Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Newton Branch Committee.

The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women was formed on May 21, 1895 to "increase public interest in the great question of the extension of Suffrage to women, and to stimulate public opinion in opposition to it." This group was also known as Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women and later known as Women’s Anti-Suffrage Association of Massachusetts.

The parent association encouraged local groups to form and the Newton Branch Committee was formed by Newton resident Harriet Hodges Stone ( Mrs. Lincoln R. Stone) . Her husband, Lincoln Ripley Stone (born 1833 in Maine), was a physician with offices in Newton. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1854, served as a doctor in the United States Army during the Civil War, was president of the Middlesex South District Medical Society, and also served on the Newton School Board for many years. Harriet Stone was born in October of 1834 in Salem, Massachusetts, and after marriage was identified in the census as "keeping house." The Stones had 3 children, Laura P. Stone, James S. Stone, and Philip D. Stone,