Women in Missouri History

Women in Missouri History

Women Pioneers

 

Diaries & Journals of Pioneer Women
Across the Plains
Across the Plains in '64
Diary of Emily Towell
From the Darkness Cometh the Light
or Struggles for Freedom
Sedalia's Founding Mothers: A Tribute

Women's Societies

These records are available at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Columbia, Missouri and can be borrowed through inter-library loan from your local library.
Policy of Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Inter-Library Loan
Only collections identified as being on microfilm are available through interlibrary loan. No more than two rolls of  film are loaned at a time and the standard loan term is two weeks, which is renewable if  there are no other  requests outstanding for the film.
Your local participating library can send the standard Inter-library loan request form, noting the collection  number and name, to:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection
23 Ellis Library
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65201-5149
Alpha Delta Kappa, Missouri, Chapter, Records, 1953-1974 
Altrusa Club, Columbia, Missouri, Records, 1937-1977 
American Association of University Women, Records 
American Business Women's Association, Show-Me State Chapter, Records 
Annual Conference, Women's Department of Church Extension, Methodist Episcopal Church South,  Records, 1889-1895
 

Barnette Welfare Workers Extension Club, Boone County, Missouri, Records, 1931-1973 
Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc., Sturgeon, Missouri, Scrapbook, 1943-1945 
Business and Professional Women, Columbia, Missouri, Records
 

Church Women United in Missouri, Papers 
Columbia Equal Suffrage Association and League of Women Voters, Records, 1912-1923 
Columbia Garden Club, Columbia, Missouri, Records 
Columbia League of Women Voters, Records

Daughters of the American Colonists, John Corbin Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Colonists, Columbia Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Colonists, Missouri State Society, Records 
Daughters of the American Colonists, Osage Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Arrow Rock Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Columbian Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Dorcas Richardson Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Jane Randolph Jefferson Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Kansas City Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Mexico Chapter, Records 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Missouri State Society, Records 
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, State of Missouri, Records, 1933-1970 
Domestic Science Club, Lebanon, Missouri, Yearbooks, 1908-1943

Epsilon Sigma Alpha, International, Missouri State Council, Records, 1952-1982 
Epsilon Sigma Alpha, International, Missouri State council, Records, 1963-1982

Federated Republican Women's Club, Columbia, Missouri, Papers, 1934-1969 
First Baptist Church, Clinton, Missouri, Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Minutes, 1895-1909 
Fortnightly Club, Columbia, Missouri, Records 
Grand Temple Pythian Sisters of the Grand Jurisdiction of Missouri, Records

King's Daughters, Cecile Taylor Circle, Records 
King's Daughters, Kate Thompson Circle, Records 
King's Daughters, Margaret Elwang Circle, Records 
King's Daughters Home, Mexico, Missouri, Records 
King's Daughters and Sons, Missouri Branch, Records

Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Missouri, Secretary's Book 
Ladies Union Aid Society, Records

M.M.M. Club, Fayette, Missouri, Records 
Missouri Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Records, 1932-1986 
Missouri East Conference, United Methodist Women, Records 
Missouri Extension Homemakers Association, Records 
Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs, Record Books, 1896-1933 
Missouri Press Women, Papers 
Missouri State Women's Political Caucus, Records, 1971-1980 
Missouri Women's Press Club, Treasurer's Book, 1937-1964 
Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Delta Chapter and Columbia (Missouri) Alumnae Chapter, Scrapbooks, 1920- 1980s

National Organization for Women, Columbia (Missouri) Chapter, Records 
National Organization for Women, Green Hills Area Chapter, Chillicothe, Missouri, Records 
National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Missouri, Columbia Committee, Records, c.1928-1976

P.E.O. Sisterhood, Missouri State Chapter, Records 
Prairie Grove Baptist Church, Columbia, Missouri, Records, 1874-1955 
The Readers, Columbia, Missouri, Papers, 1925-1978

Shakespeare Club, Clinton, Missouri, Minutes, 1892-1911 
Smithton United Methodist Church, Smithton, Missouri, Records, 1865-1954 
Social Study Club, Columbia, Missouri, Records, 1920s-1980s 
Soroptimist International of Springfield, Missouri, Records, 1940s-1980s 
Tuesday Club, Columbia, Missouri, Records, 1921-1977

United Daughters of 1812, Missouri State Chapter, Scrapbooks 
United Daughters of 1812, Missouri State Society, Records 
United Daughters of 1812, Reverend Finis Ewing Chapter Jefferson City, Missouri, Records 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Dames Chapter, Records 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, John S. Marmaduke Chapter, Scrapbooks 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division, Records 
United Methodist Women of the Missouri United Methodist Church, Columbia, Missouri, Records, 1940s-1970s 
United States Daughters of 1812, Missouri State Society, Records 
University of Missouri, Admission of Women Centennial 
University of Missouri, Young Ladies' Philalaethean Society, Record Book, 1888-1895

Wednesday Study Club, Columbia, Missouri, Minutes, 1908-1935 
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Auxvasse, Missouri, Records, 1907-1920 
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Columbia, Missouri, Record book, 1884-1888 
Women's Auxiliary to the Boone County (Missouri) Medical Society, Records, 1970s-1980s 
Women's Political Caucus, Columbia, Missouri, Papers 
Women's Society of Christian Service, Methodist Church Records, 1879-1971 
Women's Progessive Farmers Association of Missouri, Records, 1921-1985 

Further Reading

Caldwell, Dorothy J., "Carry Nation, a Missouri girl, won fame as a Kansas crusader," Missouri Historical Review,  LXIII:4, [Jul'69] 461-489.

Dains, Mary K., "Women Pioneers in the Missouri Legislature," Missouri Historical Review, LXXXV:1, [Oct'90], 40-52.

Dains, Mary K., "Forty Years in the House: a composite portrait of Missouri women legislators," Missouri Historical Review, LXXXVII:2, [Jan'93], 150-167.

Flynn, Jane F., Kansas City Women of Independent Minds, [Kansas City: Fifield Publishing Co., 1992], 171 pp.

Miller, Sally M., "Kate Richards O'Hare: progression toward feminism," Kansas History, 7:4, 263-279 [winter  1984-1985].  


Resources

The Amazing Nelle E. Peters

The Fair Women of Missouri

Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing about Their Lives, 1820-1920

Women's History Collection at Western Historical Manuscript Collection, St. Louis

Women in the Victorian Era

The Women of the Clubs: 1890-1920