[Dr. Ida Noyes McIntire]

"Dr. Ida (Noyes) Beaver McIntire was a physician and surgeon who specialized in the treatment of women's diseases. She had medical practices in Denver, Cleveland, and Everett.

She worked in the successful Washington women's 1910 campaign for suffrage, hosting meetings of the Everett Suffrage Club in her clinic.

She left the bulk of her estate to benefit retired Congregational Church ministers in Washington state."

[Excerpt from Find a Grave Memorial #41811047]

Buried in Everett, WA

Evergreen Cemetery

[Josephine Corliss Preston]

"Josephine Corliss Preston was the first woman elected to Washington state government after the state's women won the right to vote in 1910. She served as the sixth State Superintendent of Public Instruction, from 1913 to 1928. She made great strides toward the improvement of schools and won national recognition for her successful efforts to inaugurate the building of teacher's cottages, also known as teacherages, to provide private dwellings for instructors alongside the one-room schools in rural areas."

[Excerpt from HistoryLink.org Essay 9706]

Buried in Lakewood, WA

Mountain View Memorial Park

[Emily Olney French]

"Sisters Mary Olney Brown and Emily Olney French came by wagon from Iowa to the Washington Territory in 1852 and immediately began to cause trouble. They were abolitionists who wanted more than the abolition of slavery. They had the audacity to think that both the formerly enslaved and women should be able to vote. [1870] in Grand Mound, near Centralia, Emily Olney organized a group of seven women to attempt to vote. The day of the election, they served the election judges a delicious picnic, discussing the question of women’s right to vote as they ate. Only after the judges were full and contented did the women try to vote. The judges accepted their ballots, and these women became the first ever to vote in a territory-wide election."

[Excerpt from Carolyn McConnel's March 20, 2020 article on Crosscut.com]

Buried in Montesano, WA

Wynoochee Cemetary

[Laura Hall Peters]

"Now almost forgotten, Laura Etta Crane Hall Peters was widely known in her day because of her connection with major social movements of the territory and state: woman suffrage, temperance, Knights of Labor, Chinese expulsion, populism and communitarianism. [...] Few individuals in Washington were so consistently associated with so many causes. In the early 1890's, Laura became Vice President of the state Equal Suffrage Association. She was appointed by the association to lobby the legislature and help steer the [suffrage] bill through both houses. In fact, [...] she personally rescued the bill from oblivion by reminding the Speaker of the House to recognize the representative who wished to present the measure - this on the day before the end of the session."

[Excerpt from Laura Hall Peters: Pursuing the Myth of Equality by Barbara Cloud]

Buried in Port Angeles, WA

Ocean View Cemetery