* * * *

At the annual convention of the State Equal Franchise Society in Reno
in February, 1915, the Nevada Woman's Civic League was formed as its
successor. It continued an affiliated member of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, pledged to support the Federal Amendment.
Its object was to meet a general demand of the newly enfranchised
women for information about the wise use of the ballot.

FOOTNOTES:

[112] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. O. H. Mack,
vice-president of the State Equal Franchise Society.

[113] Charter members besides those already mentioned were Mrs. J. E.
Stubbs, J. D. Layman, C. A. Jacobson, Mrs. Jennie Blanche Taylor, Mrs.
Julia F. Bender, J. E. Church, Miss Laura de Laguna, Grant Miller,
Miss Kate Bardenwerper, Mrs. W. H. Hood, Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs.
George McKenzie, Mrs. May Gill.

[114] The History is indebted for this sketch to Miss B. M. Wilson,
vice-president of the State Equal Franchise Society during the
campaign, 1912-1914.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.[115]

There has been a woman suffrage association in New Hampshire since
1868 with some of the State's most eminent men and women among its
members. In 1900 it took on new life when the New England Association,
with headquarters in Boston, sent Mrs. Susan S. Fessenden to speak and
organize. In 1901 Miss Mary N. Chase of Andover spent a month forming
societies and a conference was held at Manchester in December,
addressed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, and Henry B. and Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, editors of the _Woman's Journal_.

In 1902 the National Board engaged Miss Chase as organizer for a
month. A State Suffrage Association was formed with seven auxiliary
clubs and the following officers were elected: President, Miss Chase,
honorary president, Mrs. Armenia S. White, Concord; honorary
vice-presidents, ex-U. S. Senator Henry W. Blair, U. S. Senator Jacob
H. Gallinger; vice-president, Miss Elizabeth S. Hunt, Manchester;
secretary, Miss Mary E. Quimby, Concord; treasurer, the Rev. Angelo
Hall, Andover; auditors, Miss Caroline R. Wendell, Dover; Sherman E.
Burroughs (afterwards member of Congress), Manchester.

A convention met in Concord December 2 to revise the State
constitution and on the 4th Captain Arthur Thompson of Warner offered
an amendment which struck out the word "male" from the suffrage