ording secretary, Miss Lillia Floyd Donnell; treasurer, Dr. Emily
N. Titus; auditor, Miss Eliza C. Tappan; superintendent press work,
Miss Vetta Merrill.

Among others who have served are Mesdames Lillian M. N. Stevens, Etta
Haley Osgood, Winnifred Fuller Nelson and Helen Coffin Beedy; Miss
Louise Titcomb and Dr. Jane Lord Hersom.

[298] Among those who have been instrumental in securing better
legislation for the women of the State may be mentioned the Hon.
Thomas Brackett Reed, Judge Joseph W. Symonds, Franklin Payson;
ex-Governors Joseph Bodwell, Frederick Robie, Henry B. Cleaves and
Llewellyn Powers; Mesdames Augusta Merrill Hunt, Margaret T. W.
Merrill and Ann Frances Greeley; Dr. Abby Mary Fulton and the Misses
Cornelia M. Dow, Charlotte Thomas and Elizabeth Upham Yates.

CHAPTER XLIV.

MARYLAND.[299]

If but one State in the Union allowed woman to represent herself it
should be Maryland, which was named for a woman, whose capital was
named for a woman, and where in 1647 Mistress Margaret Brent, the
first woman suffragist in America, demanded "place and voyce" in the
Assembly as the executor and representative of her kinsman, Lord
Baltimore. Her petition was denied but she must have had some gallant
supporters, as the archives record that the question of her admission
was hotly debated for hours. After the signal defeat of Mistress
Brent, there seems to have been no demand for the ballot on the part
of Maryland women for about 225 years.[300]

In 1870 and '71 Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Lucy Stone and Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe lectured in Baltimore and there was some slight agitation of
the subject.

Immediately following the national suffrage convention of 1883, in
Washington, Miss Phoebe W. Couzins of Missouri addressed a large and
enthusiastic audience at Sandy Spring. Soon afterwards Madame Clara
Neymann of New York spoke in the same place and was cordially
received. She and Mrs. Caroline Hallowell Miller were invited about
this time to make addresses at Rockville. Mrs. Miller also spoke on
the rights and wrongs of women at the Sandy Spring Lyceum.

In 1889 Mrs. Miller invited some of her acquaintances to meet at her
home in Sandy Spring to form a suffrage association. Thirteen men and
women became members, all but one of whom belonged to the Society of
Friends.[301] This year Maryland was represented for the first time at
the national suffrage convention by a delegate, Mrs. Sarah T. Miller.
She