Mrs. T. M. Patterson, an early
and earnest member of the Colorado Suffrage Association, "bore
testimony" as courageously and constantly as her environment
permitted.

Mrs. Gov. McCook, as previously stated, had been the first woman
in Colorado to set the example of a spirited claim to simple
political justice for her sex, but she, alas! at the date now
reached in our sketch, was dead--in her beautiful youth, in the
first flower of her sweet, bright womanhood. Her loss to the
cause can best be measured by those who know what an immense
uplifting power is present when an intelligent man in an
influential position joins his personal and political force to
his wife's personal and social force in the endeavor to
accomplish an object dear to both.

It is a pity not to register here, however inadequately, some
outline of many figures that rise to form a part of the picture
of Colorado in 1876-7. When liberty shall have been achieved, and
all citizens shall be comfortably enjoying its direct and
indirect blessings, this book should be found to have preserved
in the amber of its pages the names of those who bravely wrought
for freedom in that earlier time. Would that one might indeed
summon them all by a roll-call! But they will not answer--they
say only: "Let our work stand for us, be its out-come small or
great."

To Dr. Alida C. Avery, however, whatever the outcome, a weighty
obligation is due from all past, present and future laborers in
this cause in Colorado. She it was who set at work and kept at
work the interplay of ideas and efforts which accomplished what
was done. Through her personal acquaintance with the immortals at
the East, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Henry B. Blackwell, she
drew them to Colorado during the campaign about to be described,
and with them came others. Mrs. M. W. Campbell and her husband
reaeppeared to do faithful service, and then came also Miss Lelia
Patridge of Philadelphia, a young, graceful, and effective
speaker,--so the local papers constantly describe her, and then
came, in the person of Miss Matilda Hindman of Pittsburg Pa., one
of the ablest women of the whole campaign. Gentle, persuasive,
womanly, she was at the same time armed at all points with fact,
argument, and illustration, and her zeal wa