twenty-five years and
of the State Woman Suffrage Association eighteen years.

[74] Dr. William Tindall, of Washington, has the records to prove that
in 1838, when the people of Georgetown voted on a proposal to withdraw
from the State of Maryland, 63 women cast their ballots. As early as
1867, through the efforts of Lavinia C. Dundore, a large equal rights
society of men and women was organized in Baltimore, which continued
until 1874 and was represented in the national conventions by its
president, Mrs. Dundore. A Baltimore paper of April 4, 1870, says: "A
petition, asking for the right of suffrage and political justice, was
presented to the House of Delegates, signed by Eliza S. White, Lavinia
C. Dundore, Ellen M. Harris and 150 other ladies. It was referred to
the Committee on Federal Relations."

[75] For full account of the convention see Chapter VI, Volume V.

[76] The History is indebted for this chapter to Miss Clara Turnbull
Waite, vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore.

[77] Additional names of women who held office or were prominent in
work of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore or the State Equal
Franchise League of Maryland are Drs. Fannie Hoopes, Lillian Welsh,
Mary Sherwood, Florence Sabin, Claribel Cone, Nellie Mark; Mesdames
Pauline Holme, George Lamb, S. Johnson Poe, J. Williams Lord, Frank
Ramey, C. C. Heath, George H. Wright, J. H. Webb-Peploe, Jacob M.
Moses, Mary N. Parry and W. W. Emmart; Misses Mary Bartlett Dixon,
Elisabeth Gilman, A. Page Reid, Henrietta Norris, Romaine McIlvaine
and Emma Weber.

[78] Among these directors, active members of the city committee,
chairmen of standing committees and devoted workers not elsewhere
mentioned were Mesdames Edwin Rouse, Jr., chairman of the city
committee; Caleb Athey, Harvey Bickel, C. C. Peffer, J. W. Putts, John
Parker, A. Morris Carey, C. C. Heath; Esther Moses and Esther Katz.

CHAPTER XX.

MASSACHUSETTS.[79]

From the beginning of the present century the Massachusetts Woman
Suffrage Association, organized in 1870, steadily gained in membership
year after year. Its annual conventions for many years were held in
Boston in January and those of the New England Woman Suffrage
Association in May, when the two united in a great Festival, which
generally took place in Faneuil Hall. The day sessions usually were
held in the rooms of the New England Women's Club, the evening
sessions in some large place, in 1901 at