Suffragists of the Hall

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The Suffragists listed below are all Inductees in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. After you have downloaded the form, find out more about each Inductee by clicking on their photos. 

1893:
Colorado Women Get the Right to Vote

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Suffragists of the Hall

Julia Archibald-Holmes

Julia Archibald Holmes

Julia “Anna” Archibald Holmes worked for women’s suffrage in the 1860s and 1870s, serving as secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association, helping to set up state associations and attempting to vote in 1871.

 
Dr. Alida Cornelia Avery

Dr. Alida Cornelia Avery

Dr. Alida Avery was elected the first president of the newly founded Colorado Woman Suffrage Association in 1876 and worked diligently for Colorado women’s enfranchisement.

Caroline M. Churchill

Caroline Nichols Churchill

Caroline Nichols Churchill starts publishing a magazine in 1879, later a weekly feminist newspaper named the Queen Bee, through which she advocates for women’s rights.

Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor

Baby Doe Tabor

Socialite Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor lends her name and provides office space to the suffrage movement.

 
Dr. Alida Cornelia Avery

Ellis Meredith

Known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado, suffragist Ellis Meredith writes columns in the Rocky Mountain News starting in 1889 that advocate for women’s suffrage. From 1893-1920, she works for national suffrage.

 
Elizabeth Piper Ensley

Elizabeth Ensley

Elizabeth Ensley serves as treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Suffrage Association; one of the few black women nationwide who worked within an integrated organization for women’s suffrage.

Louie Croft Boyd

Louie Croft Boyd

As a teenager living in New York, Louie Croft Boyd writes newspaper columns advocating for women’s suffrage. She moves to Colorado in 1892.

 
 
Dr. Alida Cornelia Avery

Sarah Platt-Decker

Women’s rights advocate Sarah Platt-Decker has been credited with playing a key role resulting in Colorado’s women’s enfranchisement in 1893.

 
 
Eliza Routt

Eliza Routt

The first woman registered to vote in Colorado, Eliza Routt is the inaugural First Lady of Colorado and a significant women’s rights advocate.

 
Portrait Exhibit - Molly Brown Arapahoe County Courthouse Exhibit

Margaret "Molly" Brown

After surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Margaret “Molly” Brown advocates for the rights of women working for a national suffrage amendment.

 
 
 
Caroline Spencer, MD

Dr. Caroline Spencer

One of the “Silent” Sentinels”, Dr. Caroline Spencer pickets, marches, was arrested and imprisoned for supporting women’s rights as part of the women’s suffrage movement during the early 20th century.

 
 
 
Hazel Schmoll

Hazel Schmoll

Hazel Schmoll, who later becomes Colorado’s state botanist, advocates for women’s suffrage while a teacher at Vassar College (1913-1917).

 
 
Helen Ring Robinson

Helen Ring Robinson

The first woman elected to the Colorado State Senate (1912), Helen Ring Robinson advocates for women’s suffrage in Eastern states and she writes Preparing Women for Citizenship in 1918.

 
 
 
 
Caroline Spencer, MD

Elizabeth "Betty" Pellett

Elizabeth “Betty” Eyre Pellett marches as a suffragist in New York to advocate for women’s rights and the 19th Amendment.

 
 
 
 
Hazel Schmoll

Elizabeth Hickock Robbins Stone

“I have waited a lifetime for this privilege.” — “Auntie” Stone, upon casting her vote in 1894, the first election after Colorado women won full suffrage rights.

 
 
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