Was your grandmother a North Dakota suffragist?

During the summer of 1914, a large suffrage campaign was conducted across North Dakota. The Votes for Women League led the effort, working with organizations such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Volunteers and paid field workers traversed the state organizing 200 clubs (each with 10 to 500 women), holding public rallies, raising money, publishing ads: all in an effort to convince the men that they should vote for full voting rights for women.

The measure was defeated that fall, but after the election, North Dakotans understood more about women’s voting rights. This list of key officers was published in the Fargo Forum and Daily Republican. Check and see if your grandmother was a suffragist.

North Dakota Votes for Women League 1914

State Officers

President: Mrs. Clara L. Darrow of Fargo

Vice President: Beulah Amidon of Fargo

V.P at Large: Alice Hunter of Dickinson

Cor. Sec: Ella Boise of Fargo

Rec. Sec: Mary Weible of Fargo

Treasurer: Helen de Lendrecie of Fargo

Asst. Treasurer: Emma Pierce of Fargo

Campaign Manager: Elizabeth O’Neil of Fargo

Press: Mrs. Frances Bolley and Mrs. A. S. Little

District VPs

Anna Hazen of Larimore.  

Mrs. William Falger of Devils Lake

Luella Hildreth of Fargo

Mrs. W. S. Lauder of Wahpeton

Kate Glaspell of Jamestown

Zetta Bodenstab of Bismarck

Bertha Farup of Park River

Mrs. P. M. Cole of Kenmare

Flora Burr of Bottineau  

Mrs. V. H. Stickney of Dickinson

Martha T. Tatem of Williston

Mrs. George Bingenheimer of Mandan

Mrs. Guy Grove of Crosby

Local Chairs

Abercrombie: Alma Tweete

Ambrose: Agnes De Witt

Anamoose: Mrs. L. W. Wells

Antelope: Mrs. John Schmid

Antler: Mrs. George Else  

Ardoch: Mrs. O.O. Scott  

Arvilla: Mrs. John Fadden

Baden: Mrs. E. L. Price

Balfour: Mrs. E. C. Stone  

Bantry: Mr. Clark King  

Barton: Mrs. O. Fearing  

Bathgate: Mrs. Manning

Beach: Mary J. Hudson

Belfield: Mrs. Flemington

Berwick: Mrs. N. M. Tweet

Bisbee: Mrs. I. J. Leonard

Bismarck: Fannie Quain

Bottineau: Pearl Hunter and Mrs. C. L. Hennessey

Bowbells: Julia Ellerstedt

Bowden: Mrs. H. E. Schmitt

Bowman: Mrs. R. T. Heywood

Brisbane: Lula Fleming

Brocket: Mrs. C. K. Vierlius

Buffalo: Mrs. Clark

Burleigh: Mrs. C. D. King

Buxton: Mrs. John E. Lerom

Cando : Mrs. S. F. Smith  

Carrington: Mrs. E. L. Goss

Casselton: Mrs. R. C. Kittel

Cavalier: Mrs. John Mahon

Christine: Gertrude Johnson

Churches Ferry: Mrs. H. R. Murray

Cleveland: Mrs. S. A. Welch

Columbus: Mrs. C. J. King

Conway: Mary Vorachek

Cooperstown: Mrs. M. D. Westley

Cottonwood Lake: Mrs. S. Swazi

Courtenay: Mrs. Jones

Crary: Mrs. F. R. Stevens

Crocus: Mrs. Johnson

Crystal: Mrs. Ross

Dawson: Mrs. C. E. Knapp

Dazey: Mrs. E. A. Duff

Dennybrook: Mrs. R. R. Bullis

Derick: Mrs. Humphreys

Devils Lake: Mrs. A. M. Powell

Dickinson: Mrs. Heaton and Maisie Dinsdale

Donnybrook: Mrs. W. S. McIntire

Drayton: Mrs. Wylie

Dunseith: Mrs. A. L. France

Edgeley: Miss Miracle

Edmore: Mrs. L. C. Searle

Egeland: Mrs. Charles Tufford

Ekman: Mrs. M. J. Mullins

Eldridge: Clover Streck

Ellendale: Mrs. Benjamin Porter

Emerson: Mrs. E. A. Neff

Epping: Isabelle Lykken

Fargo: Mrs. Luella Hildreth

Fairmount: Mrs. Joseph Clark

Fessenden: Mrs. H. Lyness

Flaxton: Mrs. Christian

