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Winning the Franchise Please cite as: Spinzia, Raymond E., “Winning the Franchise – Long Island Activists in the Fight for Woman’s Suffrage and Their Opponents, Long Island’s Anti-Suffragists, 2018, revised 2021.” www.spinzialongislandestates.com W i n n i n g t h e F r a n c h i s e: L o n g I s l a n d A c t i v i s t s i n t h e F i g h t f o r W o m a n’s S u f f r a g e a n d T h e i r O p p o n e n t s , L o n g I s l a n d’s A n t i - S u f f r a g i s t s 1 ″Men who disapprove of Votes for Women are divided into two classes, those who are married to women who lack intelligence and who are prone to measure other women in the same bushel with their wives, and those men whose wives are so bright that the men are afraid to give them a chance at the ballot." Dr. George Edwin Rice, DDS Maywood, 407 Middle Road, Bayport [The Suffolk County News August 23, 1913, p. 4.] 1916 Since many of house numbers cited were from the early 1900s, please be aware that they may not correspond to the present day addresses. A n t i – S u f f r a g i s t s: Backus, Harriet Ivins Davis (Mrs. Henry Clinton Backus) – vice president, Woman’s Municipal League 111 Seventh Street, Garden City; Tranquility, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton Beecher, Catherine Esther She is the daughter of Lyman Beecher of East Hampton. 86 Main Street, East Hampton The Beecher home is now the East Hampton Village Hall. Beecher residence Carnman, Mrs. Schuyler – member, Merrick chapter, New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1915 Merrick Chittenden, Alice Hill – treasurer, Brooklyn chapter, New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1901 Brooklyn Cowles, Anna Roosevelt (Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles, Sr.) She is President Theodore Roosevelt’s sister. Tranquility, East Main Street, Oyster Bay Cove; Old Gate, Farmington, CT Tranquility 2 Cravath, Agnes Huntington (Mrs. Paul Cravath) Veraton [I], Lattingtown; Veraton [II] and [III], Matinecock; Still House, Matinecock Veraton [I] Denby, Esther Jewell Strong – director, Michigan Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage Bennett Place, Amityville Denby, Thomas Garvin (aka Garvin Denby) – a founder and treasurer, Men’s Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, Michigan, 1913 Bennett Place, Amityville Hart, Lillian – secretary, Brooklyn chapter, New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1901 Brooklyn Howell, Frances C. Rogers (Mrs. Elmer Brown Howell) Little East Neck Road, Babylon Johnson, Helen Louise Kendrick (Mrs. Rossiter Johnson) – a founder, Guidon Club Thalatta Cottage, Bluff Road, Amagansett Thalatta Cottage Jones, Louise – member, New York State Anti-Suffrage Association Manor House and Jones Manor, Syosset-Cold Spring Harbor Road, Laurel Hollow Jones Manor Jones, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Oliver Livingston Jones, Sr.) – member, New York State Anti-Suffrage Association Manor House and Jones Manor, Syosset-Cold Spring Harbor Road, Laurel Hollow Manor House 3 Longfellow, Julia Livingston Delafield (Mrs. Frederick William Longfellow) She is the daughter of Maturin Livingston Delafield, Sr. of Sunswyck. – member of board, Woman Voters Anti-Suffrage Party Sunswyck, Delafield Road, Quiogue Sunswyck Macy, William Kingsland, Sr. – As chairman of the New York State Republican Committee, he vehemently opposed women in politics. 385 Ocean Avenue, Islip Macy residence Perry, Andrew J. 30 First Place, Brooklyn; 288 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Pratt, Mary Gordon Landon (Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt) Islip; East Cottage, James Street, Southampton Putnam, Carolyn Richard Haines (Mrs. William Allen Putnam, Sr.) – chair, Brooklyn chapter, New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women, 1901 Midfields, Halsey Neck Lane, Southampton Remson, Annie Pearsall Hubbard (Mrs. Jacob Remson) The Harbor, Little East Neck Road, Babylon Root, Elihu, Sr. In 1915 Harriot Stanton Blatch referred to Root and George Woodward Wickersham, Sr. as “the arch enemies of suffragist.” Mayfair, 217 Pond Lane, Southampton Mayfair Sears, Anna Wentworth Caldwell (Mrs. Joseph Hamblen Sears) The Other House, Oyster Bay Cove Road, Oyster Bay Cove 4 Ward, Justina Bayard Cutting (Mrs. George Cabot Ward) She is the daughter of William Bayard Cutting, Sr. of Westbrook Farm. Westbrook Farm, South Country Road, Great River The Cutting estate is now open to the public as the Bayard Cutting Arboretum. Westbrook Farm Wickersham, George Woodward, Sr. See Root entry for comments by Harriot Stanton Blatch about Wickersham Marshfield, Hollywood Crossing, Lawrence Marshfield S u f f r a g i s t s: Abbott, Florence Louise Call (Mrs. Henry Hurlbut Abbott) Briar Patch, Georgica Road [now, Briar Patch Road], East Hampton Adams, Maude (aka Maude Ewing Kiskadeen Adams) – member, Lake Ronkonkoma Equal Rights Suffrage Club, 1912 Sandy Garth, 310 Cenacle Road, Lake Ronkonkoma The estate