Category: History - American

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III

The Dawn of the New Century--Washington Convention--Congressional Hearing--Woman's Protest--May Anniversary--Centennial Parlors in Philadelphia--Letters and Delegates to Presidential Conventions--50,000 Documents sent out--The Centennial Autograph Book--The Fourth of July--Ind...

Chapters

36. Chapter 36

Renewed Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment--Mrs. Gage Petitions for Removal of Political Disabilities--Ninth Washington Convention, 1877--Jane Grey Swisshelm--Letters, Robert Purv...

38. Chapter 38

Prolonged Discussions in the Senate on a Special Committee to Look After the Rights of Women, Messrs. Bayard, Morgan and Vest in Opposition--Mr. Hoar Champions the Measure in th...

67. Chapter 67

Women Send Members to Parliament--Sidney Smith, Sir Robert Peel, Richard Cobden--The Ladies of Oldham--Jeremy Bentham--Anne Knight--Northern Reform Society, 1858--Mrs. Matilda B...

35. Chapter 35

The Dawn of the New Century--Washington Convention--Congressional Hearing--Woman's Protest--May Anniversary--Centennial Parlors in Philadelphia--Letters and Delegates to Preside...

45. Chapter 45

Saratoga Convention, July 13, 14, 1869--State Society Formed, Martha C. Wright, President--_The Revolution_ Established, 1868--Educational Movement--New York City Society, 1870,...

37. Chapter 37

Why we Hold Conventions in Washington--Lincoln Hall Demonstration--Sixty-six Thousand Appeals--Petitions Presented in Congress--Hon. T. W. Ferry of Michigan in the Senate--Hon....

39. Chapter 39

The Woman's Hour--Lydia Maria Child Petitions Congress--First New England Convention--The New England, American and Massachusetts Associations--_Woman's Journal_--Bishop Gilbert...

51. Chapter 51

Chicago a Great Commercial Center--First Woman Suffrage Agitation, 1855--A. J. Grover--Society at Earlville--Prudence Crandall--Sanitary Movement--Woman in Journalism--Myra Brad...

78. Chapter 78

1854. Cheltenham Ladies' College commenced.... Miss Nightingale goes to Sentari; from hence may be dated the beginning of training schools for nurses, metropolitan associations...

46. Chapter 46

Carrie Burnham--The Canon and Civil Law the Source of Woman's Degradation--Women Sold with Cattle in 1768--Women Arrested in Pittsburgh--Mrs. McManus--Opposition to Women in the...

58. Chapter 58

Clara Bewick Colby--Nebraska Came into the Possession of the United States, 1803--The Home of the Dakotas--Organized as a Territory, 1854--Territorial Legislature--Mrs. Amelia B...

53. Chapter 53

Beautiful Scenery--Liberal in Politics and Reforms--Legislation for Women--No Right yet to Joint Earnings--Early Agitation--Frances Dana Gage, 1854--Mrs. Bloomer Before the Terr...

40. Chapter 40

Prudence Crandall--Eloquent Reformers--Petitions for Suffrage--The Committee's Report--Frances Ellen Burr--Isabella Beecher Hooker's Reminiscences--Anna Dickinson in the Republi...

50. Chapter 50

The First Woman Suffrage Convention After the War, 1869--Amanda M. Way--Annual Meetings, 1870-85, in the Larger Cities--Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878--A Course of Le...

61. Chapter 61

The Dawn of the New Day, December, 1869--The Goal Reached in England and America--Territory Organized, May, 1869--Legislative Action--Bill for Woman Suffrage--William H. Bright-...

65. Chapter 65

Secretary Chase--Women in the Government Departments--Myrtilla Miner--Mrs. O'Connor's Tribute--District of Columbia Suffrage Bill--The Universal Franchise Association, 1867--Bil...

48. Chapter 48

The First Soldiers' Aid Society--Mrs. Mendenhall--Cincinnati Equal Rights Association, 1868--Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital--Hon. J. M. Ashley--State Society, 1869--Mu...

69. Chapter 69

Reaching London amidst the fogs and mists of November, 1882, the first person I met, after a separation of many years, was our revered and beloved friend, William Henry Channing...

