annual conventions during the
years were the Reverends A. M. Smith, J. A. Dixon, F. E. Adams, Verdi
Mack, J. Borden Estee, George B. Lamson, T. L. Massock, E. T.
Matthison, E. M. H. Abbott, C. J. Staples, O. M. Owen, Eugene Haines,
M. T. Merrill, Charles A. Pennoyer; Hon. James F. Hooker, Dr. M. V. B.
Knox, Attorney E. B. Flynn, Colonel G. C. Childs, Professor Cox,
Martin Vilas, Mr. Woolson and F. G. Fleetwood; Mesdames Canfield,
Kidder, Flanders, Julia A. Pierce, C. J. Clark, M. V. B. Knox, Louisa
M. Slocum, Inez Campbell, Mary E. Tucker, Laura Kezer, G. E. Davidson,
M. S. Margum, E. B. Lund, Juliette Rublee, Amanda Seaver, Frances
Rastall Wyman, Frances Hand, Elizabeth Van Patten, L. M. Benedict, O.
C. Ashton, Edgar Moore, H. B. Shaw, Dr. Sue H. Howard; Misses Mary E.
Purple, Grace Robinson, Margaret Allen, Fanny Fletcher, Emilia
Houghton, Eliza Eaton, Carolyn Scott.

[187] This year Miss Lou J. C. Daniels, a liberal contributor to the
suffrage association, her family the largest taxpayers in Grafton,
where they had a summer home, was indignant to learn that the
Representative of her district had voted against the suffrage bill in
the Legislature. She sent a written protest and refusal to pay her
taxes, whereupon an official served papers on her and several shares
of stock in the Bellows Falls National Bank were attached and sold at
auction. The bank declared it illegal and declined to honor the sale.
The matter aroused discussion throughout the State and surrounding
country. When the town elected a Representative who supported woman
suffrage she considered the lesson sufficient and paid her taxes.

[188] Governor Clement retired from office Dec. 31, 1920, and was
succeeded by Governor James Hartness. The Legislature met in regular
session in January, 1921. The resolution to ratify the Federal
Suffrage Amendment was read in the House for the third time on January
28 and passed by 202 ayes, 3 noes, French, Stowell and Peake of
Bristol. On February 8 it passed the Senate unanimously.

[189] Presidents of the State association from 1900 to 1920 not
already mentioned were Elizabeth Colley; C. D. Spencer; the Rev. A. M.
Smith; Mrs. A. D. Chandler; the Hon. James Hutchinson; Mrs. Frances
Rastall Wyman; Dr. Grace Sherwood. Secretaries: Miss Laura Moore
(1883-1905); Mrs. Fatima Davidson; the Rev. Verdi Mack; the Rev. Mary
T. Whitney; Mrs. Annette W. Parmelee; Mrs. Jeannette Pease; Mrs. Annie
C. Taylor; Miss Emilia Houghton