Fourteenth Monroe County Political Equality Club Convention

On Tuesday, May 2, 1905, Churchville's Union Congregational Church hosted a county-level woman suffrage convention whose guest speaker list would have done justice to one of the annual statewide conventions held by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA). (Nineteenth-century practice was to use the singular, woman's; later practice was to use the plural, women's.)

The event was sponsored by the Monroe County Political Equality Club. (Monroe is the county of which Rochester is the seat and principal city.) Political Equality Clubs served as informal local chapters of NYSWSA, sometimes organized at the county level and sometimes at the city level.

Speakers included nationally prominent suffragists Susan B. Anthony of Rochester; Anna Howard Shaw, a physician and the first woman minister ordained by her denomination;  Harriet May Mills, a leading regional suffrage activist from Syracuse; and Jean Brooks Greenleaf, a significant activist from Rochester who had been elected president of NYSWSA in 1890.