than sixty years. When a young minister he spoke for the cause.
He signed the Call for the First National Woman's Rights Convention in
1850. He married Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell in 1855 and
prefixed an approving foreword to their published protest against the
inequalities of the marriage laws. He took part in organizing the
American Woman Suffrage Association, was its president for a year and
an officer in the New England and Massachusetts associations until his
death. For years he was a great power as a lecturer and writer and
addressed suffrage conventions in many States. Beginning with 1870 he
contributed a long series of brilliant editorials to the _Woman's
Journal_. He wrote four books on the woman question and gave 1,000
books about women to the Boston Public Library. The founder of Smith
College said she was led to leave her fortune for that purpose by
reading his article, Ought Women Learn the Alphabet?

1912. The State annual meeting was held in Boston, October 11, with an
unusually large attendance from western Massachusetts. In 1913 it met
in Boston May 27, 28. The executive secretary, Mrs. Marion Booth
Kelley, reported that 111 indoor meetings and 45 outdoor meetings had
been held in the past six months. It was voted to have a suffrage
parade in Boston the following spring. There was much doubt of the
propriety of this but when a rising vote of the women present was
taken to see how many would march almost the whole convention rose.

1914. The State annual meeting was held in Boston May 1 and 2, and
again in 1915 on May 13-15. The latter opened with a brilliant banquet
at the Hotel Somerset, attended by about 800. Mrs. Park presided and
among the speakers were ex-Governor Bass of New Hampshire, ex-Governor
Foss of Massachusetts, Dr. Hugh Cabot and Mrs. Judith W. Smith, aged
93. Suffrage clubs were reported at Wellesley, Smith and Mt. Holyoke
Colleges, the last formed largely through Miss Mildred Blodgett,
assistant professor of geology. A band concert and a mass meeting on
the Common closed the convention.

1916. At the State annual meeting in Boston May 18, 19, dues were
abolished and provision made for organizing the State along political
party lines, as recommended by the National Association. Mrs. B. F.
Pitman of Brookline gave a large reception. The treasurer reported
receipts of $67,232, expenditures of $63,483.[83]

1917. At the annual State meeting on May 10 resolutions were adopted
call