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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER LXVII.
Vermont 957-963
Organization — Legislative action and laws — School Suffrage — Women office-holders — Education — Progressive steps.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
Virginia 964-966
Agitation of suffrage question — Laws for women — Education — Woman head of family.
CHAPTER LXIX.
Washington 967-979
Women enfranchised by Territorial Legislature in 1883 — Figures of vote — Unconstitutionally disfranchised by Supreme Court — Suffrage Amendment refused in Constitutional Convention for Statehood — Submitted separately and defeated in 1889 — Action of political conventions in 1896 — Experience in Legislature — Amendment again submitted — Campaign of 1898 — Defeated by majority less than one-half that of nine years before — Organization — Legislative action and laws — School suffrage — Office-holding — Occupations.
CHAPTER LXX.
West Virginia 980-984
Organization — Legislative action and laws — Office-holding — Education.
CHAPTER LXXI.
Wisconsin 985-993
Organization — Canvass of State — Long but successful struggle to secure School Suffrage — Decisions of Supreme Court — Laws — Women in office — Education.
CHAPTER LXXII.
Wyoming 994-1011
First place in the United States to enfranchise women — Territorial Legislature gave Full Suffrage in 1869 — People satisfied with it — Constitutional Convention for Statehood unanimously includes Woman Suffrage — Strong speeches in favor — Fight against it in Congress — Debate for amusement of present and wonder of future generations — Men of Wyoming stand firm — Finally admitted to the Union — Celebration in new State — Honors paid to women — Miss Anthony and the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw visit Cheyenne — Interesting scene — Highest testimony in favor of Woman Suffrage — Legislature of 1901 urges every State to enfranchise its women — Women on juries — Effects of woman's vote — Laws — Office-holding.