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 54 2 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE The great leader of women, Susan B. Anthony, had passed away in March, 1906, her thoughts on the Oregon campaign to the very last, and, carrying out her wishes, the following group of women came at once to assist the women of the State: Dr. Shaw, Miss Clay, Miss Blackwell and Miss Gordon, national officers; her sister and niece, Miss Mary and Miss Lucy An- thony; Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer of Pennsylvania, Miss Laura Gregg of Kansas, Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford of Colorado. Miss Laughlin was already there. Added to the able Oregon workers a more efficient body of women never had charge of a suffrage campaign. Centrally located headquarters were at once opened in Portland, which soon became the Mecca for the suffragists from all over the State. The above trained campaigners sub- mitted a plan to the State board and committee, which was adopted. Women who had been named as county chairmen pre- vious to 1905 by Mrs. Duniway were used when possible as a nucleus for a county organization. Many young women who took a leading part in later campaigns got their first inspiration. One large room at headquarters was set aside in which to prepare literature for mailing and there daily went a stream of Portland women, often swelled by women from out of the city, who worked diligently from morning till night and many of them every day. These noon hours became the social events of the campaign and many business women acquired the habit of dropping in to help a bit with the work and to enjoy the delight- ful companionship of the women they found there. Mrs. Coe, the State president, was out of the city several months, returning only a few weeks before the election. Among the women outside of Portland who put their shoul- ders to the wheel were Mrs. Clara Waldo, Marion county; Mrs. Emma Galloway, Yamhill ; Dr. Anna B. Reed, Linn ; Mrs. Eliza- beth Lord, Wasco; Professor Helen Crawford, Benton ; Mrs. Henry Sangstacken, Coos ; Mrs. Imogene Bath, Washington ; Mrs. Rosemary Schenck, Lincoln ; Mrs. Minnie Washburn, Lane, and Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, Clackamas. Miss Clay, Mrs. Bradford and Miss Gregg supervised the work of State organization, going into large and small places and extending it into the remotest corners. Mrs. Boyer took up the