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laws, committees, local secretaries, etc., were discussed and arranged for 

 and the work of the Society was fairly launched. That its influence was to 

 be permanent and far-reaching might have been predicted from the long list 

 of distinguished people who were its officers as follows: 



President 

 William Brewster. 



Vice-Preside nts : 



Mrs. Louis Agassiz, 

 Pres. of Radcliffe College. 



Mrs. John L. Gardner. 



Mrs. Charles Head. 



Mrs. Augustus Hemenway. 



Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell. 



Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, 

 Pres. of Wellesley College. 



Miss Sarah Orne Jewett. 



Mrs. Clara T. Leonard. 



Mrs. Endicott Peabody. 



Mrs. John C. Phillips. 



Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman. 



Mrs. John E. Thayer. 



Miss Wharton. 



Mrs. Henry Whitman. 



Hon. Charles Francis Adams. 



Sylvester Baxter. 



William Sturgis Bigelow, M.D. 



William S. Bryant, M.D. 



J. E. Chamberlin. 



Philip A. Chase. 



Samuel Henshaw. 



Henry L. Higginson. 



Hon. George F. Hoar. 



Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D. 



Hon. John Lowell. 



Prof. Edward S. Morse. 



Charles S. Sargent. 



Horace E. Scudder. 



Bradford Torrey. 



Secretary and Treasurer: 

 Miss Harriet E. Richards. 



Mrs. Frank Bolles. 

 Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot. 

 Miss Minna B. Hall. 



Directors: 



OuTRAM Bangs. 



Ernest Amory Codman, M.D. 



James Arnold Lowell. 

 George H. Mackay. 

 J. B. Millet. 

 Charles S. Minot, Ph. D. 



One hundred and ten Local Secretaries were soon appointed, scattered 

 at strategic points throughout the State. One of the first questions to 

 come before the Board of Directors was "how to influence other States to 

 start Societi(»s" and from the l)eginning every effort was made to this end 

 with most gratifying results. Before the first year was out Pennsylvania 

 organized and in 1897 New York, New Hampshire, Illinois, Maine, the 

 District of Columbia, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Colorado followed, with 

 societies already forecast in Rhode Island, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana. 



