signment in Europe. Miss Irene C. Boyd, of the New York Suffrage
Party, serving in a United States base hospital with the American
Expeditionary Forces in France. Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy of Portland,
Ore., serving with the party sent by the "Fund for French Wounded."
Miss Mary W. Dewson, chairman of legislative committee of the
Massachusetts Suffrage Association, social worker in France at the
call of Major Grayson M. P. Murphy. Miss Lodovine LeMoyne, publicity
chairman of the Fall River Equal Suffrage League, serving in a United
States base hospital with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
Miss Elizabeth G. Bissell, corresponding secretary of the Iowa Equal
Suffrage Association in the French Red Cross canteen. Miss Susan P.
Ryerson, former corresponding secretary Chicago Equal Suffrage
Association, now bacteriological expert attached to base hospital in
France. Miss Lucile Atcherson, of the Ohio association, serving as
secretary to Miss Anne Morgan in her relief work in France. To these
nine will be added the names of the four doctors leading the New York
Infirmary Hospital Unit, which is now seeking the support and
authorization of the National Suffrage Association--Caroline Finley,
Mary Lee Edwards, Anna Von Sholly and Alice Gregory.

[110] See Mrs. McCormick's complete account in the last chapter on The
War Work of Organized Suffragists prepared for this volume.

[111] This Address to Congress in handsome pamphlet form was presented
to every member in person by the various women of the association's
Congressional Committee. After the Federal Amendment was submitted by
Congress it was revised, printed under the title An Address to
Legislatures, and through the mail or by the State suffrage workers
was put into the hands of every one of the 6,000 members of the
forty-eight State Legislatures.

[112] For information regarding the bequest of Mrs. Frank Leslie see
Appendix.

[113] This organization, originated by Mrs. Catt even to the name, was
effected at the national convention in St. Louis, March, 1919.

CHAPTER XVIII.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1918-1919.

For the first time since it was founded in 1869 the National American
Woman Suffrage Association in 1918 omitted its annual convention.
Suffragists were accustomed to strenuous effort but this year strained
to the last ounce the strength of all engaged in national work. The
Congressional Committee could not secure the respite of a sin