proved that this association should
ask to co-operate as an auxiliary with the National American Woman
Suffrage Association and at the following annual convention of that
body in Washington, D. C., it was represented by five delegates. In
December, 1902, Mrs. Chapman, president of the New York association,
addressed a meeting in Philadelphia and a branch was formed there,
which in less than three months numbered about 200 members, with Susan
W. Janney as president. The Baltimore Yearly Meeting quickly followed
with a paid-up membership of 85, which increased the following year to
114, with Elizabeth B. Passmore president.

In 1904 the entire dues-paying membership was over 500. The New York
association sent letters to members of the State Senate and Assembly
bearing on woman suffrage bills and was active in all State suffrage
campaigns. Much energy was devoted to public meetings and literature.
The Philadelphia and Baltimore associations worked mainly along
educational lines. This year the Baltimore branch sent out 4,000
leaflets--For Equal Rights. The Philadelphia association reorganized
in 1905, with an enrolled instead of a paid membership. Their Yearly
Meeting is a large body with a membership scattered over Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland....

The associations continued their work, holding meetings and "round
tables," especially at times of annual and biennial conferences, one
of the most effective of these meetings being held at Saratoga in
1914, addressed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance. The subject was kept constantly
under consideration by the Society of Friends at large and in local
gatherings, such as monthly and quarterly meetings, where it was
brought up in regular order as one of the departments of philanthropic
labor or social service to be reported upon. Each branch held a
meeting at the time of its Yearly Meeting. A business meeting of the
whole association (branches and general membership) was always held at
the Biennial Conference of the seven Yearly Meetings. Usually a fine
speaker was engaged to address the conference at a public meeting
numbering from 800 to 1,500. The Superintendent of the Department for
Equal Rights in the General Conference was always the president of the
Friends' Equal Rights Association as a whole and made the contact
between the Society of Friends and the National American Woman
Suffrag