Chapter 18

MISSOURI.

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--Adeline Couzins--Virginia L. Minor--Petitions--Woman Suffrage Association, May 8, 1867--First Woman Suffrage Convention, Oct. 6, 1869--Able Resolutions by Francis Minor--Action Asked for in the Methodist Church--Constitutional Convention--Mrs. Hazard's Report--National Suffrage Association, 1879--Virginia L. Minor Before the Committee on Constitutional Amendments--Mrs. Minor Tries to Vote--Her Case in the Supreme Court--Mrs. Annie R. Irvine--"Oregon Woman's Union"--Miss Phoebe Couzins Graduates From the Law School, 1871--Reception by Members of the Bar--Speeches--Dr. Walker--Judge Krum--Hon. Albert Todd--Ex-Governor E. O. Stanard--Ex-Senator Henderson--Judge Reber--George M. Stewart--Mrs. Minor--Miss Couzins 594