. Fuller) 1874-1923
Gardin, Laura (Mrs. James Earl Fraser) 1889-1966
Griffith, Mrs. L. ?-?
Harris, Esther Alsop (Mrs. Chandler P. Harris) 1876-1955
Howard, Lila Audubon Wheelock (Mrs. Oscar Howard) 1890-1986
Hubbell, Grace M. Goodsell (Mrs. Frederick B. Hubbell) 1874-1943
Krause, Bertha Fresenius (Mrs. Adolphe Krause) ?-1917
Linde, Margaret “Aline” Corey Roper (Mrs. Ossip Linde) 1882-1928
Long, Alice Bailey 1885-1924
Luther, Grace Montegu (Mrs. Mark Luther) 1882-1973
McFarland, Ruth (daughter, Dr. David McFarland) 1893-1942
McLaury, Dorothy R. (Mrs. Frank H. McLaury) 1888-1928
McLaury, Emily Rose (sister, Dr. Frank H. McLaury) 1862-1945
MacDonell, Catherine “Catie” A. Walsh (Mrs. Angus Peter MacDonell) 1874–1915
MacKenzie, Caroline Maria Weeks (Mrs. Kenneth MacKenzie) 1857-1936
MacKenzie, Rev. Kenneth 1843-1953
Marchand, Alice H. Schwartz(Mrs. John Norval Marchand) 1868-1938
Marchand, Hester “Hessie” Young McLean (Mrs. Norval Marchand) 1849-1924
Mazzanovich, Ann Waters Holden (Mrs. Lawrence Mazzanovich) 1871-1941
Mercure, Mrs. George ?-?
Mills, Lucille H. ?-?
Mitchill, Agnes Lewis (Mrs. Neil Reed Mitchill) 1865-1934
Mitchill, Natalie (daughter, Neil R. Mitchill; Mrs. Oliver Berry Burr) 1890-1974
Mitchill, Marjorie (daughter, Neil R. Mitchill; Mrs. Kenneth G. MacKenzie) 1889-1980
Mohler, Mary “Mollie” Hurlbutt 1889-1955
Nash, Anna Barbara Ebel (Mrs. Edward Colt Nash) 1889-1954
Newton, Belinda Jane Shattuck (Mrs. Joseph D. Newton) 1842-1921
Perkins, Margaret “Winnie” Whitmore (Mrs. Donald Gilbert Perkins) 1898-1982
Potter, Sarah Linzee (daughter, Bishop Henry Codman Potter; Mrs. Edwin Tatham) 1868-1940
Prentice, Helen Grace Norton (Mrs. George Bassett Prentice) 1865-1943
Prizer, Matilde “Nellie” Spang (Mrs. Charles Prizer) 1872-1939
Sachs, Roe Silvia Slomansky (Mrs. David Sachs) 1880-1957
Sherwood, Edith Very (Mrs. Roland G. Sherwood) 1866-1945
Sherwood, Edna Rogers Mason (Mrs. Harry R. Sherwood) 1884-1952
Sherwood, Harry Roston 1873-1966
Taylor, Efleda A. Whiting (Mrs. Charles Francis Taylor) 1872-?
Taylor, Katherine “Kate” Evelyn (Mrs. Edward C. Birge) 1865-by 1940
Thayer, Marie Elizabeth “Mia” Dickie (Mrs. John Adams Thayer) 1872-1943
Toquet, Nellie Wheeler Bradley (Mrs. Benjamin Louis Toquet) 1872-1939
Wakeman, Harriet “Hattie” Nash (Mrs. Wm. Burritt Wakeman) 1872-1957
Wallace, Mrs. T. N. ?-?
Wheeler, Julia A. Bradley (Mrs. Charles B. Wheeler) 1841-1927
Willis, Lucille M. Hodgson(Mrs. Ralph Troth Willis) 1873-?
Wood, Annie W. Nash (Mrs. William Janeway Wood) 1869-1963
Wright, Ann Boylan (Mrs. George Hand Wright) 1878-1954
View of 1913 parade at Fifth Avenue and Broadway. Courtesy, Dr. Kenneth Florey.