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After women had been enfranchised the State and the Boston suffrage
associations conducted citizenship schools in every county to instruct
them in their new duties.
LAWS. [The very complete digest of the legislation of the past twenty
years in relation to women and children, especially to those in the
industries, prepared by Mrs. Teresa A. Crowley, attorney at law, and
filling nine typewritten pages, has to be omitted for lack of space.]
FOOTNOTES:
[79] The History is indebted for the first part of this chapter to
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, an officer of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1912 inclusive; president of the New
England Woman Suffrage Association from 1911, and president of the
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association almost continuously from 1909
to 1920; and for the second part of the chapter to Mrs. Teresa A.
Crowley, chairman of the Legislative Committee of the State
association from 1909 for many years.
[80] Later presidents were Mrs. Page, Mrs. Teresa A. Crowley, Mrs.
Robert Gould Shaw and Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes. When Mrs. Park was
called to Washington to become national congressional chairman in 1916
Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham succeeded her as executive secretary.
[81] At the annual meeting of the M. A. O. F. E. S. W. on May 1,
officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. G. Howland Shaw;
vice-presidents, Mrs. J. H. Coolidge, Miss Anna L. Dawes, Mrs. Charles
D. Homans, Miss Agnes Irwin, Mrs. Henry M. Whitney; corresponding
secretary, Miss L. C. Post; recording secretary. Miss Elizabeth
Johnson; treasurer, Mrs. James M. Codman; executive committee, the
officers and Miss Sarah H. Crocker, Mrs. Gorham Dana, Mrs. Charles
Eliot Guild, Miss Katherine E. Guild, Miss Elizabeth H. Houghton, Miss
Sarah E. Hunt, Mrs. Francis C. Lowell, Mrs. J. H. Millet, Mrs. B. L.
Robinson, Mrs. R. H. Saltonstall, Miss E. P. Sohier and Mrs. Henry M.
Thompson.
[82] Additional speakers through the summer were Miss Margaret Foley,
Miss Gertrude Y. Cliff, Miss Edith M. Haynes, Mrs. Marion Craig
Wentworth, Miss Florence Luscomb, Miss Katherine Tyng, Miss Alfretta
McClure and Miss Rosa Heinzen, the last four college girls.
[83] Much help was given for years by the steady financial support of
Mrs. R. D. Evans, Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw and Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw. The
last named paid the rent of the suffrage headquarters during many
years and her heirs continued this assistance for some time after her
death in 1917.
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