Fordville: Ethel Rea

Forman: Mrs. D. J. Jones

Gackle: Mrs. Thomas Pettit

Galesburg: Mrs. Ed Moe

Gardens: Mrs. R. H. Fairfield

Gardner: Miss Belle Hudson

Garrison: Mrs. Leo Mahowald

Gladstone: Mrs. George Lee

Glenburn: Mrs. Mabel Laing

Glen Ullin: Mrs. J. T. Nelson

Goodrich: Mrs. O. F. Jordal

Grafton: Mrs. O. M. Omlie

Grand Forks: Mrs. Alice N. Page and Temple Irwin

Grandin: Mrs. Knight

Granville: Mrs. Jayson Geddes

Hamilton: Mrs. John McDermid

Hampden: Mrs. Hogan

Hankinson: Mrs. J. R. Jones

Hansboro: Mrs. M. Lawler

Harvey: Mrs. Aloys Wartner

Hatton: Mrs. B. Harlvorson

Hebron: Mrs. E. O. Murray

Hettinger: Mrs. J. G. Johns

Hillsboro: Mrs. Loitwood

Hope: Mrs. S. S. Shippy

Hurdsfield: Mrs. G. A. Best

Inkster: Lee Crittenden

Jamestown: Alice Paddock

Jud: Agnes Thompson

Kramer: Mrs. C. M. Thorswold

Lakota: Mrs. W. C. Hagler

La Moure: Mrs. C. I. Hutchinson

Landa: Mrs. T. T. Landa

Langdon: Mrs. Walker

Lansford: Helen Ringer

Larimore: Mrs. W. G. Morris

Lawton: Mrs. J. E. Stevens

Leal: Mrs. J. H. Flewell

Leeds: Mrs. William Burns

Leonard: Mrs. William Watt

Lidgerwood: Mrs. Phillip Wohluend

Lignite: Mrs. John J. Monson

Lisbon: Mrs. C. W. Coates

Lonetree: Mrs. John Kassens

Mandan: Mrs. T. A. Cummins

Manning: Mrs. Pearl Evans

Mapleton: Mrs. Saunders

Marmarth: Mrs. Alma MCiueen

Martin: Mrs. G. H. Varney and Mrs. J. W. Varney

Max: Mrs. E. E. Nelson

Mayville: Mrs. Mattie Robinson

Melville: Mrs. Elisabeth Spink

Michigan: Mrs. Dr. Wager

Milton: Mrs. A. R. Stewar

Minnewaukan: Mrs. Torger Sinness

Minot: Mrs. Mary Colcord

Minto: Amy Evans

Mohall: Mrs. Percy Crewe

Monango: Mrs. Maud E. Scott

Napoleon: Mrs. John Doyle

Neche: Mrs. Jones

Newberg: Mrs. H. E. Martin

New England: Miss C. A. Madsen

New Leipzig: Mrs. R. E. Shavien

New Rockford: Mrs. Julia Kellington and Mary Craig

Omemee: Mrs. Max Ebenhahn

Oriska: Mrs. C. A. Fisher

Park River: Mrs. Bertha Farup

Pembina: Mrs. Kneeshaw

Pisek: Angela Lavak

Plaza: Mrs. C. L. Holt.

Plummer: Mrs. S. S. Swenson

Portal: Mrs. E. D. Prairie

Rolette: Mrs. J. F. Alexander

Rolla: Mrs. Mary Packard

Ross: Mrs. Peter Weidert

Roth: Mrs. O. O. Lee

Rugby: Mrs. Millie Holbrook and Irene Christianson

Russell: Mrs. R. T. Wood

Ryder: Miss Aldyth Ward

Stanley: Mrs. Fred. L. Alger

St. John: Mrs. Hartgraves

St. Thomas: Mrs. E. A. Taylor

Sanborn: Helen Blake

Sanger: Lottie Shark

Sarles: Mrs. Ella Naismith

Sherwood: Mrs. Alice M. Goheen

Sheyenne: Mrs. Fisher

Silva: Mrs. C. W. Wilson

Souris: Mrs. John Thorburn

Starkweather: Mrs. M. Fassen

Steele: Mrs. S. A. Hogue

Surrey: Grace Shirley

Sutton: Mrs. O. B. Hoff

Taylor: Mrs. C. H. Silvernail

Tansom: Mrs. Peter Tansom

Tappen: Mrs. D. McKee

Thorne: Mrs. John Gray

Tioga: Minnie Thompson

Towner: Mrs. C. E. Fouts

Underwood: Mrs. Vogel

Valley City: Mary Deem

Velva: Mrs. Lee

Wahpeton: Mrs. D. R. Jones

Walhalla: Mrs. Hugh Gibson

Walum: Mrs. Elsa J. Jacobson

Warwick: Mrs. R. E. Simmons

Warsaw: Gertrude Ryan

Washburn: Mrs. C. M. Packard

Westhope: Mrs. W. A. Medaugh

Wheelock: Lillian Cooke

White Earth: Mrs. G. D. Watts

Williston: Mrs. W. H. Denny

Willow City: Mrs. N. Bough

Wilton: Mrs. Annie Durand

Wimbledon: Mrs. Robert Clendenning

Wing: Helen Wilkinson

Wishek: Mrs. J. J. Doyle

Wyndmere: Mable Andrus

York: Mrs. W. A. Onion