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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Conference of Friends of America: Held in Indianapolis, Indiana, 1897 The committee to make arrangements for this Conference reported that they had divided the work between two sub-committees, one on local arrangements, one on program; that Timothy Nicholson was chairman of the first. James Wood of the second. James Wood, on behalf of the Committee on Program, reported that the program had been made up from suggestions sent to them, and that different ones had been invited to present papers, and it was desirable that the fullest discussion possible should follow the reading of each paper. [Printed copies of the program, for which see pages 2 and 3, had been distributed among the delegates. - Ed.] Allen Jay proposed that the program be accepted, which was united with, and Anna Taylor, who had served both preceding conferences very acceptably as stenographer, was also accepted as stenographer. After a recess of five minutes the following delegates. chosen by their respective delegations, were reported to compose a Committee on the Permanent Organization of the conference and a Business Committee, viz.: Committee on Organization. - New England, Ruth S. Murray; New York, Elmer D. Gildersleeve; Baltimore, Joseph P. Elliott; North Carolina, Mary C. Woody; Ohio, John Pennington; Indiana, Timothy Nicholson; Western, William L. Pyle; Iowa, A. H. Lindley; Canada, Robert H. Rogers; Kansas, Wm. P. Haworth; Wilmington, Levi Mills: Oregon, Jane H. Blair; California, Thomas Armstrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.