Twenty-Third NY State Suffrage Convention

On November 10–11, 1891, the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA) held its twenty-third annual convention in Auburn at the Burtis Opera House. Built as the Academy of Music, it had operated under the Burtis name for about two years. (Nineteenth-century practice was to use the singular, woman's; later practice was to use the plural, women's.) Speakers included the nationally prominent suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, and Lillie Devereaux Blake; Jean Brooks Greenleaf, then the president of NYSWSA; and Mary Seymour Howell and Mary Pearson.