Pyle. Many of the above named also filled
other offices.

Among the names which appear in the records of the years as chairmen
of committees, in addition to many of the above, are those of Miss
Helen Varick Boswell, Dr. Clara McNaughton, Miss Nettie Lovisa White,
Mrs. Katharine Reed Balentine and Miss Abby T. Nicholls.

CHAPTER IX.

FLORIDA.[32]

With the removal from the State of Mrs. Ella C. Chamberlain in 1897
and no one found to take the leadership, the cause of woman suffrage,
which was represented only by the one society at her home in Tampa,
languished for years. In 1907 John Schnarr, a prominent business man
of Orlando, circulated a petition to Congress for a Federal Suffrage
Amendment which was sent down by the National Association and obtained
numerous signatures. It is interesting to note that, from the
beginning of the suffrage movement in Florida, men as well as women
have been its active supporters.

As the years passed and the movement waxed strong throughout the
country and important victories were won, the women of Florida imbibed
the spirit of their day and generation. It became a frequent topic of
discussion and women in various places began to realize the need of
organization. On June 15, 1912, the Equal Franchise League was
organized at Jacksonville in the home of Mrs. Herbert Anderson by
herself and Mrs. Katherine Livingstone Eagan, with about thirty ladies
present. Monthly meetings were held in a room in a large new office
building given them for headquarters by the owners and forty-five
members were enrolled. Mrs. Eagan, the president, soon went to Paris
and her duties fell upon the vice-president, Mrs. Roselle C. Cooley;
the secretary, Miss Frances Anderson, and the other officers. In the
autumn two leading suffragists, who were attending the National Child
Labor Convention, were invited to address the League, but neither the
Board of Trade nor the Woman's Club would rent its auditorium for a
suffrage meeting, so they had to open a door between their
headquarters and an adjoining room and a large audience was present.
The league affiliated with the National American Suffrage
Association, which the next year sent a field worker to help in
legislative work. In 1914 it published a special edition of _The
State_, which was put into the hands of all the Florida members of
Congress and the Legislature. Mrs. Medill McCormick, chairman of the
National Congressional Committee, sent one of