These statistics from 1886 were compiled from the Records of the Office of the Territorial Secretary, during the period that Watson C. Squire held the Territorial Governorship. Statistics compiled here include, among many others: County Seats, Vote totals, Vote on each side of the mountain, and names of County Surveyors and School Superintendents.
Women's Suffrage was granted in 1883 in Washington Territory by the Legislature. This compilation notes that "7330 votes were cast by women at our elections held Nov. 20, 1886. It is also estimated that there is no less than 18,000 females eligible to vote." Yet in 1887, the Washington Territorial Supreme Court overturned the 1883 law and women did not regain the right to vote in Washington until 1910.
Caption information source: "Governors of Washington Territory and Washington State," HistoryLink.org Essay 5454. Caption information source: "1883: The Territorial Legislature granted women's suffrage," Territorial Timeline website, by Legacy Washington, WA Secretary of State, retrieved from https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/timeline/timeline.aspx?s=1881&e=1889
ID Number: 1952.986.57.7
Date: 1886
Physical Description: 1 sheet : b&W ; 23.75 x 14.75 in. folded to 12 x 14.75 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, Sophie Frye Bass Collection of Northwest Americana, 1952.986.57.7
