ears;
Dr. Ethel E. Hurd of Minneapolis served on the board in different
capacities for twenty-two years, as corresponding secretary for four
years and recording secretary four; Mrs. Eva W. Morse, recording
secretary five years; Mrs. Victor H. Troendle, treasurer five years.
Those who served from four to ten years as directors on the State
board were: Mesdames A. T. Anderson, Julia B. Nelson, Margaret K.
Rogers, E. A. Russell, C. F. Lutz, Elizabeth McClary, A. H. Bright and
A. B. Jackson.

[97] Following are a few names not mentioned elsewhere in the chapter
of the many devoted friends and workers during the score of years: Dr.
Cyrus Northrup, Professor Maria Sanford, Judge A. C. Hickman,
Professor A. W. Rankin, Dr. Elizabeth Woodworth, Mesdames Margaret K.
Rogers, Martha A. Dorsett, May Dudley Greeley, M. A. Luley, Eva S.
Jerome, Alice Taylor, Lilla P. Clark, Milton E. Purdy, C. P. Noyes,
Adelaide Lawrence, O. J. Evans, George M. Partridge, J. W. Andrews, C.
M. Stockton, Stiles Burr, J. M. Guise, J. W. Straight; Misses Ella
Whitney, A. A. Connor, Nellie Merrill, Hope McDonald, Josephine
Schain, Blanche Segar, Cornelia Lusk, Martha Anderson (Wyman); Messrs.
C. W. Dorsett, S. R. Child, A. H. Bright.

[98] For ten years Senator Sullivan of Stillwater, and for twenty-two
years Senator W. W. Dunn, attorney for the Hamm Brewing Company of St.
Paul, worked actively against all suffrage legislation, in late years
being able to defeat bills by only two or three votes.

[99] Among legislators not mentioned who were helpful during these
years were Senator S. A. Stockwell and Representatives W. I. Norton,
H. H. Harrison, W. I. Nolan, Sherman Child, John Sanborn and Claude
Southwick.

CHAPTER XXIII.

MISSISSIPPI.[100]

From 1899 to 1906 no State convention of the Mississippi Woman
Suffrage Association was held. Mrs. Hala Hammond Butt, who was elected
president at its second annual convention in Clarksdale in 1899, acted
as president during this time but the editing of a weekly newspaper in
addition to other duties left her little time for its trying demands
at this early stage of its existence. Among the few other women
consecrated in their hearts to woman suffrage some were barred from
leadership by ill health, some by family cares, while others were
absent from the State most of the time. No definite progress,
therefore, was made during the early years of the century.

In 1901 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president