| In 1897, Margaret White Houston, representing the Equal
Suffrage Club of Sussex County, spoke eloquently to the Delaware
Constitutional Convention in favor of including woman's suffrage
in the new document. Her words, and those of other Delaware
suffragists, fell on deaf ears. Women did not get the vote at
that time. A lifelong Sussex Countain, Margaret White married
Robert G. Houston in 1888. The family lived in Georgetown. In
addition to suffrage, Mrs. Houston was also involved in
Prohibition and in women's clubs. She helped found the
Georgetown New Century Club and was a president of the Delaware
State Federation of Women's Clubs.