s. Ella I. Brower, Miss May Gund, Mrs. E. F. Bell,
Miss Edith Tobitt, Mrs. Kate Chapin House.

[111] In March under the auspices of the National Association suffrage
schools were held in Omaha and Lincoln. The instructors were Mrs.
Nettie R. Shuler, chairman of organization, Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, its
recording secretary, and Mrs. T. T. Cotnam and the subjects taught
were Suffrage History and Argument, Organization, Publicity and Press,
Money Raising and Parliamentary Law. Of the nineteen schools held by
the National Association in various States none was larger. By request
night schools were opened with a crowded attendance at all sessions.

CHAPTER XXVII.

NEVADA.[112]

Towards the close of the last century, through the efforts of Miss
Susan B. Anthony and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president and
vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a
Nevada association had been formed with Mrs. Frances A. Williamson
president and later Mrs. Elda A. Orr was elected. Mrs. Mary A. Boyd
was an officer. It held three or four successful conventions and had
bills before the Legislature but no record exists of any activities
after 1899.

In November, 1909, Mrs. Clarence Mackay, who had organized an Equal
Franchise Society in New York City, of which she was president, wrote
to Miss Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, professor of history in the University
of Nevada, asking if a branch society could not be organized in that
State. Later Professor Wier conferred with Mrs. Mackay in New York. In
the autumn of 1910 an agreement to assist in such an organization was
signed by a large number of prominent men and women in Reno and
finally in January, 1911, Professor Wier issued a call for a meeting
to be held in her home to form a society. Mrs. O. H. Mack, president
of the Federation of Women's Clubs, sent an invitation to each club to
be represented at this meeting. It was soon evident that it would be
too large for a private house and on January 24 a conference was held
in the law office of Counsellor C. R. Reeves to arrange for a Saturday
evening mass meeting. There were present Mr. Reeves, who was made
temporary chairman; Professor Wier, Mrs. Mack, Mrs. Henry
Stanislawsky, Professor Romanzo Adams, Judge William P. Seeds,
Assemblyman Alceus F. Price, J. A. Buchanan, Mrs. Frank Page, Mrs.
Frank R. Nicholas, who was made secretary, and J. Holman Buck, who was
elected permanent chairman. A telegram of greeting was read fro