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After some years of teaching history and Latin in the University of Wisconsin, Clara Bewick, now Mrs. Colby, removed to Beatrice, Nebraska, where she became actively interested in the Woman's Suffrage movement, and was soon well known throughout the state. She took a prominent part in the great conventions arranged by Miss Anthony, and in all the efforts to secure the adoption of the measure by the legislature. In 1882 she managed the campaign for Woman's Suffrage of which Miss Anthony says in her history: "Mrs. Colby was indefatigable in her exertions, from the moment the amendment was submitted to the voters until the end of the canvass. She organized the whole campaign throughout the state and kept the speakers in motion." Elsewhere Miss Anthony said, "Oh, if we could all work as Mrs. Colby does our cause would move on." Miss Carrie Harrison, a co-worker with Mrs. Colby in the Press Association, says, "Mrs. Colby was always on the program when Miss Anthony was managing the meeting."

She assisted in organizing a state suffrage association and was for sixteen years its