Timeline for Women's Suffrage (1846-1905) 1846 - State votes down Married Women's Property Rights.  1848 - State gets voted in with no women's rights in constitution.  1852 - Sherman Miller Booth spoke out for women. He wanted them to speak at Temperance meetings. He used his paper "The Freeman" to tell the story.  1855 - Mathilde Anneke has Lucy Stone tour the state. Good impact as women organized a petition drive for a suffrage amendment. - Christopher L. Sholes submits three petitions for woman suffrage to the Wisconsin Senate. - Order of the Knights of Good Templar inducted women into regular ranks and officially allotted them half of lodge offices.  1857 - Emma Brown starts "Wisconsin Chief" and becomes first woman publisher and editor in Wisconsin to last.  1861-1865 - Women joined together in the north to form Sanitary Commissions to aid soldiers. These networks would continue after the war.  1861-1866 - Because many men were off to war, many women had to work in the fields to keep farms going or in the stores to keep them out. In order for many state colleges to economically survive, they opened their doors to women. Carroll was the first state college to let women in in 1863. 1868-1869 - Many Wisconsin women joins the "Ladies Loyal League" which serves abolitionism. This group was headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Many Wisconsin women, however, are against this group because they support woman suffrage. 1869 - Stanton and Anthony first toured Wisconsin. The tour caused a "suffrage commotion" in Wisconsin, where "the women, both German and American, awoke to action and organized a local suffrage society at Janesville" variously called the Equal Rights Association.   - First women graduate from UW.  1874 - Lavinia Goodhall became the first woman in Wisconsin to be admitted to the bar.  - By 1874, three-fourths of temperance contracts, pamphlets, and other publications were written by women, and most were published by women's organizations.  1882 - Harry Blackwell and wife Lucy Stone invited to suffrage convention in Madison to give a kickstart to the suffrage campaign. In all, 55 prominent Wisconsin men and women inssue the call in Madision in September. -By 1882, forty papers ran women's temperance columns in Wisconsin. 1884 - School suffrage bill passes allowing women to vote in school affairs. 1885 - Another WWSA convention occurs but is hit with disarray and arguing. 1890 - Theodora Winton Youmans become associate editor of the Waukesha Freeman. By 1890, half a dozen women were involved in newspapers and the numbers were increasing. 1890 - Women start meeting in "Women's Club" in order to become involved in improving their cities and towns. One of their accomplishments includes the start of the Wisconsin Library Association. 1897 - Campaigns start to have women vote in municiple matters and have appointments to political posts at all governmental levels. 1898 - The state of Wyoming enters the union with full woman suffrage prompting WIsconsinites to step up their campaign. -Theodora Winton Youmans is appointed to a state-level post on a semicentennial committee. 1904 - After numerous election successes, Wisconsin women became increasingly confident in state politics bolstered by the work of Belle Case LaFollette. In the years that followed 1905, many brave women and men stepped forward to answer the call for woman suffrage. People such as Robert LaFollette and Belle Case LaFollette. It wouldn't be until 1919 that women gained what they were asking for; however, many women could rejoice in the fact that the state of Wisconsin was the first to ratify the 19th amendment.n.  [Timeline] [WWSA] [Prominent Figures] [The '48ers] [The Republican Party] [Woman's Suffrage] [Sources and Credits] [Wisconsin Mosaic Home] [The Activists Home]