is now the convent of the Sisters of Saint Regis. Sandy Garth’s guest house Arguimbau, Daniel V. – member, Babylon Suffrage Club, 1914 Babylon 5 Auchincloss, Janet House (Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss, Sr.; Mrs. Allston Boyer) Glen Cove; Ronda, Chicken Valley Road, Matinecock Rhonda Badenhop, Mrs. W. H. – vice-president, Bellmore Suffrage Club, 1916 Bellmore Baird, Marguerite – a founder and chair, supply committee, Babylon chapter, Equal Franchise Society, 1912 Babylon Baker, Mrs. C. D. – suffragist lecturer – president, Freeport Suffrage Club, 1914 Freeport Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt (Mrs. Charles Richard John Spencer–Churchill; Mrs. Louis Jacques Balsan) She is the daughter of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. – financial benefactor Idlehour [I], Idle Hour Boulevard, Oakdale; Old Fields, 6601 Route 25 A, East Norwich; Gardenside, 77 Ox Pasture Road, Southampton Gardenside, 2014 Barney, Nora Stanton Blatch (Mrs. Lee de Forest; Mrs. Morgan Barney) She is the daughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch of Shoreham. Tower Hill Road, Shoreham Baruch, Isabelle Wilcox (aka Belle Baruch) She is the daughter of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Sr. of Strandhome. – distributed suffrage leaflets Strandhome, Ocean Avenue, Bayport Strandhome Bassett, Edna – corresponding secretary, Rockville Centre Suffrage Club, 1912 Rockville Centre 6 Baxter, George White – authored clause in Wyoming constitution which extended suffrage to women Glen Cove Road, Greenvale Baxter, Perry Hamilton – president, Jamaica Woman Suffrage Club, 1909 – leader, Fourth Assembly District, Borough of Queens chapter, Woman Suffrage Party Far Rockaway Beecher, Henry Ward He is the son of Lyman Beecher of East Hampton. – president, American Woman Suffrage Association 86 Main Street, East Hampton The Beecher home is now the East Hampton Village Hall. Beecher residence Belmont, Alice Wall de Goicouria (Mrs. August Belmont III – aka Mrs. August Belmont, Jr.) – member, Islip Woman’s Suffrage Club, 1917 South Saxon Avenue, Bay Shore A. Belmont III residence Belmont, Alva Erskine Smith (Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, Sr.; Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) – suffragist author, lecturer, financial benefactor, and participated in parades – a founder and president, Political Equality Association – a founder and president, National Woman’s Party – a founder, National Women’s Suffrage Union – a founder and president, Suffrage Club of Hempstead – a founder and president, Brookholt chapter, Political Equality League, 1911 – established Brookholt agricultural School for Women – donated Sewall–Belmont House, Washington, DC, to National Woman’s Party – hosted suffrage rallies at her Newport, RI, estate Marble House – a founder, Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage – hosted suffragist leaders for rest and recuperation at her Sands Point estate, Beacon Towers Idlehour [I], Idle Hour Boulevard, Oakdale; Brookholt, Front Street, East Meadow; Beacon Towers, Sands Light Road, Sands Point Brookholt Benkard, James Gerald – member Babylon Suffrage Club, 1914 57 Prospect Street, Babylon 7 Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton (Mrs. William Henry Blatch, Jr.) – suffragist author and lecturer – a founder, Equal Franchise Society – suggested creation of “Suffrage Torch” as a symbol of liberty and freedom – a founder, Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (renamed Women’s Political Union, Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and, then, National Woman’s Party) – president, Women’s Political Union – toured Western States, lecturing on Suffrage – listed on New York League of Women Voters State Honor Roll tablet, Albany, NY Tower Hill Road, Shoreham Blatch residence Blum, Florence May Abraham (Mrs. Edward Charles Blum) Shore Acres, Penataquit Avenue, Bay Shore Shore Acres Boissevian, Inez Milholland (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain) – As a student at Vassar College, she is said to have enrolled two-thirds of its students into a campus suffrage organization – suffragist lecturer, organizer of rallies, participant in parades – member, Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (renamed Women’s Political Union; Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage; and, then, National Woman’s Party) – died of pernicious anemia in 1916, at the age of thirty, while campaigning in the western states against Democratic candidates because of their failure to support suffrage Brooklyn Booth, Clare, see Brokaw Booth, Mary Louise – secretary at Seneca Falls, NY, 1855 suffrage convention and at 1860 New York City convention – Booth’s c. 1829 house has been restored by the Yaphank Historical Society and is open to the public East Main Street, Yaphank Booth residence 8 Brannan, Eunice Dana (Mrs. John Winters Brannan) Mrs. Brannan was the daughter of Charles Anderson and
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