Chapter 30

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--MARYLAND--DELAWARE--KENTUCKY--TENNESSEE--VIRGINIA--WEST VIRGINIA--NORTH CAROLINA--SOUTH CAROLINA--FLORIDA--ALABAMA--GEORGIA.

Secretary Chase--Women in the Government Departments--Myrtilla Miner--Mrs. O'Connor's Tribute--District of Columbia Suffrage Bill--The Universal Franchise Association, 1867--Bill for a Prohibitory Law Presented by Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, 1869--A Bill for Equal Wages for the Women in the Departments, Introduced by Hon. S. M. Arnell, 1870--In 1871 Congress Passed the Organic Act for the District Confining the Right of Suffrage to Males--In 1875 it Withdrew all Legislative Power from the People--Women in Law, Medicine, Journalism and the Charities--Dental College Opened to Women--Mary A. Stewart--The Clay Sisters--The School of Pharmacy--Elizabeth Avery Meriwether--Judge Underwood--Mary Bayard Clarke--Dr. Susan Dimock--Governor Chamberlain--Coffee-Growing--Priscilla Holmes Drake--Alexander H. Stephens 808