York organized the American Suffragettes, a short-lived society, with
Miss Martha Heide as president, and it arranged a mass meeting in
Milwaukee with Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst of England as the principal
speaker.

[209] A unique automobile tour was made by Mrs. McCulloch and her
husband, Frank McCulloch, both prominent lawyers in Chicago, and their
four children, who devoted their annual vacation in the summer of 1912
to a tour through Wisconsin, the eldest son driving a big car, Mr. and
Mrs. McCulloch making suffrage speeches at designated points and the
three younger children enjoying the outing.

[210] After 1913 annual conventions were held as follows: 1914,
Milwaukee, speakers at evening meeting, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence of
England and Rosika Schwimmer of Hungary; 1915, Milwaukee; 1916
(postponed to January, 1917, at the time of the legislative session),
Madison; 1917, Milwaukee, Mrs. Nellie McClung of Canada speaker; 1918,
no convention because of the war.

[211] The officials from 1913, not already mentioned, were as follows:
Vice-presidents: Miss Zona Gale, Dr. Jean M. Cooke, Mrs. Wm. Preston
Leek, Mrs. Victor Berger, Mrs. Isaac Witter, Mrs. Frank Thanhouser,
Miss Harriet F. Bain; corresponding secretaries: Mrs. W. M. Waters,
Mrs. Joseph Jastrow, Mrs. James L. Foley, Mrs. Glen Turner, Mrs.
Charles H. Mott, Mrs. H. F. Shadbolt; recording secretaries: Mrs. H.
M. Holton, Mrs. A. J. Rogers; treasurers, Miss E. E. Robinson, Mrs.
Harvey J. Frame; auditors: Miss Gwendolyn B. Willis, Miss M. V. Brown,
Mrs. Louis Fuller Hobbins, Miss Amy Comstock, Mrs. A. W. Schorger,
Mrs. H. A. J. Upham, Mrs. Sarah H. Van Dusen. Mrs. A. J. Birkhauser.

CHAPTER XLIX.

WYOMING.[212]

Wyoming was the pioneer Territory and the pioneer State to give full
suffrage to women. It is an interesting fact that the women did not
find it necessary to have a Territorial or State Suffrage Association,
or even a convention except the one during the campaign for Statehood
in 1889-90. This rare situation is explained by the fact that
universal suffrage came to the women in the newly organized Territory
in 1869 without any general demand for it but through the efforts of a
very few progressive men and women. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume
IV, page 994.] When the Constitutional Convention was preparing for
Statehood in 1889, holding its sessions in Cheyenne, the women of the
Territory held a convention there in order to pass resolutions ask