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Rh Earlier than most states, California admitted women to her colleges of medicine and law, with the result that these professions have their quota of distinguished women.

The inspiration of a new land drew women into the fields of art. In astonishing numbers singers, painters, writers of talent interpreted the new world in color and verse, in prose story, and in song.

When the participation of women in government became a subject of discussion in America, years before the Federal Constitution added the Nineteenth Amendment, California had granted suffrage to women, and women prepared for the task sat in the state legislature and worked among the supervisors of city and county government.

The achievement of California women remains a noble example and incentive to the girlhood of today. In this era where food, clothing, and shelter are more economically and excellently prepared outside the individual home, girlhood has the greatest leisure as well as opportunity to use mind and hand for a life of wide usefulness and unselfish happiness.

BEACH, Cora M. (Mrs. Alfred Holmes), born August 3, 1878, in West Oxford, Ontario, daughter of James Emerson and Sarah Ann Nunn Brown, former resident of Michigan, living in Wyoming for twenty-one years. Married to Alfred Holmes Beach. Children: Alfred Holmes, Jr., Ann Harriet, Stewart Middleton, John E., Mary Elizabeth, James Hatten. Genealogist and Historian. Before marriage, a graduate nurse and hospital superintendent. Organizing State Secretary for American Legion Auxiliary for Wyoming and 1st National Executive Committeewoman for same organization. Author: "Women of Wyoming" (1927.) State Director, Children American Revolution; State Chairman and member of National Committee, D. A. R., for Genealogical and Historical Research. Member: O. E. S., American Legion Auxiliary, D. A. R. Home: Lusk, Wyoming.

BELLAMY, Mary Godat (Mrs.) born in Richwoods, Missouri, daughter of Charles Augustus and Catherine H. Godat. Married to Charles Bellamy. Children: Benjamin Charles, Fulton Dodd. Interested in civic and Women's Clubs affairs; one of the delegates from Wyoming to Washington, D. C. Convention, 1917, which was held for the purpose of securing National suffrage for women. Served on committee to notify Woodrow Wilson of nomination. First woman elected to Wyoming State Legislature; served on several important committees. Former County School Superintendent. Owner of Graphite mine; Director, Kritni Oil Co. Several times Delegate to State and National Democratic Conventions. Member: Laramie Woman's Club, Wyoming Fed. of Women's Clubs. American Legion Auxiliary. Address: Box 438, Laramie, Wyoming.

CARTER, Flora Harden, (Mrs. C. L.), a native of Dixon, Illinois, daughter of D. G. and Mary Meese Harden, former resident of Nebraska, living in Wyoming for the last 21 years. Married to Charles Lincoln Carter. Children: Charles Hanna Carter. State chairman. International Relations Department in Wyoming Fed. of Women's Club. President of Sheridan Woman's Club. Very active in social and civic affairs. For many years a teacher and principal in the elementary schools of Sheridan. Member: Sheridan Woman's Club, American Legion Auxiliary. Home: 631 S. Jefferson St., (P. 0. Box 536). Sheridan, Wyoming.