d, New York, $200; Mrs.
Susan Look Avery, Kentucky, $250; Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller and Miss
Anne Fitzhugh Miller, New York, $300; Mrs. Kemeys, New York, $100;
Mrs. Alfred Lewis, New York, $50; Mrs. Raymond Robins, Illinois, $50;
Misses Isabel and Emily Howland, New York, $20; Mrs. Sarah L. Willis,
New York, $20; Mrs. Isabella B. Hooker, Conn., $25; Equal Suffrage
Association, Mass., $100; Mrs. H. S. Luscomb, Mass., $100; "A Friend,"
$200.

The net contribution of the National to the State Association during
the campaign, deducting the expense of entertaining the 1909 national
convention, was about $30.

CHAPTER XLVII.

WEST VIRGINIA.[202]

In 1895 when the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association was
organized through the effort of the National American Association,
with Mrs. Jessie G. Manley president, nine clubs were formed in the
northern part of the State but only those in Fairmont and Wheeling
remained in existence after 1900. The first president of the Fairmont
Club was the mother of Mrs. Manley, Mrs. Margaret J. Grove, who with
her sisters, Mrs. Corilla E. Shearer and Miss Ellen D. Harn, all still
living, aged 89, 90 and 92, led in the early suffrage work in the
State, and Mrs. Mary Reed of Fairmont also was a pioneer. Little
public work was done until an active suffrage movement was inaugurated
in Virginia and in 1912 Miss Mary Johnston came to Charleston and
organized a club. One was formed in Morgantown and these four
constituted the State association until the amendment campaign of
1916.

The following have served as State presidents: Mrs. Beulah Boyd
Ritchie, 1900-1903; Mrs. M. Anna Hall, 1904; Mrs. Anne M. Southern,
1905; Dr. Harriet B. Jones, 1906; Mrs. May Hornbrook, 1907-1910; Mrs.
Allie Haymond, 1911-1912; Miss Margaret McKinney, 1913; Mrs. J. Gale
Ebert, 1914-1915; Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, 1916; Mrs. John L. Ruhl,
1917-1920.[203] Annual meetings were held as follows: 1900, December
1, Fairmont; 1904, August 11, Moundsville; 1905, October 27, Fairmont;
1906, October 26, Wheeling; 1907, November 8, Wheeling; 1908, October
29, Fairmont; 1909, October 30, Wheeling; 1911, October 27, Fairmont;
1913, October 24, Wheeling. During these years practically all that
was done was to have speakers of note from time to time and a
resolution for woman suffrage introduced in the Legislature whenever
possible.

In 1904 a new city charter was prepared for Wheeling and an effort was
made to have it prov