its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) – suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education Minerva Kline Brooks (1883–1929) – suffragist Gertrude Foster Brown (1867–1956) – pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it (1918) Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister Emma Bugbee (1888–1981) – journalist Emeline S. Burlingame (1836–1923) – editor, evangelist, suffragist Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party Martha Callanan (1826–1901) – activist, editor and publisher of The Standard, Iowa suffragist journal Mary Edith Campbell (1876–1962) – first woman elected to the Board of Education in Cincinnati, Ohio Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Susan E. Cannon Allen (1859–1935) – African American suffragist Marion Hamilton Carter (1865–1937) – educator, journalist, suffragist author Frances Jennings Casement (1840–1928) – voting advocate, married General John S. Casement, who lobbied for voting rights for women Nettie Sanford Chapin (1830–1901) – represented Iowa at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention of 1893 Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Mariana Wright Chapman (1843–1907) – American social reformer, suffragist Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder Mamie Claflin (1867–1929) – Nebraska temperance and suffrage leader; newspaper editor and publisher Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution Adele Goodman Clark (1882–1983) – artist, suffragist, and co-founder of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Laura Clay (1849–1941) – co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women's suffrage movement, active in the Democratic Party Mary Barr Clay (1839–1924) – first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman's organization (American Woman Suffrage Association), and the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women's rights Lillian Exum Clement (1894–1925) – first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any