MacAlarney, Ladson Hall, Helen Arny, Grace Ballard, Mary
Calhoun, Louise Hall, Leona Huntzinger, Doris Long, Adella Potter,
Eudora Ramsey, Jeanette Rankin, Ethel Rankin and Mary Sleichter.

[155] The list of the nearly seventy chairmen is unavoidably omitted
for want of space.

[156] Several of the presidents of the association were at first
vice-presidents; others were Mrs. Mary B. Luckie, Mrs. Anna M. Orme,
Mrs. William I. Hull, Dr. Ruth A. Deeter, Miss Lida Stokes Adams, Miss
Mary E. Bakewell, Mrs. Maxwell K. Chapman, Mrs. Robert Mills Beach,
Mrs. H. Neely Fleming, Miss Maud Bassett Gotham, Dr. M. Carey Thomas,
Mrs. Lewis L. Smith, Mrs. Edward E. Kiernan, Mrs. James P. Rogers,
Mrs. Edwin Linton; secretaries: Mrs. Helen M. James, Miss Lybretta
Rice, Miss Jane Campbell, Mrs. Mary R. Newell, Mrs. Mary C. Morgan,
Miss Katharine Collison, Miss Caroline Katzenstein, Miss Mary
Norcross, Miss Helen L. McFarland, Miss Helen C. Clark, Mrs. Gifford
Pinchot; treasurers: Mrs. Margaret B. Stone, Mrs. Luckie, Miss Matilda
Orr Hays, Mrs. Robert K. Young, Mrs. Robert Mills Beach, Miss Martha
G. Thomas; auditors: Mrs. Ellen H. Thomas, Mrs. Mary F. Kenderdine,
Mrs. Minora F. Phillis, Miss N. M. Crumpton, Mrs. Reba Artsdalen, Mrs.
Robert Coard, Miss Ellen L. Thomas, Mrs. H. Wilfred DuPuy; directors:
Mrs. Edward E. Kiernan, Miss Henrietta Baldy Lyon, Mrs. Emma H.
McCandless, Mrs. E. S. H. McCauley, Mrs. Richard S. Quigley, Mrs.
George A. Piersol, Mrs. Clifton A. Verner, Mrs. Daniel F. Ancona.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

RHODE ISLAND.[157]

The opening of the 20th Century found the Old Guard of the Rhode
Island Woman Suffrage Association still in the van. Some of those who
were charter members when the organization was formed in 1868 were in
active service, enriching the work by their wide experience in the
past and clear vision for the future. Mrs. Ardelia Cooke Dewing, a
woman of unusual ability, had taken the presidency at the death of
Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace in 1899 and continued in the office until
1905. The association never failed to hold an annual convention in the
autumn in Providence, where reside about half the population of the
State. In 1901, the usual propaganda was conducted by public and
parlor meetings, the circulation of literature and the May banquet,
for years a regular social function. A special impetus was given this
year by the presence of Miss Susan B. Anthony at the convention. The
following morning she