Chapter 23

NEBRASKA.

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 Bloomer Addresses the House--Gen. Wm. Larimer, 1856--A Bill to Confer Suffrage on Women--Passed the House--Lost in the Senate--Constitution Harmonized with the Fourteenth Amendment--Admitted as a State March 1, 1867--Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony Lecture in the State, 1867--Mrs. Tracy Cutler, 1870--Mrs. Esther L. Warner's Letter--Constitutional Convention, 1871--Woman Suffrage Amendment Submitted--Lost by 12,676 against, 3,502 for--Prolonged Discussion--Constitutional Convention, 1875--Grasshoppers Devastate the Country--_Inter-Ocean_, Mrs. Harbert--Omaha _Republican_, 1876--Woman's Column Edited by Mrs. Harriet S. Brooks--"Woman's Kingdom"--State Society Formed, January 19, 1881, Mrs. Brooks President--Mrs. Dinsmoor, Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Brooks, before the Legislature--Amendment again Submitted--Active Canvass of the State, 1882--First Convention of the State Association--Charles F. Manderson--Unreliable Politicians--An Unfair Count of Votes for Woman Suffrage--Amendment Defeated--Conventions in Omaha--Notable Women in the State--Conventions--_Woman's Tribune_ Established in 1883 670