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Susan B. Anthony ( honored on coins), Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( it"s Cady not Candy, by the way) and Carrie Chapman Catt ( who only died in I believe l940) were the most famous of the Suffragettes, or...
There were! and quite a lot too. Examples: Isabella Ederhardt Mary Henrietta Kingsley Gertrude Bell Harriet Chalmers Adams and many more. There was even a society of Women explorers started in 1925.