elected and continued to serve until 1913. Then
on her refusal to accept another term she was elected auditor and held
the office until her death in 1918. In 1912 ex-presidents were put on
the executive board and Mrs. Bacon regularly attended the meetings and
aided the newer workers with her experience and advice until her death
in 1918. The income for 1910 had been $400, the largest ever
received.

The convention of 1911, held in Bridgeport, showed great advance in
organization and general activity. Miss Pierson was elected State
organizer and an automobile tour of one of the eight counties was
undertaken in August under her spirited leadership. Thirty-one
meetings were held and fourteen new leagues were formed and affiliated
with the State association. The income was reported at the convention
as having been $3,966 and the enrolled membership had increased to
over 5,000. At this convention Mrs. Hepburn declined re-election on
account of family duties and Mrs. William T. Hincks, president of a
new and active league at Bridgeport, was chosen. Mrs. Hepburn remained
a useful member of the board.

In 1912 the annual convention was held at New Haven, where after much
difficulty Miss Pierson had organized a flourishing Equal Franchise
League with Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard president. A Political Equality
Club had existed here from before the opening of the century but its
membership was small and it made no appeal to a large number of women
who were ready to come out for suffrage. It seemed better, as in
Hartford in 1909, to form a new organization with younger leaders.

The annual convention in 1913 was held in Hartford. Mrs. Hincks
refused re-election and Mrs. Hepburn was again chosen, with Mrs. M.
Toscan Bennett as treasurer. The work accomplished during the year, as
reported at the convention, had included the collection of 18,000
names to a petition to the Legislature for full suffrage for women,
while campaigns had covered the smaller cities and towns and resulted
in the organization of all the State except one county.

The convention of 1914 again took place in Hartford and Mrs. Hepburn,
with practically the whole board, was re-elected. The work of the year
included a "ward campaign," in which a beginning was made of
organizing on the lines of a political party, automobile campaigns
completing the organization of the whole State; the first suffrage
parade took place in Hartford on May 2. Political work had resulted i