Elizabeth McClintock Phillips, who in 1848 signed the call
for the first convention which demanded the ballot for women; J.
Elizabeth Jones of New York, a pioneer in anti-slavery and woman
suffrage; Judge E. T. Merrick of New Orleans, whose home was ever
open to the woman suffrage lecturers in that section, and who by
his eminent position as Chief Justice of Louisiana for many
years, sustained his wife in work which in earlier days but for
him would have been impossible; Eliza Murphy of New Jersey, who
bequeathed five hundred dollars to this association; Harriet
Beecher Stowe of Connecticut, who, although the apostle of
freedom in another field, yet held as firmly and expressed as
steadfastly her allegiance to the cause of woman suffrage; Dr.
Caroline B. Winslow, the earliest woman physician in the District
of Columbia, intrepid as a journalist, successful in practice, a
leader in many lines of reform; Maria G. Porter of Rochester, N.
Y.; Sarah Hussey Southwick of Massachusetts, a worker in the
cause of liberty for more than sixty years; Kate Field of
Washington, D. C.; Gov. Frederick T. Greenhalge of Massachusetts;
Dr. Hiram Corson of Pennsylvania, who stood for the full
opportunities of women in medicine, and secured the opening to
them of the conservative medical societies of Philadelphia.

The names of over thirty other tried and true friends who had passed
away during the months since the last meeting were given. Mrs. Colby
closed the memorial service by saying:

The best that comes to this world comes through the love of
liberty. These were souls of noble aspiration and undaunted
courage. We enter into their labors; we will enshrine them in the
history of the suffrage movement and bear them gratefully in our
hearts forever. May our lives be as fruitful as theirs, and when
we too pass away may we

"Join the choir invisible
Of these immortal dead who live again,
In minds made better by their presence."

Among letters received was one from Parker Pillsbury (N. H.), now 88
years old, who had spoken so eloquently in early days for the
emancipation of the slaves and the freedom of women. One of the many
excellent addresses was on the general topic Equal Rights, by Miss
Alice Stone Blackwell (Mass.), illustrated by a number of the piquant
and appropriate stories for which she