following have been
officers or members of the State Executive Committees: Mrs. Ellen M.
Calder, Mrs. Elizabeth Ormsbee, Mrs. Fanny Purdy Palmer, Mrs. Ora A.
Angell, Mrs. Sarah M. Aldrich, Mrs. Betsy A. Stearns, Miss Mary K.
Conington, Mrs. Annie B. Jackson, Mrs. Catherine G. Wilbur, Mrs. Clara
F. Delaney, Mrs. Myra Phinney, Miss S. Arvilla Jewett, Mrs. Amy E.
Harris, Miss Katherine H. Austin, Mrs. Josephine Fry, Miss Eleanor B.
Green, Mrs. Margaret C. Edgren, Mrs. Victor Frazee, Mrs. Anna B.
Kroener, Miss Abby P. Gardiner, Mrs. William H. Adams, Mrs. Nathaniel
Greene, Mrs. Job Manchester, Mrs. William A. H. Comstock, Miss Mabel
Orgelman, Mrs. Edwin C. Smith, Mrs. Ava C. Minsher, Mrs. Fred S.
Fenner, Mrs. Clarence Fuller, Mrs. Frank A. Jackson, Miss Sarah E.
Doyle, Mrs. Alfred M. Coats, Miss Ellen G. Hunt and Mrs. Charles
Remington.

To these should be added a list of men to whom the workers are deeply
indebted.

[160] The _Woman Citizen_ was edited and published for ten years by
Mrs. Jeannette French, and was a valuable contribution to the movement
for woman suffrage.

[161] At the next Democratic State convention Miss Elizabeth Upham
Yates received the nomination for Lieutenant Governor amid great
enthusiasm. She was termed "a student of sociology, missionary leader,
prophet and dreamer, whose dreams have come true."--Ed.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

SOUTH CAROLINA.[162]

For a number of years there had been a suffrage association in South
Carolina with Mrs. Virginia Durant Young, editor of the Fairfax
_Enterprise_, president. Evidence of advance in public sentiment was
shown when in April, 1900, by invitation, Mrs. Young addressed 5,000
people at Rivers Bridges Memorial Association; in June when Mrs.
Malvina A. Waring made the commencement address at Limestone College
and again when Mrs. Young responded to a toast at the banquet of the
State Press Association. That same year there was lively effort to
decide which one of twenty women candidates should be elected State
librarian. Miss Lucy Barron was elected and a large number of women
engrossing clerks were appointed to share her work.

In 1902 during the Exposition a woman suffrage convention was held in
Charleston through the courtesy of the chairman of Promotion and
Publicity, Major J. C. Hemphill. Although opposed to woman suffrage he
induced the officials in charge to grant the use of the German
Artillery Hall for two nights and one meeting was held in the