49. Chapter 49

Women's Literary Clubs and Libraries--Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone--Classes of Girls in Europe--Ernestine L. Rose--Legislative Action, _1849-1885_--State Woman Suffrage Society, 1870--...

63. Chapter 63

The Long Marches Westward--Abigail Scott Duniway--Mary Olney Brown--The First Steps in Oregon--Col. C. A. Reed--Judge G. W. Lawson--1870--The New Northwest, 1871--Campaign, Mrs....

64. Chapter 64

St. Anna's Asylum, Managed by Women--Constitutional Convention, 1879--Women Petition--Clara Merrick Guthrie--Petition Referred to Committee on Suffrage--A Hearing Granted--Mrs....

68. Chapter 68

The Woman Question in the Back-ground--In France the Agitation Dates from the Upheaval of 1789--International Women's Rights Convention in Paris, 1878--Mlle. Hubertine Auclert L...

47. Chapter 47

Women Voted in the Early Days--Deprived of the Right by Legislative Enactment in 1807--Women Demand the Restoration of Their Rights in 1868--At the Polls in Vineland and Rosevil...

52. Chapter 52

Missouri the First State to Open Colleges of Law and Medicine to Woman--Liberal Legislation--Eight Causes for Divorce--Harriet Hosmer--Wayman Crow--Works of Art--Women in the Wa...

62. Chapter 62

Liberal Provisions in the Constitution--Elizabeth T. Schenck--Eliza W. Farnham--Mrs. Mills' Seminary, now a State Institution--Jeannie Carr, State Superintendent of Schools--Fir...

59. Chapter 59

Effect of the Popular Vote on Woman Suffrage--Anna C. Wait--Hannah Wilson--Miss Kate Stephens, Professor of Greek in State University--Lincoln Centre Society, 1879--The Press--T...

42. Chapter 42

Women on School Committees--Elvira C. Thorndyke--Suffrage Society, 1868--Rockland--The Snow Sisters--Portland Meeting, 1870--John Neal--Judge Goddard--Colby University Open to G...

43. Chapter 43

Nathaniel P. Rogers--First Organized Action, 1868--Concord Convention--William Lloyd Garrison's Letter--Rev. S. L. Blake Opposed--Rev. Mr. Sanborn in Favor--_Concord Monitor_--A...

60. Chapter 60

Great American Desert--Organized as a Territory, February 28, 1860--Gov. McCook's Message Recommending Woman Suffrage, 1870--Adverse Legislation--Hon. Amos Steck--Admitted to th...

55. Chapter 55

Girls in State University--Sarah Burger Stearns--Harriet E. Bishop the First Teacher in St. Paul--Mary J. Colburn Won the Prize--Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, St. Cloud--Fourth of J...

54. Chapter 54

Progressive Legislation--The Rights of Married Women--The Constitution Shows Four Classes Having the Right to Vote--Woman Suffrage Agitation--C. L. Sholes' Minority Report, 1856...

41. Chapter 41

Rhode Island, though one of the smallest, is, in proportion to the number of its inhabitants, one of the wealthiest states in the Union. In political organization Rhode Island,...

44. Chapter 44

Clarina Howard Nichols--Council of Censors--Amending the Constitution--St. Andrew's Letter--Mr. Reed's Report--Convention Called--H. B. Blackwell on the _Vermont Watchman_--Mary...

75. Chapter 75

Governor Porter made the following novel appointment: On August 30, 1882, Mrs. Georgia A. Ruggles, from Bartholomew county, presented to Governor Porter an application for a req...

57. Chapter 57

the family, and then declares that no estate in dower is allowed to the wife upon the death of her husband. Neither has she any claim upon any portion of this land the husband,...

74. Chapter 74

The common law of England as modified by English statutes prior to the Revolution has been formally adopted either by constitutions and statutes or assumed by courts of justice...

76. Chapter 76

In the early days, long before the organization of either State or local societies, there were, besides those mentioned in the main chapter, a few earnest women who were ever re...

77. Chapter 77

We give not only the names of the delegates present at the convention of 1870, but also of a few of the most earnest friends of the cause in the several counties of the State, n...

