ira Lincoln Phelps,
a sister of Miss Emma Willard, as officers. Their first public effort
on record was two letters to the Washington _Post_ published in 1876
and a memorial from Mrs. Dahlgren in 1878 to a Senate Committee which
was to grant a hearing to the suffragists on a Federal Amendment.

An Anti-Suffrage Committee was formed in Massachusetts in the early
'80's with Mrs. Charles D. Homans as chairman. About twenty prominent
women signed a remonstrance against a State suffrage amendment, which
was first presented to the Legislature in 1884 and each year
afterwards when there was a resolution before it for this purpose. An
Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women was
organized in Massachusetts in May, 1895, with Mrs. J. Elliott Cabot
president and Mrs. Charles E. Guild secretary; Laurence Minot,
treasurer. Executive Committee, chairman, Mrs. Henry M. Whitney. A
paper called the _Remonstrance_, started about 1890, was published
quarterly in Boston, edited for some years by Frank Foxcroft. It
ceased publication October, 1920, at which time Mrs. J. M. Codman was
editor.

In 1894, when a convention for revising the constitution of New York
State was held, Anti-Suffrage Committees were formed in Brooklyn,
April 18; in New York City, April 25; in Albany, April 28. These
committees combined to form the New York State Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage on April 8, 1895, with Mrs. Francis M. Scott,
president. The other States in which there was an association or
committee in late years were as follows: Alabama, Connecticut,
Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, New Hampshire, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D. C., Wisconsin.

The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was organized in
New York City in November, 1911, with the following officers:
President, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge; vice-presidents, Miss Mary A. Ames,
Boston, and Mrs. Horace Brock, Philadelphia; secretary, Mrs. William
B. Glover, Fairfield, Conn.; treasurer, Mrs. Robert Garrett,
Baltimore. Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., succeeded Mrs. Dodge in July,
1917, and was followed by Miss Mary G. Kilbreth in 1920. The aim of
the association was "to increase general interest in the opposition to
universal woman suffrage and to educate the public in the belief that
women can be more useful to the community without the ballot than if
affiliated wit