ford, Mrs. Mary W. Southwick, H. M. N. Bush,
M. A. Bush, A. E. Prescott, Vassalboro; A. R. Dunham and fourteen
others; R. C. Caldwell and eight others, Gardiner; Albert Crosby,
Mrs. S. G. Crosby, Albion; Noah F. Norton, Mercy G. Norton,
Penobscot.

[182] _President_, Benjamin Kingsbury of Portland; _Secretary_,
Miss Addie Quimby of Augusta; _Treasurer_, Mrs. W. K. Lancey of
Augusta. Among the vice-presidents are the Hon. S. F. Hersey of
Bangor, and John Neal of Portland. An Executive Committee was
elected, which included John P. Whitehouse, Hon. Joshua Nye, Neal
Dow, jr., and other leading citizens.

[183] Miss Louisa Coffin, Dalton; Miss Annie Lincoln, Mapleton;
Miss Ada DeLaite, Littleton.

[184] The following officers were elected: _President_, Hon.
Benjamin Kingsbury of Portland; _Chairman Executive Committee_,
Hon. Joshua Nye; _Corresponding Secretary_, Mr. C. A. Quinby,
Augusta; _Recording Secretary_, Mrs. W. D. Eaton, Dexter;
_Treasurer_, Mrs. W. K. Lancey, Pittsfield.

[185] Those invited were Wendell Philips, Harriet K. Hunt, Caroline
H. Dall and Susan B. Anthony.

[186] Mr. Reed's report is published in full in our annual report,
of 1884, which can be obtained of Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.
Y.

[187] See page 104.

CHAPTER XXXV.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Nathaniel P. Rogers--First Organized Action, 1868--Concord
Convention--William Lloyd Garrison's Letter--Rev. S. L. Blake
Opposed--Rev. Mr. Sanborn in Favor--_Concord Monitor_--Armenia S.
White--A Bill to Protect the Rights of Married Men--Minority and
Majority Reports--Women too Ignorant to Vote--Republican State
Convention--Women on School Committees--Voting at School-District
Meetings--Mrs. White's Address--Mrs. Ricker on Prison
Reform--Judicial Decision in Regard to Married Women,
1882--Letter from Senator Blair.

A State that could boast four such remarkable families as the
Rogers, the Hutchinsons, the Fosters, and the Pillsburys, all
radical, outspoken reformers, furnishes abundant reason for its
prolonged battles with the natural conservatism of ordinary
communities. Every inch of its soil except its mountain tops, where
no man could raise a school-house for a meeting, has been overrun
by the apostles of peace, temperance, anti-slavery, and woman's
rights in succession.

To the early influence of Nathaniel P. Rogers and his revolutionary
journal, _The Herald of Freedom_, we may trace the g