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Learn About These Extraordinary Women
Thousands of Minnesota women have fought for access to the ballot and related causes. Meet some of those women here.
Sabrie Akin
Sarah Gates Baird
Marie Bottineau Baldwin
Pat Bellanger
Isabelle Bellecourt
Fanny Brin
W. Gertrude Brown
Myrtle Cain
Florence Welles Carpenter
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
Gratia Countryman
Grace Kaercher Davis
Cora Smith Eaton
Nellie Griswold Francis
Ione Wood Gibbs
Lavinia Gilfillan
Emily Goodridge Grey
Joan Growe
Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Sue Dickey Hough
Gertrude Hunter
Ethel Hurd
Nanny Jaeger
Josie Johnson
Nellie Stone Johnson
Hannah Kempfer
Amanda Lyles
Jenova Martin
Katie McWatt
Bertha Moller
Debbie Montgomery
Julia B. Nelson
Marguerite Newburgh
Claire O’Connor
Mabeth Hurd Paige
Emily Peake
Theresa Peyton
Sarah Burger Stearns
Ruth Tanbara
Clara Ueland
Elsa Ueland
Charlotte Van Cleve
Marguerite Milton Wells