shment, its
work had been largely educational and a considerable public sentiment
in favor of woman suffrage had been created. Its organization and
growth center about the name of the Rev. Mary Augusta Safford, a
pioneer worker in the suffrage cause in several States. She came in
1905 to make Florida her home from Des Moines, Iowa, where she had
been pastor of the Unitarian church for eleven years. Her energy,
enthusiasm and devotion carried all before her and but for her
organization might have been delayed for years. For four years she was
the untiring State president, then Mrs. Frank Stranahan served in
1917, Miss Safford again in 1918. The following, in addition to those
elsewhere mentioned, are among those prominent in the suffrage work in
the State: Mrs. A. E. McDavid, Miss Minnie Kehoe, Pensacola; Mrs.
Susan B. Dyer, Winter Park; Mrs. H. W. Thompson, Miss C. H. Day,
Milton; Mrs. S. V. Moore, Cocoanut Grove; Mrs. Kate C. Havens, Miami;
Miss Pleasaunce Baker, Zellwood; Mrs. Grace Hanchett, Orlando.

From its beginning the association worked for the Federal Suffrage
Amendment, although it tried also to obtain from the Legislature the
submission of a State amendment to the voters. In 1915 Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, the national president, assisted Miss Safford and the other
workers in holding conventions in several congressional districts.
Many local meetings were held, much literature distributed,
resolutions secured and legislators interviewed. The Federation of
Women's Clubs, the largest organization of women in the State,
endorsed the movement. In 1916 Miss Safford went for a month to
assist the campaign in Iowa, to which the association sent $100, and
the vice-president, Mrs. Frank Tracy, directed the State work. New
leagues were formed, delegates to the national presidential
conventions were interviewed and Florida women attended those in
Chicago and St. Louis. Dr. Shaw was present at the State convention
where 550 members were reported and the distribution of 750 packages
of literature. A series of meetings was held in cooperation with the
Congressional Committee of the National Association and work in the
Legislature was done.

By 1918 a number of counties had been organized and the State
convention, encouraged by the granting of Primary suffrage to women in
Arkansas and Texas, decided to make this its legislative work for
1919, and plans were made to raise $5,000 through local conferences. A
State organizer wa