National Societies held a
convention in Washington under the name of the National-American
Association and this body has continued its annual meetings as one
organization.

FOOTNOTES:

[135] The History is indebted for this chapter to Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, editor of _The Woman's Journal_, Boston, Mass. For early
accounts of this organization see History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. II,
Chap. XXVI. [Editors of History.

[136] Mrs. Helen Ekin Starrett, principal of Highland Park Academy;
Miss Ada C. Sweet, head of the Pension Office in Illinois; Mrs. Mary
B. Willard, of the _Union Signal_; Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, of
the _Inter-Ocean_; Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, Helen K. Pierce, Mrs. W. O.
Carpenter, Mrs. H. W. Fuller, Mrs. George Harding, Mrs. Catherine V.
Waite, Mrs. Elizabeth Loomis and the Rev. Florence Kollock composed
the entertainment committee.

[137] Mr. Wood, in many public addresses made during the first Kansas
amendment campaign in 1867, attributed this action of the Kansas
Constitutional Convention to Mrs. Stone; but it is certain that other
influences contributed to it. [For a further account of these, see
History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, p. 185. Eds.]

[138] Massachusetts gave to this fund $472; Pennsylvania, $201.50;
Indiana, $146; New Jersey, $80; Connecticut, $50; New Hampshire, $25;
Ohio, $10; Delaware, $5; New Brunswick, Canada, $10.

[139] Vice-presidents, ex-officio: Mrs. E. N. Bacon, Me.; Mrs. Armenia
S. White, N. H.; Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden, Vt.; William I. Bowditch,
Mass.; Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, R. I.; Mrs. Emily P. Collins, Conn.;
Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, N. Y.; Kate A. Browning, N. J.; Miss Mary
Grew, Penn.; Mrs. Mary A. Heald, Del.; Mrs. Frances M. Casement, O.;
Mary F. Thomas, M. D., Ind.; Miss Ada C. Sweet, Ill.; Lucy C.
Stansell, Mich.; Sylvia Goddard, Ky.; Mrs. A. E. Dickinson, Mo.;
Lizzie D. Fyler, Ark.; Jennie Beauchamp, Tex.; Emma C. Bascom, Wis.;
Narcissa T. Bennis, Ia.; Gertrude M. McDowell, Neb.; the Hon. Charles
Robinson, Kan.; Gen. Theodore F. Brown, Col.; Jennie Carr, Cal.;
Abigail Scott Duniway, Ore.; Martha G. Ripley, M. D., Minn.; the Hon.
J. W. Hoyt, Wy. Ty.; Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, Tenn.; Mrs. Cadwallader
White, Ga.; the Hon. Roger S. Greene, Wash. Ty.; Mary J. Ireland, Md.;
Caroline E. Merrick, La.

Executive Committee: Lucy Stone, chairman; Mrs. C. A. Quinby, Me.; Dr.
J. H. Gallinger, N. H.; Laura Moore, Vt.; Mrs. Judith W. Smith, Mass.;
Mrs. S. E. H. Doyle,