Annie Maude Norton

Annie Maude Norton Battelle (January 26, 1865 – March 23, 1925) was a suffragette and philanthropist.

Battelle, a Republican, became very active politically after the death of her husband in 1918. She was at protester at the Republican National Convention in 1920 to lobby for endorsement of women’s suffrage before a presidential nomination was made.

She was president of the Women's Republican Club of Ohio as well as a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention of 1924.

She helped establish Battelle Memorial Institute, leaving her fortune of about $2 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to the organization when she died.

Battelle was born Annie Maude Norton in Birmingham, Alabama, to Samuel Edwin Norton and Julia Justina Alston Norton. They had one son Gordon Battelle, who died in 1923. Battelle died of heart disease in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 1925.