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Vice Regent for New York. New York, July 20th, 1858.
Ladies' Standing Committee: - Mrs. Millard Fillmore, Buffalo; Mrs. Pierre Van Cortlandt, Croton; Mrs. William H. Seward, Auburn; Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, Morrisania; Mrs. Washington Hunt, Lockport; Mrs. Samuel Stevens, Rochester; Mrs. Horatio Seymour, Utica; Mrs. Johnston Livingston, Livingston; Mrs. G. S. Silliman, Brooklyn; Mrs. Edward Cooper, New York; Mrs. Andrew J. Downing, Fishkill Landing; Mrs. George Bancroft, New York; Mrs. John Sherwood, New York; Mrs. Charles P. Daly, New York; Mrs. Marshall 0. Roberts, New York; Mrs. Lewis M. Rutherfurd, New York; Mrs. John Macgregor, New York; Mrs. Walden Pell, New York; Mrs. Edward M. Smith, Albion; Mrs. C. M. Kirkland, New York; Mrs. Herman D. Gould, Delhi.
Advisory Committee: - Hon. John A. King, Governor of New York; Mr, Samuel B. Ruggles, New York; Mr. Washington Irving, Tarrytown; Mr. Daniel S. Dickinson, Binghamton; Mr. Henry R. Selden, Clarkson; Mr. Frederic De Peyster, New York; Mr. Benson J. Lossing, Poughkeepsie; Mr. E. D. Morgan, New York; Mr. William Kelly, Rhinebeck; Mr. Erastus Corning, Albany; Mr. Robert B. Minturn, New York; Mr. Charles Augustus Davis, New York; Mr. Royal Phelps, New York; Mr. William Samuel Johnson, Ellicottville; Mr. James S. Wadworth, Geneseo; Mr. Thomas H. Bond, Oswego; Mr. Edward Huntington, Rome; Mr. Heman J. Redfield, Batavia; Mr. E. W. Leavenworth, Syracuse; Mr. David Rumsey, Bath; Mr. Daniel B. St. John, Newburgh; Mr. James 0. Putnam, Buffalo.
[What is doing in other states on this subject? Is Pennsylvania moving? - Ed].
 
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