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Rh Club (London). Has often appeared before state legislatures and congressional committees on behalf of woman suffrage. Aided woman suffrage in England in 1908.

Among many letters of appreciation one has been received from Hon. Burton L. French. Hon. Burton L. French was a particular friend of Mrs. Clara B. Colby, and a strong advocate of the women's cause in Congress. He introduced the Federal Suffrage Bill in the House of Representatives on several occasions. He spoke for it at committee hearings and made an admirable address in its behalf on the floor of Congress. From his most cordial letter we quote the key note, "When the history of the struggle of the women of the United States for suffrage shall have been written, it will contain a record of the work of Clara Bewick Colby, who, as citizen, as corresponding secretary of the Federal Suffrage Association, as lecturer, did heroic work in behalf of the cause of suffrage. She was earnest in her purpose, intense in her convictions, capable in all she undertook."

I knew Mrs. Colby for twenty years and I never heard her make an unkind criticism of a fellow worker. She was wholly unselfish, single minded, without desire for personal