er Huckel, Associate Congregational
Church; Rabbi Adolf Guttmacher, Madison Avenue Temple; Marshall V.
McDuffie, North Avenue Baptist Church; Ezra K. Bell, First English
Lutheran Church; Edward W. Wroth, All Saints' Episcopal Church.

[47] Although Miss Anthony lived only one month longer every day was
made happy by the thought that those who would carry on the work would
have the great assistance of this fund. A committee was formed the
following summer with Miss Garrett as chairman and Dr. Thomas as
treasurer and the work of securing subscriptions was begun on Miss
Anthony's birthday the next year, 1907. By May 1 the $60,000 had been
subscribed and put at the disposal of the national board of officers.
The sum was completed by a subscription of $20,000 from "a friend" and
not until after the death of Mrs. Russell Sage, who had headed the
list with $5,000, was it known that she was the donor. Mrs. Sage had
made generous subscriptions at other times. The full list of donors
will be found in Miss Anthony's Biography, page 1401.

CHAPTER VII.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1907.

The six preceding chapters have described at length and in detail the
annual conventions of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
in order to show that those who took part in them were the
representative women and men of the day. Their addresses, reports of
committees, resolutions adopted and other proceedings demonstrate the
wide scope of the activities of this organization, which from 1869 was
the foundation and the bulwark of the vast movement to obtain equality
of rights for women. The Thirty-ninth convention met in Music Hall,
Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Feb. 14-19, 1907, and received a cordial
welcome to the State of Lincoln, who in 1836 was almost the first
public man in the United States to declare in favor of suffrage for
women.[48] Lorado Taft's bust of Susan B. Anthony, its pedestal
draped in the Stars and Stripes, adorned the platform and a portrait
of Lucy Stone looked down on the speakers in serene benediction. The
national president, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, was in the chair and
addresses of welcome were made for Illinois by Mrs. Ella S. Stewart,
president of the State Equal Suffrage Association; for the churches by
the Right Rev. Samuel E. Fallows, Presiding Bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal Church; for the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
by Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry, its corresponding secretary. Mrs