Women's suffrage in Nevada
Attorney Felice Cohn wrote a women's suffrage resolution that was accepted and passed the Nevada Legislature.
Martin and Mabel Vernon traveled around the state in a rented Ford Model T, covering thousands of miles.
Nevada suffragists aided other states' campaigns and worked towards securing a federal suffrage amendment.
[1] On February 16, 1869, Assemblyman Curtis J. Hillyer introduced a bill for equal women's suffrage in the Nevada Assembly.
[2] In addition to introducing this bill, Hillyer's speech about women deserving equal rights became famous and was printed in full and discussed in the press.
[2] Hillyer's equal suffrage amendment bill for women passed the Nevada Legislature that year.
[6] Senator M. S. Bonnifield of Humboldt County and journalist, John I. Ginn, served as chair and secretary for the event.
[8] Gordon and Stevens campaigned in Carson, Elko, Virginia City and in mining towns throughout Humboldt County.
[10] Gordon was given the Assembly Chamber in the Nevada Capitol to speak for women's suffrage and she had "her audience spellbound.
"[3] Assemblyman Oscar Grey put forward an unsuccessful women's suffrage resolution in January 1873.
[11] In 1881, a Nevada Legislature joint legislative committee recommended amending the state constitution in favor of women's suffrage, but it doesn't gain full support.
[11] On November 30, 1894, the Lucy Stone Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League was formed in Austin, Nevada with Fannie Weller as president.
[13] On May 17, 1895 Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw visited Reno and spoke at McKissick's Opera House.
[13] Emma Smith DeVoe was sent to Nevada from the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to help canvass the state.
[14] She and her daughter, Mary Laura Williamson, also published a newspaper that promoted women's rights issues.
[13] Williamson continued to canvas Nevada counties, finding a significant part of the population was in support of women's suffrage.
[16] That year, the Nevada Legislature again fails to approve an equal suffrage bill and removed the right of women to run as school superintendents.
[17] Any suffrage work that continued was carried on by the Nevada Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and other groups.
[17] On February 4, 1911, a large group met to form the Nevada Equal Franchise Society (NEFS) with Margaret Stanislawsky as president.
[11] Attorney from Carson City, Felice Cohn, wrote the women's suffrage bill that passed in March 1911.
[22] A six-foot banner reading "Nevada, Votes for Women" was sent from New York by Mrs. Arthur Hodges to commemorate the moment.
[24] Attorney Bird Wilson, from Goldfield wrote, published, and distributed a pamphlet called "Women Under Nevada Laws.
[29] In 1913, the women's suffrage bill authored by Cohn was passed by the Nevada Legislature and would go out to a voter referendum in 1914.
[27] Ida Husted Harper wrote that the press was important in reaching potential voters in the predominantly rural and scattered state of Nevada.
[27] Martin developed a press network and wrote a weekly column that was even printed in papers who did not support suffrage.
[31] The editor of the San Francisco Bulletin gave reporter Bessie Beatty time off and expenses paid so she could do publicity work in Nevada.
[31] One of these women, Margaret Foley, a trade unionist and suffragist, visited eight mines in Nevada, "attended fifty dances, made one thousand speeches, and wore out three pairs of shoes.
[11] In 1918, Reno suffragist, Sadie D. Hurst, was endorsed by the Woman Citizens' Club in her run for Nevada Assembly.
[53] Hurst again presided, and gave a speech, thanking the men of Nevada for their support of the women in the state.
[55] In November, the Nevada Association of Women Opposed to Equal Suffrage (NAWOWS) was formed in Reno in 1914.
