Chapter 6

CONNECTICUT.

Prudence Crandall--Eloquent Reformers--Petitions for Suffrage--The Committee's Report--Frances Ellen Burr--Isabella Beecher Hooker's Reminiscences--Anna Dickinson in the Republican Campaign--State Society Formed October 28, 29, 1869--Enthusiastic Convention in Hartford--Governor Marshall Jewell--He recommends More Liberal Laws for Women--Society Formed in New Haven, 1871--Governor Hubbard's Inaugural, 1877--Samuel Bowles of the _Springfield Republican_--Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Chaplain, 1870--John Hooker, Esq., Champions the Suffrage Movement--The Smith Sisters--Mary Hall--Chief-Justice Park--Frances Ellen Burr--Hartford Equal Rights Club 316