, Mrs. J. S.
McCreery; _Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. Mary N. Adams.

[397] Frank Allen.

[398] Lucy Stone, Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Cutler, Mrs.
Livermore, Anna Dickinson, Phoebe Couzins, Mrs. Swisshelm, Miss
Hindman and Mrs. Campbell, from abroad; Mesdames Savery, Callanan,
Gray, Pittman, Boynton, Harbert, Brown, and Messrs. Fuller,
Pomeroy, Rutkay, Cole, and Maxwell, of the city, have each in turn
come to the aid and encouragement of the society's work.

[399] For information regarding Des Moines I am indebted to Mary A.
Work, one of the most able advocates of woman suffrage in the
State.

[400] _President_, Porte Welch; _Secretary_, Mattie Griffith
Davenport.

[401] _President_, Amelia Bloomer; _Vice-Presidents_, C. Munger
and Mary McPherson; _Recording Secretary_, Ada McPherson;
_Corresponding Secretary_, Will Shoemaker; _Treasurer_, E. S.
Barnett.

[402] Its officers were: _President_, Nettie Sanford; _Secretary_,
Mrs. Fred. Baum; _Treasurer_, Mrs. Dr. Whealen.

[403] _President_, M. W. Stough; _Secretary_, Lizzie B. Read. Mrs.
Read was president of the State society in 1873, and Mrs. C. A.
Ingham in 1881.

[404] _President_, Hon. John E. Goodenow; _Vice-Presidents_, Nancy
R. Allen, Mrs. M. J. Stephens, Mrs. A. B. Wilbur; _Secretary_, Mrs.
E. D. Stewart; _Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. Julia Dunham;
_Treasurer_, Mrs. T. P. Connell; _Executive Committee_, Mrs. S.
Stephens, Mrs. Julia Doe, Mrs. Polly Hamley, Dr. J. H. Allen, W. S.
Belden.

[405] _President_, Henry O'Connor; _Vice-Presidents_, Amelia
Bloomer, Nettie Sanford, Mrs. Frank Palmer, Joseph Dugdale, John P.
Irish; _Secretary_, Belle Mansfield; _Corresponding Secretary_,
Annie C. Savery; _Executive Committee_, Mary A. P. Darwin, Mattie
Griffith Davenport, Mrs. J.L. McCreery, Rev. Augusta Chapin, Hon.
Charles Beardsley.

[406] Assistant postmaster-general under President Arthur.

[407] Mary A.P. Darwin, professor of the college, and Hon. Charles
Beardsley, editor of the _Hawkeye_, Burlington; Hon. Henry
O'Connor, Muscatine; Mary N. Adams, Dubuque; Annie C. Savery, Des
Moines; Amelia Bloomer, Council Bluffs; A.P. Lowrie, Marshalltown;
Mrs. Beavers, Valisca. Hannah Tracy Cutler of Illinois, was the
leading speaker; Edwin A. Studwell of New York representing _The
Revolution_, Col. George Corkhill, Joseph Dugdale, Rev. Mr. Cooper,
Mt. Pleasant, were also in attendance.

[408] The speakers were Mr. Rutkay, Mrs. Sanford, Mrs. Bloomer,
M