73. Chapter 73

I. LEGISLATURE OMNIPOTENT.--Unlike the Federal constitution, the State constitution does not reserve all powers not expressly delegated. It is held by the authorities that in th...

72. Chapter 72

The proposition that the family is the basis of the State has come down through many generations, so far as I know, unchallenged; but in the sense in which it is ordinarily unde...

66. Chapter 66

We are indebted to Miss Phelps of St. Catharines and Mrs. Curzon of Toronto for the facts we give in regard to women's position in the Dominion. Miss Phelps says:

56. Chapter 56

Influences of Climate and Scenery--Legislative Action, 1872--Mrs. Marietta Bones--In February, 1879, School Suffrage Granted Women--Constitutional Convention, 1883--Matilda Josl...

71. Chapter 71

ARTICLE 3. All citizens of the United States subscribing to this Constitution, and contributing not less than one dollar annually, shall be considered members of the Association...

70. Chapter 70

Among those who sent most cordial letters of greeting, with requests that their names should be enrolled in the centennial autograph-book as signers of the woman's declaration o...

32. Chapter 32

Women Send Members to Parliament--Sidney Smith, Sir Robert Peel, Richard Cobden--The Ladies of Oldham--Jeremy Bentham--Anne Knight--Northern Reform Society, 1858--Mrs. Matilda B...

2. Chapter 2

Renewed Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment--Mrs. Gage Petitions for a Removal of Political Disabilities--Ninth Washington Convention, 1877--Jane Grey Swisshelm--Letters, Robert Pu...

27. Chapter 27

Liberal Provisions in the Constitution--Elizabeth T. Schenck--Eliza W. Farnham--Mrs. Mills' Seminary, now a State Institution--Jeannie Carr, State Superintendent of Schools--Fir...

28. Chapter 28

The Long Marches Westward--Abigail Scott Duniway--Mary Olney Brown--The First Steps in Oregon--Col. C. A. Reed--Judge G. W. Lawson--1870--The New Northwest, 1871--Campaign, Mrs....

23. Chapter 23

Clara Bewick Colby--Nebraska Came into the Possession of the United States, 1803--The Home of the Dakotas--Organized as a Territory, 1854--Territorial Legislature--Mrs. Amelia B...

12. Chapter 12

Carrie Burnham--The Canon and Civil Law the Source of Woman's Degradation--Women Sold with Cattle in 1768--Women Arrested in Pittsburg--Mrs. McManus--Opposition to Women in Coll...

4. Chapter 4

Prolonged Discussions in the Senate on a Special Committee to Look After the Rights of Women, Messrs. Bayard, Morgan and Vest in Opposition--Mr. Hoar Champions the Measure in th...

19. Chapter 19

Beautiful Scenery--Liberal in Politics and Reforms--Legislation for Women--No Right yet to Joint Earnings--Early Agitation--Frances Dana Gage, 1854--Mrs. Amelia Bloomer Lectures...

33. Chapter 33

The Woman Question in the Back-ground--In France the Agitation Dates from the Upheaval of 1789;--International Women's Rights Convention in Paris, 1878--Mlle. Hubertine Auclert...

30. Chapter 30

Secretary Chase--Women in the Government Departments--Myrtilla Miner--Mrs. O'Connor's Tribute--District of Columbia Suffrage Bill--The Universal Franchise Association, 1867--Bil...

18. Chapter 18

Missouri the first State to Open Colleges of Law and Medicine to Woman--Liberal Legislation--Harriet Hosmer--Wayman Crow--Dr. Joseph N. McDowell--Works of Art--Women in the War-...

8. Chapter 8

Women on School Committees--Elvira C. Thorndyke--First Suffrage Society organized, 1868, Rockland--Portland Meeting, 1870--John Neal--Judge Goddard--Colby University Open to Gir...

14. Chapter 14

The First Soldiers' Aid Society--Mrs. Mendenhall--Cincinnati Equal Rights Association, 1868--Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital--Hon. J. M. Ashley--State Society, 1869--Mu...

11. Chapter 11

Saratoga Convention, July 13, 14, 1869--State Society Formed, Martha C. Wright, President--_The Revolution_ Established, 1868--Educational Movement--New York City Society, 1870,...

