Caroline Churchill

Caroline Nichols Churchhill
Suffragist, Publisher
1833-1926
INDUCTED 1988

Caroline Nichols Churchill was the “Queen Bee” of the Queen City, when women’s suffrage and populist reform were the state’s most stinging issues.

Her notorious newspapers, The Antelope and the Queen Bee were the first to be edited and published by a woman in Denver. The maverick editor kept the woman’s suffrage campaign pollinated for over a decade before the measure finally came to full bloom, when Colorado women’s full voting rights were passed by popular referendum in 1893.

“Come to Colorado and cast in your lot, here the sun shines brightest and there is hope for all women . . .Come ye sinners poor and needy, come to Colorado now, this shall be the land for women!” — Caroline Nichols Churchill, 1893