Chapter 11

AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.

Circular Letter--Cleveland Convention--Association Completed--Henry Ward Beecher, President--Convention in Steinway Hall, New York--George William Curtis Speaks--The First Annual Meeting held in Cleveland--Mrs. Tracy Cutler, President--Mass Meeting in Steinway Hall, New York, 1870--State Action Recommended--Moses Coit Tyler Speaks--Mass Meetings in 1871 in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh--Memorial to Congress--Letters from William Lloyd Garrison and others--Hon. G. F. Hoar Advocates Woman Suffrage--Anniversary celebrated at St. Louis--Dr. Stone, of Michigan--Thomas Wentworth Higginson, President, 1872--Convention in Cooper Institute, New York--Two Hundred Young Women march in--Meeting in Plymouth Church--Letters from Louise May Alcott and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps--The Annual Meeting in Detroit--Julia Ward Howe, President--Letter from James T. Field--Mary F. Eastman Addresses the Convention. Bishop Gilbert Haven President for 1875--Convention in Steinway Hall, New York--Hon. Charles Bradlaugh Speaks--Centennial Celebration, July 3d--Petition to Congress for a XVI. Amendment--Conventions in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Washington, and Louisville 756

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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

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ANNA E. DICKINSON _Frontispiece._ CLARA BARTON page 25 CLEMENCE S. LOZIER, M. D. 153 REV. OLYMPIA BROWN 265 JANE GRAHAM JONES 313 VIRGINIA L. MINOR 409 ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER 489 BELVA A. LOCKWOOD 521 ELLEN CLARK SARGENT 553 MYRA BRADWELL 617 LUCY STONE 761 JULIA WARD HOWE 793