In a life paralleling Caroline Miller's, Mary Bentley Thomas (1845-1923) played a major role in the struggle for women's rights, often hand in hand with Susan B. Anthony. Succeeding Miller as president of the state Suffrage association, she entered the national arena, and with dramatic success. In one famous instance she wrote the governors of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho--states already enjoying suffrage--inquiring about the results. Her letters, and the favorable responses they evoked, were published with telling effect in respected newspapers and journals from Boston to St. Louis.