t: Mrs. E. T. Schenck,
president of Woman Suffrage Associasion of San Francisco; Mrs. E.
Pitts Stevens, Mrs. Celia Curtis, Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. S.
J. Corbett, M. D.; Mary Collins, Mrs. E. P. Meade, M. D.; Mrs.
Alpheus Bull, Mrs. James S. Bush, Mrs. S. M. Clarke, Mrs. Judge
Shafter, Mrs. Judge Burke, Mrs. Thomas Varney, Mrs. R. B. Swain,
Mrs. Carlton Curtis, Mrs. T. Richardson, Mrs. I. W. Hobson, Mrs.
Smythe, Mrs. J. W. Stow, Mrs. C. G. Ames, Mrs. Barry and 30 others.

[501] Rev. C. G. Ames, San Francisco; Mrs. S. S. Allyn, Oakland;
Mrs. Sarah Wallis, Mayfield; Mrs. Bowman, Sacramento; Mrs.
Georgiana Bruce Kirby, Santa Cruz; Mrs. Fannie Kingsbury, San
Diego; Mrs. Elmira Eddy, Nevada; Mrs. A. A. Haskell, Petaluma;
Minnie H. McKee, Santa Clara.

[502] See Appendix to California chapter.

[503] At the close of the convention a State society was organized,
with the following officers: _President_, Mrs. A. A. Haskell of
Petaluma; _Vice-Presidents_, Mrs. J. W. McComb of San Francisco,
Mrs. Denio of Solano, Mrs. Kingsbury of San Diego, Mrs. E. J. Hall
of Los Angeles, Mrs. Eddy of Nevada, Mrs. Lewis of Sacramento, Mrs.
Kirby of Santa Cruz, Mrs. Agnes Eager of Alameda, Mrs. Watkins of
Santa Clara, Mrs. L. D. Latimer of Sonoma; _Secretary_, Mrs. Minnie
McKee of Santa Clara. _Board of Control_, Mrs. C. H. Spear, Mrs. C.
G. Ames, Mrs. Minnie Edwards, Mrs. Celia Curtis, Miss Laura Fowler,
Mr. John A. Collins, Miss Kate Atkinson, Mrs. Pitts Stevens.

[504] Mrs. Kingsbury of San Diego, Mrs. H. F. M. Brown, Addie L.
Ballou, Paulina Roberts, Mrs. C. H. Spear, Laura Cuppy Smith, Mrs.
F. A. Logan, M. D., Mrs. C. M. Churchill, John A. Collins, and a
large number of local speakers, who aided in organizing societies,
or in keeping up the interest in those already formed.

[505] Chief among its contributors were Eliza W. Farnham, Sarah M.
Clark, Amanda Simonton Page, Mrs. M. D. Strong, Fanny Green, Annie
K. Fader, Eliza A. Pittsinger, Mrs. James Neal, Mrs. Elizabeth
Williams.

[506] Among the many who have been active and faithful in the
movement for the political rights of women, whose names should be
mentioned, are: Mrs. Eliza Taylor, Mrs. O. Fuller, Elizabeth
McComb, Dr. Laura P. Williams, Mrs. Dr. White, Sallie Hart, Dr. R.
H. McDonald, Hon. Frank Pixley, and many others in _San Francisco_;
Fanny Green McDougal, _Oakland_; Mrs. Phebe Benedict, _Antioch_;
Mrs. Isabella Irwin, _San Rafael_; Mrs. Cynthia Palmer, Mrs. Emily