CHAPTER LXI.
PENNSYLVANIA.[1]
The thought of woman suffrage in Pennsylvania always brings with it the recollection of Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia, one of the four women who called the first Woman's Rights Convention, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 19, 20, 1848, and among the ablest advocates of the measure.[2]
The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association was organized Dec. 22, 1869, with Mary Grew as president.[3] There have been annual meetings in or near Philadelphia regularly since that time, and large quantities of suffrage literature have been distributed.[4] In 1892 Miss Grew resigned, aged 80, and was succeeded in the presidency by Mrs. Lucretia L. Blankenburg, who still holds this office.
The convention of 1900 took place in Philadelphia, November i, 2, and the other officers elected were vice-president, Mrs. Ellen H. E. Price; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Luckie; recording secretary, Mrs. Anna R. Boyd; treasurer, Mrs. Marl garet B. Stone; auditors, Mrs. Mary F. Kenderdine and Mrs. Selina D. Holton. Miss Ida Porter Boyer, superintendent of press work, reported that 326 newspapers in the State, exclusive of those in Philadelphia which were supplied by a local chairman, were using regularly the suffrage matter sent out by her bureau, and that the past year this consisted of 17,150 different articles.
- ↑ The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg of Philadelphia, who has been president of the State Suffrage Association since 1892.
- ↑ See History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I, p. 67.
- ↑ Officers in 1884: President, Mary Grew; vice-presidents, John K. Wildman, Ellen M. Child, Passmore Williamson; corresponding secretary, Florence A. Burleigh; recording secretary, Anna Shoemaker; treasurer, Annie Heacock; executive committee, Mary S. Hillborn, Martha B. Earle, Sarah H. Peirce, Gertrude K. Peirce, Joshua Peirce, Leslie Miller, Maria P. Miller, Harriet Purvis, Caroline L. Broomall, Deborah Pennock, J. E Case, Matilda Hindman, Dr. Hiram Corson.
- ↑ These meetings have been held in Chester, West Chester, Lancaster, Reading, Lewistown, Oxford, Kennett Square, Norristown, Scranton, Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Chester and Columbia.
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