following is a partial list of those
not mentioned elsewhere. Vice-presidents: Mrs. Ella H. J. Hill,
Concord; Mrs. Frank Knox, Manchester; secretaries: the Rev. Olive M.
Kimball, Marlboro; Mrs. Henry F. Hollis, Concord; Dr. Alice Harvie,
Concord; Mrs. Edna L. Johnston, Manchester; Mrs. Arthur F. Wheat,
Manchester; treasurers: Henry H. Metcalf, Harry E. Barnard, Frank
Cressy, Miss Harriet L. Huntress, all of Concord; auditors: Mrs.
Charles P. Bancroft, Concord; the Rev. H. G. Ives, Andover; members
National Executive Committee: Mrs. Ida E. Everett and Dr. Sarah J.
Barney, Franklin; Witter Bynner, Cornish; Mrs. Churchill.

CHAPTER XXIX.

NEW JERSEY. PART I.[118]

The first women in the United States to vote were those of New Jersey,
whose State constitution of 1776 conferred the franchise on "all
inhabitants worth $250." In 1790 the election law confirmed women's
right to the suffrage and in 1807 the Legislature illegally deprived
them of it. In 1867 Lucy Stone, then a resident of New Jersey,
organized a State society, one of the first in the country, which
lapsed after her removal to Massachusetts a few years later. In 1890 a
new State association was organized, which held annual meetings and
was active thereafter, although interest diminished after women lost
their School suffrage in 1897. [See New Jersey chapter Volume IV.]

Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, a daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, was
president from 1893 until 1900, when she declined re-election. Mrs.
Minola Graham Sexton of Orange was elected president at the annual
meeting in Moorestown in November. At that time there were but five
local societies, which she soon increased to fifteen. With her during
the five years of her presidency were the following officers:
Vice-presidents, Mrs. Susan W. Lippincott of Cinnaminson; Catherine B.
Lippincott, Hartford; corresponding secretaries, Dr. Mary D. Hussey
and Mrs. Bertha L. Fearey, East Orange, Mrs. Fanny B. Downs, Orange;
recording secretaries, Miss Jennie H. Morris, Moorestown, Miss Helen
Lippincott, Riverton; treasurer, Mrs. Anna B. Jeffery, South Orange;
auditors, Mrs. Mary C. Bassett and Mrs. Emma L. Blackwell, East
Orange; Mrs. Anna R. Powell and Mrs. Louise M. Riley, Plainfield. Mrs.
Riley had started the first woman's club in the State in Orange in
1872.

The Orange Political Study Club was the first suffrage club to join
the State Federation in 1901, which invited other clubs to hear Mrs.
Carrie