rsh and her
little niece, and violin music by Miss Lucille du Pre.

[146] The American Woman Suffrage Association was indebted for State
reports during the past years to the following: Arkansas, Lizzie
Dorman Fyler; California, Sarah Knox Goodrich, Elizabeth A. Kingsbury,
Sarah M. Severance, Fannie Wood; Connecticut, Emily P. Collins, Abby
B. Sheldon; Dakota, Major J. A. Pickler, Alice M. Pickler; Delaware,
Dr. John Cameron; Illinois, Mary E. Holmes, Catherine G. Waugh
(McCulloch); Indiana, Florence M. Adkinson, Mary S. Armstrong, Sarah
E. Franklin, Adelia R. Hornbrook, Mary D. Naylor; Iowa, Mary J.
Coggeshall, Eliza H. Hunter, Mary A. Work, Narcissa T. Bemis; Kansas,
Prof. W. H. Carruth, Mrs. M. E. De Geer, Bertha H. Ellsworth;
Kentucky, Mary B. Clay, Laura Clay; Maine, the Rev. Henry Blanchard,
Mrs. C. S. Quinby; Massachusetts, Henry B. Blackwell, Lucy Stone;
Missouri, Rebecca N. Hazard, Amanda E. Dickenson; Minnesota, Martha
Angle Dorsett, Ella M. S. Marble, Dr. Martha G. Ripley; Michigan, Mrs.
E. L. Briggs, Mary L. Doe, Emily B. Ketcham, Mrs. H. L. Udell, Mrs.
Ellis; New Hampshire, Armenia S. White, Mrs. M. H. Ela; New Jersey,
Cornelia C. Hussey, Therese M. Seabrook; New York, Lillie Devereaux
Blake, Mariana W. Chapman, Mrs. E. O. Putnam Heaton, Anna Holyoke
Howard, Hamilton Willcox; Nebraska, Erasmus M. Correll, Deborah G.
King, Lucinda Russell, Clara Albertson Young; Ohio, Lou J. Bates,
Frances M. Casement, Orpha D. Baldwin, S. S. Bissell, Mary J. Cravens,
Mrs. (Dr.) Henderson, Mrs. M. B. Haven, Martha M. Paine, Mary P.
Spargo, Rosa L. Segur, Cornelia C. Swezey; Oregon, Abigail Scott
Duniway, W. S. Duniway; Pennsylvania, Florence A. Burleigh, Mary Grew,
Matilda Hindman; Rhode Island, Elizabeth B. Chace, Marilla M.
Brewster, Sarah W. Ladd, Mary C. Peckham, Louise M. Tyler; Tennessee,
Lida A. Meriwether, Elizabeth Lyle Saxon; Texas, Mariana T. Folsom;
Vermont, Laura Moore; Virginia, Orra Langhorne; Washington Territory,
Bessie J. Isaacs; Wisconsin, Mary W. Bentley, Alura Collins; Wyoming,
Dr. Kate Kelsey.

CHAPTER XXIII.

SUFFRAGE WORK IN POLITICAL AND OTHER CONVENTIONS.

The chapters thus far have given some idea of the endeavor to secure
the ballot for women through national suffrage conventions, which
bring together delegates from all parts of the country and send them
back to their respective localities strengthened and fortified for the
work; and which, through strong and logical arguments covering