On Aug. 16, Lieutenant Governor Hochul joined Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and the members of Tioga Women Lead on the Courthouse steps in Owego to announce Tioga County’s Women’s Suffrage events taking place on Saturday.

The public is invited to attend this celebration in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote in New York. The event takes place at the courthouse from noon until 4 p.m. 

Included will be tours of the courthouse and re-enactments from this historic period of time. The historic Tioga County Courthouse starting at noon and running continuously for two hours. Tours will depart every ten to 15 minutes on a first-come, first-serve basis.

For more information, visit the Facebook page, Broome-Tioga Suffrage Anniversary Committee.

You can read the full story about the upcoming event by clicking here. 

To read a history of how Tioga County women actively participated in gaining the right to vote, you can click here. 

Names mentioned through the years

Susan B. Anthony’s Visit in 1894

Mrs. John J. Belknap of Campville (gave a prayer)

Mrs. William H. Hutchinson of Owego (gave opening address)

Mrs. Anna Carpenter of Owego (chosen as secretary of the constitutional campaign convention)

Efforts from 1912 to 1918

Speech by Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse (October 1912)

Mrs. William G. Ellis (at the wheel of a car)

Mrs. John G. Pembleton of Tioga Centre (also in car)

Mrs. J. C. Latimer of Tioga Centre (also in car)

Miss Christina MacKenzie of Elmira (also in car)

Talk by Miss Jane Olcott of VA (July 1914)

Received Miss Olcott: Mrs. Jonathan C. Latimer; Mrs. Clarence Collen, II; Mrs. George I. Hansell

Mrs. William G. Ellis; Miss Ida Storrs; Miss Lillian Lovejoy; Miss Helen LaMonte

Ushers: Misses Elizabeth Burt; Frances Barton; Viola Walker; Sybil Wallis; Freda Eastman; Elizabeth Eastman; Josephine Shields

Singing by Mrs. Charles R. Dean accompanied by Miss Constance Storrs

Miss Florence Yothers (provided a room for Miss Olcott)

Suffrage Convention April 1915

Mrs. Cornelius G. Seabring of Spencer (district leader)

Mrs. Charles Ott of Waverly (vice-leader)

Mrs. William G. Ellis of Owego (secretary)

Mrs. Max Fisher of Spencer (treasurer)

Mis Pauline Angell of Waverly (former leader now press representative of the state organization; stationed at 5th Avenue)

Mrs. Helen Owens of Ithaca (opening remarks)

Suffrage Convention May 1917

Rev. Warren C. Taylor of the Baptist Church (speaker)

Rev. Arnold W. Bloomfield of the Presbyterian-Union Church (speaker)

Mrs. Clarence S. Mallery of Owego (speaker)

Miss Lillian Huffcut of Binghamton (called meeting to order)

Mrs. C. O. Seabring of Spencer (district leader)

Miss Helen Bush of Spencer (Secretary and Treasurer)

Mrs. C. S. Mallery of Owego; Mrs. N. P. Neff of Richford; Mrs. C. H. Ott of Waverly (assistant assembly district leaders)

Suffrage Party Convention May 1918

Mrs. Cornelius O. Seabring of Spencer (Chairman)

Mrs. Clarence S. Mallery of Owego; Mrs. Seward Baldwin of Waverly; Mrs. Albert Lawton of Spencer; Mrs. Dora Neff of Richford (multiple Vice-Chairman)

Miss Bertha L. Ketchum (secretary)