17. Chapter 17

Chicago a Great Commercial Centre--First Woman Suffrage Agitation, 1855--A. J. Grover--Society at Earlville--Prudence Crandall--Sanitary Movement--Woman in Journalism--Myra Brad...

3. Chapter 3

Why we Hold Conventions in Washington--Lincoln Hall Demonstration--Sixty-six Thousand Appeals--Petitions Presented in Congress--Hon. T. W. Ferry of Michigan in the Senate--Hon....

13. Chapter 13

Women Voted in the Early Days--Deprived of the Right by Legislative Enactment in 1807--Women Demand the Restoration of Their Rights in 1868--At the Polls in Vineland and Rosevil...

5. Chapter 5

The Woman's Hour--Lydia Maria Child Petitions Congress--First New England Convention--The New England, American and Massachusetts Associations--_Woman's Journal_--Bishop Gilbert...

26. Chapter 26

The Dawn of the New Day, December, 1869--The Goal Reached in England and America--Territory Organized, May, 1869--Legislative Action--Bill for Woman Suffrage--William H. Bright-...

16. Chapter 16

The First Woman Suffrage Convention After the War, 1869--Amanda M. Way--Annual Meetings, 1870-85, in the Larger Cities--Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, 1878--A Course of Le...

15. Chapter 15

Women's Literary Clubs and Libraries--Mrs. Lucinda H. Stone--Classes of Girls in Europe--Ernestine L. Rose--Legislative Action, 1849-1885--State Woman Suffrage Society, 1870--An...

21. Chapter 21

Girls in State University--Sarah Burger Stearns--Harriet E. Bishop, the First Teacher in St. Paul--Mary J. Colburn Won the Prize--Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, St. Cloud--Fourth of...

20. Chapter 20

Progressive Legislation--The Rights of Married Women--The Constitution Shows Four Classes Having the Right to Vote--Woman Suffrage Agitation--C. L. Sholes' Minority Report, 1856...

25. Chapter 25

Great American Desert--Organized as a Territory, February 28, 1860--Gov. McCook's Message Recommending Woman Suffrage, 1870--Adverse Legislation--Hon. Amos Steck--Admitted to th...

1. Chapter 1

The Dawn of the New Century--Washington Convention--Congressional Hearing--Woman's Protest--May Anniversary--Centennial Parlors in Philadelphia--Letters and Delegates to Preside...

9. Chapter 9

Nathaniel P. Rogers--Parker Pillsbury--Galen Foster--The Hutchinson Family--First Organized Action, 1868--Concord Convention--William Lloyd Garrison's Letter--Rev. S. L. Blake O...

6. Chapter 6

Prudence Crandall--Eloquent Reformers--Petitions for Suffrage--The Committee's Report--Frances Ellen Burr--Isabella Beecher Hooker's Reminiscences--Anna Dickinson in the Republi...

24. Chapter 24

Effect of the Popular Vote on Woman Suffrage--Anna C. Wait--Hannah Wilson--Miss Kate Stephens, Professor of Greek in State University--Lincoln Centre Society, 1879--The Press--T...

22. Chapter 22

Influences of Climate and Scenery--Legislative Action, 1872--Mrs. Marietta Bones--In February, 1879, School Suffrage Granted Women--Constitutional Convention, 1883--Matilda Josl...

29. Chapter 29

St. Anna's Asylum, Managed by Women--Constitutional Convention, 1879--Women Petition--Clara Merrick Guthrie--Petition Referred to Committee on Suffrage--A Hearing Granted--Mrs....

7. Chapter 7

Senator Anthony in _North American Review_--Convention in Providence--State Association organized, Paulina Wright Davis, President--Report of Elizabeth B. Chase--Women on School...

31. Chapter 31

Miss Phelps of St. Catharines--The Revolt of the Thirteen Colonies--First Parliament--Property Rights of Married Women--School Suffrage Thirty Years--Municipal Suffrage, 1882, 1...

10. Chapter 10

Clarina Howard Nichols--Council of Censors--Amending the Constitution--St. Andrew's Letter--Mr. Reed's Report--Convention Called--H. B. Blackwell on the _Vermont Watchman_--Mary...

34. Chapter 34