The biographical records contained in this book are partly my motherÕs work partly my own. It was, therefore; only after the suffrage victory was won and when she was past the age of eighty-five that she turned her attention to
writing some notes about her life. As her strength gradually grew less these notes became fragmentary repetitious and in-consecutive. In the summer of l926, only a few months before
her death, she asked me to help her arrange hat she had written.