Chapter 12

PENNSYLVANIA.

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 Colleges and Hospitals; John W. Forney Vindicates their Rights--Ann Preston--Women in Dentistry--James Truman's Letter--Swarthmore College--Suffrage Association Formed in 1866, in Philadelphia--John K. Wildman's Letter--Judge William S. Pierce--The Citizens' Suffrage Association, 333 Walnut Street, Edward M. Davis, President--Petitions to the Legislature--Constitutional Convention, 1873--Bishop Simpson, Mary Grew, Sarah C. Hallowell, Matilda Hindman, Mrs. Stanton, Address the Convention--Messrs. Broomall and Campbell Debate with the Opposition--Amendment Making Women Eligible to School Offices--Two Women Elected to Philadelphia School Board, 1874--The Wages of Married Women Protected--J. Edgar Thomson's Will--Literary Women as Editors--The Rev. Knox Little--Anne E. McDowell--Women as Physicians in Insane Asylums--The Fourteenth Amendment Resolution, 1881--Ex-Gov. Hoyt's Lecture on Wyoming 444