Eleanor McWilliams Chamberlain

Eleanor "Ella" McWilliams Chamberlain (died 1934)[1] was an American women's rights pioneer who has been credited with starting the women's suffrage movement in Florida.[2][3] She has been described as the most prominent women's rights pioneer in Florida during the 1890s. In 1870, she married Fielding P. Chamberlain. They moved from Ella's home state of Iowa to Florida in 1881 or 1882, and settled in Tampa. After attending a women's rights convention in 1892, she began using the newspaper column that she wrote to further the cause. She soon organized a group of about 100 women who joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Chamberlain and her husband attended the association's national convention in 1895. When she moved away, the movement essentially collapsed until 1913.[4][5] She also advocated for a "mother's pension" to support widows raising children.[6] A bust of her is on the Tampa Riverwalk.[7]

References
  1. Weatherford, Doris (2004). A History of Women in the United States: Alabama-Illinois. Grolier Academic Reference. ISBN 9780717258062.
  2. Weatherford, Doris (2012-01-20). Women in American Politics: History and Milestones. SAGE. p. 25. ISBN 9781608710072.
  3. "St. Cloud Women Got The Vote 2 Years Before 19th Amendment Passed". Orlando Senteniel. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  4. Doris, Weatherford (2015). They Dared to Dream. University Press of Florida. p. 175 – via Project MUSE.
  5. "Women's Hall of Fame". Hillsborough County. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  6. "Hillsborough County Women's Hall of Fame Inducts Senator Arthenia Joyner, Nancy Ford and Eleanor McWilliams Chamberlain". Tampa Bay Newswire. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  7. "Eleanor McWilliams Chamberlain". Tampa Riverwalk. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
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