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Title: History of woman suffrage
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898 Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931
Subjects: Women Women Women Mormon women
Publisher: New York, Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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federations of labor, trade unions, universities,normal schools, churches, meetings of all kinds and withoutnumber. In the two Dakotas she spoke twenty-nine times. Shereferred to her visit to Jefferson City, Mo., her luncheon with thewife of Governor Frederick D. Gardner, the suffrage meetingwhich put the State capital in a ferment and caused the politiciansto sit up and take notice and the Governors declaration forwoman suffrage. Mrs. Miller said of the work during the fivemonths when she was chairman of the Congressional Committee: After mature consideration the board decided that, for various rea-sons, it was not wise to move the headquarters from New York toWashington but that more spacious quarters should be found thanthe office here where the efficient lobby work that had already beendone could be followed up and supplemented by a social atmosphere.Finally we found our present home, a large private mansion at 1626Rhode Island Avenue, just off of Scott Circle. It was taken for a
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