or ten since then, a
number of them re-elected. In 1913 Colorado's first woman Senator,
Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, was elected. She was the second in the equal
suffrage States, Mrs. Martha Hughes Cannno of Utah the first. In 1917
Mrs. Agnes Riddle was elected.

FOOTNOTES:

[19] The History is indebted for this chapter to Katherine Tipton
(Mrs. George E.) Hosmer, president of the State Equal Suffrage
Association. Mrs. Hosmer wishes to express her obligation for
assistance in securing data to the past presidents and executive
officers of the association.

[20] Among those who worked in the first decade of this century were:
Helen L. Grenfell, Mary C. C. Bradford, Ellis Meredith, Hattie E.
Westover, Mrs. John F. Shafroth, Minnie J. Reynolds, Gail Laughlin,
Drs. Elizabeth Cassady, Jean Gale, Mary Long, Mary E. Bates, Rose Kidd
Beere and Sarah Townsend; Lillian C. Kerns, Martha A. Pease, Alice
Polk Hill, Mrs. A. C. Sisk, Mrs. A. L. Cooper, Bessie Lee Pogue, Helen
Wixson, Anna M. Scott, Carrie Marshall, Nora B. Wright, Laura
Holtzschneider, Hattie Howard, Rosetta Webb, Sarah Purchase, Helen
Bedford, Inez Johnson Lewis, Eva Rinkle, Evangeline Heartz, Louisa M.
Tyler, Mary Nichols, Helen Miller, Louise Blanchard, Margaret Keating,
Lillian Hartman Johnson.

[21] The day before a joint session of the two Houses had been held
that they might listen to the reading of a poem written for the
occasion by one of the oldest members of the association, Mrs. Alice
Polk Hill.

CHAPTER VI.

CONNECTICUT.[22]

In 1901 the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association had been in
existence for thirty-two years, and, except for the first two years,
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who had led the movement for its
organization, had been its president. Closely associated with her
during all these years was Miss Frances Ellen Burr, who was recording
secretary from 1869 to 1910. Under her leadership and with the aid of
her husband, John Hooker, an eminent lawyer, legislation had been
secured giving mothers equal guardianship of their children and wives
full control of their property and earnings. The only concession that
had been made to the steady demand of the women for suffrage was the
grant of the School franchise in 1893 and eligibility to the school
boards. Interest in woman suffrage was at a low ebb when the new
century opened. The membership of the association had decreased and at
the State convention in Hartford in 1901 the treas