nd counties of the State.

FOOTNOTES:

[194] No woman in so many varied fields of action has more steadily
and faithfully labored than Mrs. Nichols, as editor, speaker,
teacher, farmer, in Vermont, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio,
Kansas, and California where she spent the closing years of her
life; and though always in circumstances of hardship and privation,
yet no annual convention was held without a long letter from her
pen, uniformly the most cheerful and able of all that were
received. A great soul that seemed to rise above the depressing
influences of her surroundings! The last letter she ever wrote us
was in January, 1885, a few days before she passed away. See Volume
I., page 171.

[195] Officers of the Vermont Woman Suffrage Association:
_President_, Hon. Charles Reed, Montpelier. _Vice-presidents_, Hon.
John B. Hollister, Bennington; Hon. Seneca M. Dorr, Rutland; Rev.
Addison Brown, Brattleboro'; Col. Lynus E. Knapp, Middlebury; Hon.
James Hutchinson, jr., West Randolph; Hon. Russell S. Taft,
Burlington; Hon. A. J. Willard, St. Johnsbury; Hon. H. Henry
Powers, Hyde Park; Hon. Jasper Rand, St. Albans. _Recording
Secretary_, Henry Clark, Rutland. _Corresponding Secretary_, Albert
Clarke, St. Albans. _Treasurer_, Albert D. Hager, Proctorsville.
_Executive Committee_, Hon. C. W. Willard, Montpelier; Hon. Charles
Reed, Montpelier; George H Bigelow, Burlington; Newman Weeks,
Rutland; Hon. Jonathan Ross, St. Johnsbury; Rev. Eli Ballou, D. D.,
Montpelier.

[196] Following the convention at Montpelier, meetings were held at
St. Albans, Northfield, Barre, Burlington, St. Johnsbury,
Brattleboro', Rutland, Fairhaven, Castleton, Springfield and
Bellows Falls.

[197] Among the speakers were Mr. Garrison, Mrs. Howe, Mrs. Stone,
Leo Miller, Mrs. Churchill, Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. Campbell, Dr.
Sarah Hathaway, Mrs. Bowles, Mr. Blackwell, Hon. A. J. Williard.
Mr. Taft, Mr. Clark, Judge Carpenter, Mr. Ivison, the Rev. Messrs.
Brigham, Eastwood, Brown and Emerson.

[198] The fourteen who favored the bill were: Mr. Bigelow of
Burlington, one of the leading editors in the State; Mr.
Butterfield of Grafton, one of the most experienced legislators in
the State; Mr. Carpenter of Northfield, who is known to be right on
all questions that concern humanity, Mr. Colton of Irasburgh, now
serving his second term in the Senate; Mr. Estey of Brattleboro',
the manufacturer of the celebrated cottage organ; Mr. Houghton of
North Benni